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1847 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1847th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 847th year of the 2nd millennium, the 47th year of the 19th century, and the 8th year of the 1840s decade. As of the start of 1847, the ...
At the end of 1847 only 15 law schools exist in the United States. August 2 – Reuben Chapman is elected the 13th governor of Alabama defeating Nicholas Davis. August 12 – U.S. troops of General Winfield Scott begin to advance along the aqueduct around Lake Chalco and Lake Xochimilco in Mexico
After a long illness, U.S. Army Captain John Barry is forced into retirement. While stationed at Fort Ord, Barry attempts to improve relations between the United States and the Apaches, as well as encourages the enlistment of scouts to combat renegade Apaches. [140] Feb 16: John Younger kills Captain S.W. Nichols in a gunfight in Dallas, Texas ...
March 13, 1847 The District of Columbia retroceded Alexandria County back to Virginia. [85] Congress passed the act on July 9, 1846, [187] residents of Alexandria County were proclaimed by the president to have agreed to it on September 7, 1846, [188] and Virginia took possession of the land on this date. [189] May 29, 1848
1846–1847: Mormon migration to Utah. Liberal and nationalist pressure led to the European revolutions of 1848. The Wilmot Proviso unsuccessfully attempts to ban slavery in western territories acquired after the Mexican-American War.
That marked the end of the war in California. On January 13, 1847, the Treaty of Cahuenga was signed. On January 26, 1847, Army lieutenant William Tecumseh Sherman and his unit arrived in Monterey. On March 15, 1847, Col. Jonathan D. Stevenson's Seventh Regiment of New York Volunteers of about 900 men began to arrive. All of these troops were ...
The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (Irish: an Gorta Mór [ənˠ ˈɡɔɾˠt̪ˠə ˈmˠoːɾˠ]), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, [1] [2] was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole. [3]
Benjamin Franklin — George Washington The First U.S. Postage Stamps, issued 1847. The first stamp issues were authorized by an act of Congress and approved on March 3, 1847. [20] The earliest known use of the Franklin 5¢ is July 7, 1847, while the earliest known use of the Washington 10¢ is July 2, 1847.