List of heads of state 1847

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Africa

Egypt
- Viceroy : Muhammad Ali Pasha (1805–1848)

Ethiopia
- Kaiser : Sahle Dengel (1845–1850)

Buganda
- King : Suna II (1836-1856)

Bunyoro
- King : Nyabongo II (1835–1848)

Burundi
- King : Ntare IV. Rugamba (1796-1852)

Dahomey
- King : Gézo (1818-1856)

Liberia (founding of the state)
- President : Joseph Jenkins Roberts (1847–1856)

Madagascar
- Queen: Ranavalona I (1782–1861)
- Prime Minister : Rainiharo († 1852)

Morocco
- Sultan : Mulai Abd ar-Rahman (1822-1859)

Rwanda
- King : Mutara II (1830-1853)

Sokoto Caliphate
- Caliph : Aliyu Babba (1842-1859)

Zulu
- King : Mpande ka Senzangakhona (1840–1872)

America

North America

Mexico
- Head of State and Government:
  1. (incumbent) Valentín Gómez Farías (1846–20 March 1847)
  2. (officiating) Antonio López de Santa Anna (March 20 - September 15, 1847)
  3. (temporarily) Pedro María de Anaya (September 15, 1847–1848)

United States of America
- Head of State or Government: President James Polk (1845–1849)

Central America

Costa Rica
- Head of State and Government: Francisco María Oreamuno Bonilla (1844–1848)

Dominican Republic
- Head of State and Government: President Pedro Santana (1844–1848, 1853–1856, 1859–1861 )

El Salvador
- Head of State and Government: President Eugenio Aguilar (1846–1848)

Guatemala
- Head of State and Government: President Rafael Carrera y Turcios (1844–1848, 1851–1865 )

Haiti
- Head of State and Government:
  1. President Jean-Baptiste Riché (1846– March 1, 1847)
  2. President Faustin-Élie Soulouque (March 1, 1847-1859)

Honduras
- Head of State and Government:
  1. President Coronado Chávez (1845– January 1, 1847)
  2. President Juan Nepomucemo Fernández Lindo (February 12, 1847–1852)

Nicaragua
- Head of State and Government:
  1. Chief Director José León Sandoval (1845–12 March 1847)
  2. Senior Director Miguel R. Morales (March 12 – April 6, 1847)
  3. Chief Director José María Guerrero (April 6, 1847–1849)

South America

Bolivia
- Head of State and Government:
  1. President José Ballivián (1841– December 23, 1847)
  2. President Eusebio Guilarte (December 23, 1847–1848)

Brazil
- Ruler: Emperor Peter II (1831–1889)

Chile
- Head of State and Government: President Manuel Bulnes Prieto (1841-1851)

Ecuador
- Head of State and Government: President Vicente Ramón Roca (1845–1849)

New Granada (now Colombia )
- Head of State and Government: President Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera (1845–1849, 1861–1863, 1866–1867 )

Paraguay
- Head of State and Government: President Carlos Antonio López ( 1841–1844 , 1844–1862)

Peru (controversial)
- Head of State and Government: President Ramón Castilla (1845-1851)

Río de la Plata (now Argentina )
- Head of State and Government: (vacant)
- Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires: General Juan Manuel de Rosas (1835-1852)

Uruguay
- Head of State and Government: President Joaquín Suárez (1843-1852)

Venezuela
- Head of State and Government:
  1. President Carlos Soublette (1843–1847)
  2. President José Tadeo Monagas (1847-1851)

Asia

Abu Dhabi
- Emir: Sa'id (1845–1855)

Ajman
- Sheikh: Abdul Aziz I (1841–1848)

Afghanistan
- Emir: Dost Mohammed Khan (1842–1863)

Bahrain
- Emir: Muhammad ibn Khalifah Al Khalifah (1842–1868)

Brunei
- Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin II († 1852)

China ( Qing Dynasty )
- Emperor: Daoguang (1821–1850)

British India
- Governor General : Henry Hardinge (1844–1848)

Japan
- Emperor : Kōmei (1846–1867)
- Shogun : ( Tokugawa ): Tokugawa Ieyoshi (1837-1853)

