1847

1847 (MDCCCXLVII) 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 Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1847 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1847
MDCCCXLVII
Ab urbe condita2600
Armenian calendar1296
ԹՎ ՌՄՂԶ
Assyrian calendar6597
Baháʼí calendar3–4
Balinese saka calendar1768–1769
Bengali calendar1254
Berber calendar2797
British Regnal year10 Vict. 1  11 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar2391
Burmese calendar1209
Byzantine calendar7355–7356
Chinese calendar丙午年 (Fire Horse)
4543 or 4483
     to 
丁未年 (Fire Goat)
4544 or 4484
Coptic calendar1563–1564
Discordian calendar3013
Ethiopian calendar1839–1840
Hebrew calendar5607–5608
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1903–1904
 - Shaka Samvat1768–1769
 - Kali Yuga4947–4948
Holocene calendar11847
Igbo calendar847–848
Iranian calendar1225–1226
Islamic calendar1263–1264
Japanese calendarKōka 4
(弘化4年)
Javanese calendar1774–1775
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4180
Minguo calendar65 before ROC
民前65年
Nanakshahi calendar379
Thai solar calendar2389–2390
Tibetan calendar阳火马年
(male Fire-Horse)
1973 or 1592 or 820
     to 
阴火羊年
(female Fire-Goat)
1974 or 1593 or 821

Events

January–March

April–June

  • April 5 – The world's first municipally-funded civic public park, Birkenhead Park in Birkenhead on Merseyside, England, is opened.[1]
  • April 15 – The Lawrence School, Sanawar is established in India.
  • April 16New Zealand Wars: A minor Māori chief is accidentally shot by a junior British Army officer in Whanganui on New Zealand's North Island, triggering the Wanganui Campaign (which continues until July 23).
  • April 25 – The Exmouth, carrying Irish emigrants from Derry bound for Quebec, is wrecked off Islay, with only three survivors from more than 250 on board.[2][3]
  • May – The Architectural Association School of Architecture is founded in London.
  • May 7 – In Philadelphia, the American Medical Association (AMA) is founded.
  • May 8 – The Nagano earthquake leaves more than 8,600 people dead in Japan.
  • May 8 — Bahrain's ruler Shaikh Mohamed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, signs a treaty with the British to prevent and combat the slave trade in the Arabian Gulf.
  • May 31 – Second Treaty of Erzurum: the Ottoman Empire cedes Abadan Island to the Persian Empire.
  • June – E. H. Booth & Co. Ltd, which becomes the northern England supermarket chain Booths, is founded when tea dealer Edwin Henry Booth, 19, opens a shop called "The China House" in Blackpool.
  • June 1 – The first congress of the Communist League is held in London.
  • June 9 – Radley College, an English public school, is founded near Oxford as a High Anglican institution.[4]
  • June 26 – The first passenger railway wholly within modern-day Denmark opens, from Copenhagen to Roskilde.[5]

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

  • The Great Famine continues in Ireland.
  • The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the railroad town of Goldsborough, and the Wayne county seat is moved to the new town.
  • Welfare in Sweden takes its first step with the introduction of the 1847 års fattigvårdförordning.
  • Cartier, a luxury brand in France, is founded.

Births

January

  • January 5 – Oku Yasukata, Japanese field marshal, leading figure in the early Imperial Japanese Army (d. 1930)
  • January 7 – Caspar F. Goodrich, American admiral (d. 1925)
  • January 24 – Radomir Putnik, Serbian field marshal (d. 1917)
  • January 27 – Ella Maria Dietz Clymer, American actress and author (d. 1920)
  • January 28 – Dorus Rijkers, Dutch naval hero (d. 1928)

February

  • February 3 – Warington Baden-Powell, British admiralty lawyer (d. 1921)
  • February 4 – Remus von Woyrsch, German field marshal (d. 1920)
  • February 5 – João Maria Correia Ayres de Campos, 1st Count of Ameal, Portuguese politician and antiquarian (d. 1920)
  • February 8 – Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist social reformer, first Superintendent of the West London Mission (d. 1902)
  • February 11Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor (d. 1931)
  • February 13 – Sir Robert McAlpine, Scottish builder (d. 1930)
  • February 15 – Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer (d. 1927)
  • February 16 – Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (d. 1917)
  • February 17 – Otto Blehr, Norwegian attorney, Liberal Party politician, 7th Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1927)

