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Events

• June 7, 1840 : Change of government in Prussia

• 1840/1841 :  Rhine crisis

• July 15, 1840 : Treaty of London 

• September 4, 1842 : End of the confusion in Cologne

• 4th-6th June  1844 :  Silesian weaver revolt

• July 26, 1844 : First assassination attempt on Friedrich Wilhelm IV.

• 21-23 April 1847: Potato Revolution

• April 11, 1847 to June 26, 1847 : First United State Parliament

• July 23, 1847 : Prussian Jewish law

• September 12, 1847 : Offenburg meeting

• October 10, 1847 : Conference in Heppenheim

• 1847 : Foundation of the League of Communists , in whose constitution Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels played a key role, in London.

• 1848 : Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Party's manifesto .

• 22.-24. February 1848 : February 1848 Revolution in France

• 1848 : German Revolution 1848/1849

• February 27, 1848 : Mannheim People's Assembly

• March 5, 1848 : Heidelberg Assembly

• March 18, 1848 : Berlin barricade uprising

• March 31 to April 3, 1848 : Frankfurt pre-parliament

• March 24, 1848 to May 8, 1852 : Schleswig-Holstein survey

• May 18, 1848 to May 30, 1849 : Frankfurt National Assembly

• August 26, 1848 : Treaty of Malmö

• 18 September 1848 : September Revolution in Frankfurt

• October 6, 1848 to October 31, 1848 : Vienna October Uprising

• November 10, 1848 : Prussian troops march into Berlin under General Field Marshal Friedrich von Wrangel

• November 27, 1848 : Basic rights of the German people come into force

• December 5, 1848 : Dissolution of the Prussian National Assembly

• March 28, 1849: Adoption of the Paulskirche constitution

• April 28, 1849: Rejection of the emperor's deputation by Friedrich Wilhelm IV.

• May 2 to June 19, 1849 : Palatinate uprising

• 3rd-9th May 1849: Dresden May Uprising

• May 26, 1849: Three Kings Covenant

• May 28, 1849 : Erfurt Union Constitution

• June 30 to July 23, 1849 : Siege of Rastatt

• 1844–1848 : Hunger crises, hunger epidemics, social unrest and revolutions in Ireland , Poland , France , Austria and Germany , Chartist movement in England .

• 1849 : Frédéric Chopin dies at the age of 39.

• 1848–1849 : Revolution and struggle for freedom in Hungary.

Cultural history

literature

• Alexandre Dumas the Elder publishes The Three Musketeers , The Count of Monte Christo and The Queen's Necklace .
• Edgar Allan Poe publishes the poem The Raven .
• Charlotte Brontë publishes the educational novel Jane Eyre under the pseudonym "Currel Bell" .

science

• Use of chloroform in anesthesia ( James Young Simpson )

Personalities

politics

• Franz Joseph I , Emperor in Austria-Hungary
• Friedrich Wilhelm IV. , King of Prussia
• Louis-Philippe I , King of France
• Isabella II , Queen of Spain
• Gregory XVI. , Pope
• Pius IX , Pope
• Nicholas I , Tsar in Russia
• Victoria , Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
• Robert Peel , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
• John Russell, 1st Earl Russell , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
• James K. Polk , President of the United States
• John Tyler , President of the United States
• Mohammed Shah , Shah in Persia
• Ninkō , Emperor of Japan
• Kōmei , Emperor of Japan
• Daoguang , Emperor of China

literature

• Alexandre Dumas the Elder

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