Korea
- King: Heonjong (1834–1849)

Kuwait
- Emir: Djabir I (1814-1859)

Oman
- Sultan: Said ibn Sultan (1804-1856)

Persia ( Qajar dynasty)
- Shah : Mohammed Shah (1834–1848)

Thailand
- King: Rama III. , King of Thailand (1824-1851)

Australia and Oceania

Hawaii
- King : Kamehameha III. (1825-1854)

Europe

Abkhazia
- Prince: Mikheil Sharvashidze (1822–1864)

Andorra
- Co-princes :
  - King of the French : Louis-Philippe I (1830–1848)
  - Bishop of Urgell : Simó de Guardiola i Hortoneda (1828-1851)

Belgium
- Head of State: King Leopold I (1831–1865)
- Head of Government:
  - Prime Minister Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt ( 1834–1840 , 1846–12 August 1847, 1871–1874 )
  - Prime Minister Charles Rogier (August 12, 1847–1852, 1857–1868 )

Denmark
- King : Christian VIII (1839–1848)

German Confederation
- Austria
  - Emperor : Ferdinand I (1835–1848)
    - State Chancellor Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich (1821–1848)
- Prussia
  - King : Friedrich Wilhelm IV. (1840–1861)
- Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg
  - Duke : Alexander Karl (1834–1863)
- Principality of Anhalt-Dessau
  - Duke : Leopold IV (1817–1871)
- Principality of Anhalt-Köthen inheritance falls to Bernburg and Dessau
  - Duke : Heinrich (1830–1847)
- to bathe
  - Grand Duke : Leopold (1830-1852)
- Bavaria
  - King : Ludwig I (1825–1848)
- Braunschweig
  - Duke : Wilhelm (1831-1884)
- Bremen
  - Mayor : Johann Smidt (1821–1857)
  - Mayor: Simon Hermann Nonnen (1822–1847)
  - Mayor: Johann Daniel Noltenius (1839-1852)
  - Mayor: Diederich Meier (1845–1847)
  - Mayor: Isak Hermann Albrecht Schumacher (1847-1853)
- Frankfurt
  - Senior Mayor : Friedrich Carl Hector Wilhelm Freiherr von Günderrode called von Kellner (1841) (1847) (1851) (1861)
- Hamburg
  - Mayor : Johann Heinrich Bartels (1820–1850)
  - Mayor: Christian Daniel Benecke (1835–1851)
  - Mayor: Heinrich Kellinghusen (1843–1844) (1845–1846) (1847–1848) (1851–1852) (1853–1854) (1855–1856) (1857–1858) (1859–1860)
  - Mayor: Johann Ludewig Dammert (1843–1855)
- Hanover
  - King : Ernst August (1837-1851)
- Hessen-Darmstadt
  - Grand Duke : Ludwig II (1830–1848)
- Hessen-Homburg
  - Landgrave : Gustav (1846–1848)
- Hessen-Kassel
  - Elector: Wilhelm II. (1821–1847)
  - Elector: Friedrich Wilhelm (1847–1866)
- Hohenzollern-Hechingen
  - Prince : Constantine (1838–1849)
- Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
  - Prince : Karl (1831–1848)
- Holstein and Lauenburg (personal union with Denmark 1815–1864)
  - Duke: Christian I (1839-1848)
- Liechtenstein
  - Prince : Alois II. (1836-1858)
- lip
  - Prince : Leopold II (1802-1851)
- Lübeck
  - Mayor : Johann Joachim Friedrich Torkuhl (1847–1848) (1851–1852) (1857–1858)
- Luxembourg and Limburg (personal union with the Netherlands 1815–1890)
  - Grand Duke : Wilhelm II (1840–1849)
- Mecklenburg-Schwerin
  - Grand Duke : Friedrich Franz II. (1842–1883)
- Mecklenburg-Strelitz
  - Grand Duke : Georg (1816–1860)
- Nassau
  - Duke : Adolf I (1839–1866)
- Oldenburg
  - Grand Duke : Paul Friedrich August (1829-1853)
- Reuss older line
  - Prince : Heinrich XX. (1836-1859)
- Reuss-Lobenstein-Ebersdorf
  - Prince: Heinrich LXXII. (1822-1848)
- Reuss-Schleiz
  - Prince: Heinrich LXII. (1818-1848)
- Saxony
  - King : Friedrich August II. (1836-1854)
- Saxony-Altenburg
  - Duke : Joseph (1834–1848)
- Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
  - Duke : Ernst II (1844-1893)
- Saxony-Meiningen
  - Duke : Bernhard II. (1803–1866)
- Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
  - Grand Duke : Carl Friedrich (1828-1853)
- Schaumburg-Lippe
  - Prince : Georg Wilhelm (1787–1860) until 1807 Count
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
  - Prince : Friedrich Günther (1807–1867)
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
  - Prince : Günther Friedrich Karl II. (1835–1880)
- Waldeck-Pyrmont
  - Prince : Georg Viktor (1845-1893)
- Württemberg
  - King : Wilhelm I (1816–1864)