March

  • March 1 – Sir Thomas Brock, English sculptor (d. 1922)
  • March 2
    • Isaac Barr, Anglican clergyman, promoter of British colonial settlement schemes (d. 1937)
    • Cayetano Arellano, first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines under the American Civil Government (d. 1920)
  • March 3Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born American inventor (d. 1922)
  • March 4 – Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist (d. 1904)
  • March 14 – Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (d. 1871)
  • March 18 – William O'Connell Bradley, American politician from Kentucky (d. 1914)
  • March 23 – Edmund Gurney, British psychologist (d. 1888)
  • March 27
    • Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
    • Garret Barry, Irish musician (d. 1899)

April

  • April 2 – Charles Frederic Moberly Bell, British journalist, editor (d. 1911)
  • April 10Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born journalist, newspaper publisher (d. 1911)
  • April 15 – Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, Polish Hasidic rabbi (d. 1905)
  • April 27 – Emma Irene Åström, Finnish teacher, Finland's first female university graduate (d. 1934)

May

June

  • June 8
    • Oleksander Barvinsky, Ukrainian politician (d. 1926)
    • Ida Saxton McKinley, First Lady of the United States (d. 1907)
  • June 10 – Gina Krog, Norwegian suffragist (d. 1916)
  • June 11 – Dame Milicent Fawcett, British suffragist (d. 1929)
  • June 16 – Luella Dowd Smith, American educator, author, and reformer (d. 1941)

July

  • July 2 – Marcel Alexandre Bertrand, French geologist (d. 1907)
  • July 9Wong Fei-hung, Chinese healer, revolutionary (d. 1925)
  • July 13 – Damian Sawczak, Ukrainian judge (d. 1912)
  • July 19 – Alexander Meyrick Broadley, British historian (d. 1916)
  • July 20
    • Lord William Beresford, Irish army officer, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1900)
    • Max Liebermann, German painter, printmaker (d. 1935)
  • July 25 – Paul Langerhans, German pathologist, biologist (d. 1888)

August

  • August 3 – John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, Canadian politician, Governor General (d. 1934)
  • August 5 – Andrey Selivanov, Russian general and politician (d. 1917)
  • August 21 – Hale Johnson, American temperance movement leader (d. 1902)

September

October

Thomas F. Porter
Maria Pia of Savoy

November

December

Deaths

January–June

Fanny Mendelssohn

July–December

  • July 7 – Thomas Carpenter, American glassmaker (b. 1752)
  • July 16 – Karl Friedrich Burdach, German physiologist (b. 1776)
  • September 4 – František Vladislav Hek, Czech patriot (b. 1769)
  • September 13Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (b. 1767)
  • October 22
    • Henriette Herz, German salonnière (b. 1764)
    • Negus Sahle Selassie of Shewa (b. c. 1795)
  • November 4Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (b. 1809)
  • November 18 - Zebulon Crocker, American congregationalist pastor (b. 1802)
  • December 14
    • Dorothy Ann Thrupp, British psalmist (b. 1779)
    • Manuel José Arce, Central American politician (b. 1787)
    • Barbarita Nieves, Venezuelan mistress of José Antonio Páez (b. 1803)
  • Unknown: Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse, French balloonist and parachutist (b. 1775)

References

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  2. "The Exmouth - a terrible tragedy on Islay". Isle of Islay. 2011. Retrieved July 13, 2012.
  3. "The Exmouth shipwreck off the Antrim Coast, Northern Ireland". My Secret Northern Ireland. Retrieved July 13, 2012.
  4. Boyd, A. K. (1948). The History of Radley College 1847-1947. Oxford: Blackwell. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
  5. Marshall, John (1989). The Guinness Railway Book. Enfield: Guinness Books. ISBN 0-8511-2359-7. OCLC 24175552.
  6. First communicated to the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, November 10, and published in a pamphlet, Notice of a New Anæsthetic Agent, in Edinburgh, November 12.
  7. Gordon, H. Laing (2002). Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811–1870). Minerva Group, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4102-0291-8. Retrieved November 11, 2011.
  8. Gilly, William Octavius Shakespeare (1850). Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy between 1793 and 1849. London: John W. Parker.
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