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English 298: Texts in History

Key Dates for 1848 . January 24 - California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill, in Coloma, California.February 2 - Mexican

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English 298: Texts in History

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    1. English 298: Texts in History 1848: Revolution and the Rise of Women’s Writing

    3. Key Dates for 1848 January 24 - California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill, in Coloma, California. February 2 - Mexican–American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the war and ceding to the United States virtually all of what is today the southwest of that country. February 21 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto. February 22 - In Paris, revolt erupts against King Louis Philippe. Two days later he abdicates, leading to the Second Republic.

    4. http://www.hermes-press.com/marx_engels2.jpg

    5. March 4 - Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will represent the first constitution of the Kingdom of Sardinia and later of unified Italy. April 10 - A Chartist 'Monster Rally' is held in Kennington Park London, headed by Feargus O'Connor. A petition demanding the franchise is presented to parliament. May 15 - Radicals invade the French Chamber of deputies. May 18 - The first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) opens in Frankfurt, Germany. July 19 - Women's rights - Seneca Falls Convention: The 2-day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York and the "Bloomers" are introduced at the feminist convention.

    6. Great Chartist Meeting on Kennington Common, April 10, 1848, photograph taken by William Kilburn. www.jbentham.com/02-works-by-benthamites/

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    8. homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/.../aqwg87.htm

    9. July 26 - Matale Rebellion against British rule in Sri Lanka. July 29 - Irish Potato Famine - Tipperary Revolt: In Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put-down by a government police force. August 28 - Mathieu Luis becomes the first black member to join the French Parliament as a representative of Guadaloupe. September 12 - One of the successes of the Revolutions of 1848, the Swiss Federal Constitution, patterned on the US Constitution, enters into force, creating a federal republic and one of the first modern democratic states in Europe. November 4 - France ratifies a new constitution. The Second Republic of France is set up, ending the state of temporary government lasting since the Revolution of 1848.

    10. http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/irish/Irish_emigrants_Mersey.jpg

    11. November 7 - U.S. presidential election, 1848: Whig Zachary Taylor of Louisiana defeats Democrat Lewis Cass of Michigan in the first US presidential election held in every state on the same day. December 2 - Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria abdicates in favor of his nephew, Franz Josef I. December 10 - Prince Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte is elected first president of the French Second Republic.

    13. 1848 also saw (mostly failed) revolutions in: Italy/Italian States, France, Germany/German States, Habsburg Empire (Austria, Hungary, portions of Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, more), Hungary, Switzerland, Poland, Wallachia (now Romania), Schleswig (now part of Denmark), Brazil, Sri Lanka.

    14. Relevant Dates in Women’s History, 1837-1857

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