France
- King : Louis-Philippe I (1830–1848)
  - Prime Minister: Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult (1840–1847)

Greece
- King : Otto I (1832–1862)

Italian states
- Papal States
  - Pope : Pius IX (1846–1870) (1870 dissolution of the Papal States - pontificate ends in 1878)
- Lombardy-Veneto (personal union with Austria 1815–1859 / 66)
  - King : Ferdinand (1835–1848)
- Lucca (Karl Ludwig receives Parma in 1847 and cedes Lucca to Tuscany)
  - Duke: Karl Ludwig (1824–1847)
- Modena and Reggio
  - Duke : Franz V (1846-1859)
- Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla (falls in 1847 to the Bourbon-Parma line, which Lucca cedes to Tuscany)
  - Duchess : Marie-Louise (1814–1847)
  - Duke: Karl II. Ludwig (1847–1849)
- San Marino
  - Capitani Reggenti : Francesco Guidi Giangi , Costanzo Damiani (October 1, 1846– April 1, 1847)
  - Capitani Reggenti: Girolamo Gozi , Domenic 'Antonio Bartolotti (April 1, 1847– October 1, 1847)
  - Capitani Reggenti: Giuliano Malpeli , Biagio Martelli (October 1, 1847– April 1, 1848)
- Sardinia
  - King : Karl Albert (1831–1849)
- Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
  - King : Ferdinand II (1830-1859)
- Tuscany (receives Lucca in 1847)
  - Grand Duke Leopold II (1824-1859)

Monaco
- Prince Florestan (1841-1856)

Montenegro (until 1878 under Ottoman suzerainty)
- Prince-Bishop (Vladika) : Petar II. Petrović-Njegoš (1830-1851)

Neutral Moresnet
- Ruler: Leopold I , King of Belgium (1831–1865)
- Ruler: Friedrich Wilhelm IV. , King of Prussia (1840–1861)
- Mayor: Arnold Timothée de Lasaulx (1817-1859)

Netherlands
- King: Wilhelm II. (1840–1849)

Norway
- King: Oskar I (1844-1859) (identical to Oskar I of Sweden; Norwegian-Swedish personal union)

Ottoman Empire
- Sultan: Abdülmecid I (1839–1861)

Portugal (common rule 1837-1853)
- Queen : Mary II ( 1826–1828 , 1834–1853)
- King: Ferdinand II. (1837-1853) (1853-1855 regent)

Russia
- Emperor : Nicholas I (1825–1855)

Sweden
- King : Oskar I (1844-1859) (1844-1859 King of Norway)

Serbia (until 1878 under Ottoman suzerainty)
- Prince : Aleksandar Karađorđević (1842–1858)

Spain
- Queen : Isabella II (1833–1868)

Hungary
- King : Ferdinand V (1835–1848) (1835–1848 King of Bohemia, 1835–1848 Emperor of Austria)

United Kingdom
- Head of State: Queen Victoria (1837–1901) (1877–1901 Empress of India)
- Head of Government: Prime Minister John Russell (1846–1852, 1865–1866 )

Wallachia (under Ottoman rule)
- Prince : Gheorghe Bibescu (1843–1848)