1848 Facts for Kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1810s 1820s 1830s – 1840s – 1850s 1860s 1870s
Years:	1845 1846 1847 – 1848 – 1849 1850 1851

1848 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1848 MDCCCXLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2601
Armenian calendar	1297 ԹՎ ՌՄՂԷ
Assyrian calendar	6598
Bahá'í calendar	4–5
Balinese saka calendar	1769–1770
Bengali calendar	1255
Berber calendar	2798
British Regnal year	11 Vict. 1 – 12 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2392
Burmese calendar	1210
Byzantine calendar	7356–7357
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4544 or 4484 — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4545 or 4485
Coptic calendar	1564–1565
Discordian calendar	3014
Ethiopian calendar	1840–1841
Hebrew calendar	5608–5609
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1904–1905
- Shaka Samvat	1769–1770
- Kali Yuga	4948–4949
Holocene calendar	11848
Igbo calendar	848–849
Iranian calendar	1226–1227
Islamic calendar	1264–1265
Japanese calendar	Kōka 5 / Kaei 1 (嘉永元年)
Javanese calendar	1775–1777
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4181
Minguo calendar	64 before ROC 民前64年
Nanakshahi calendar	380
Thai solar calendar	2390–2391
Tibetan calendar	阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 1974 or 1593 or 821 — to — 阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 1975 or 1594 or 822

Events

February 21: Karl Marx publishes The Communist Manifesto.
April 10: "Monster Rally" of Chartists held on Kennington Common in London; the first photograph of a crowd depicts it.
July 26: Matale Rebellion begins in Sri Lanka.
September 12: The Swiss Confederation reconstitutes itself as a federal republic.
Wyatt Earp
Otto Lilienthal
Paul Gauguin
Susie Taylor
Christian VIII. of Denmark
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
George Stephenson
Cheering revolutionaries in Berlin, on March 19, 1848, with the new flag of Germany
French Revolution of 1848: Republican riots forced King Louis-Philippe to abdicate
German National Assembly's meeting in St. Paul's Church
Battle of Pákozd in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848