Английская Википедия:1849 in the United States

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Events from the year 1849 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: James K. Polk (D-Tennessee) (until March 4), Zachary Taylor (W-Kentucky) (starting March 4)
• Vice President: George M. Dallas (D-Pennsylvania) (until March 4), Millard Fillmore (W-New York) (starting March 4)
• Chief Justice: Roger B. Taney (Maryland)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Robert Charles Winthrop (W-Massachusetts) (until March 4), Howell Cobb (D-Georgia) (starting December 22)
• Congress: 30th (until March 4), 31st (starting March 4)

Governors and lieutenant governors
Governors Lieutenant governors

Events

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March 4: Zachary Taylor becomes the 12th U.S. president

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Millard Fillmore becomes the 12th U.S. vice president

• January 23 – Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, thus becoming the United States' first woman doctor.
• January 27
  • The Fayetteville and Western Plank Road Company is incorporated, to build a plank road from Fayetteville to Bethania, North Carolina.
  • The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the North Carolina Railroad, to complete a rail line from Goldsboro through Raleigh, and Salisbury to Charlotte.
• February 14 – James Knox Polk becomes the first sitting president of the United States to have his photograph taken, in New York City.
• February 28 – Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the Шаблон:SS in San Francisco Bay. The California leaves New York Harbor on October 6, 1848, rounds Cape Horn at the tip of South America, and arrives at San Francisco, California after a 4-month-21-day journey.
• March 3
  • Minnesota Territory is established.
  • The United States Department of the Interior is established.
  • The U.S. Congress passes the Gold Coinage Act allowing the minting of gold coins.
• March 4 – Zachary Taylor becomes the 12th president of the United States, and Millard Fillmore becomes the 12th vice president, but both refuse to be sworn in office on a Sabbath (Sunday). Urban legend holds that David Rice Atchison, President pro tempore of the United States Senate is President de jure for a single day.
• March 5 – President Zachary Taylor and Vice President Millard Fillmore are sworn into office.
• May 3 – The Mississippi River levee at Sauvé's Crevasse breaks, flooding much of New Orleans, Louisiana.
• May 10 – Astor Place Riot occurs in Manhattan.
• June 6 – Fort Worth, Texas is founded.
• September 1 – The first segment of the Pennsylvania Railroad, from Lewistown, Pennsylvania to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, opens for service.
• September 17 – Harriet Tubman emancipates herself.
• November – Austin College receives a charter in Huntsville.
• November 13 – The Constitution of California is ratified by the electorate.
• Undated – Pfizer is founded by cousins Charles Pfizer and Charles F. Erhart in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as a manufacturer of fine chemicals.

Continuing

• California Gold Rush (January 24, 1848–1855)

Births

• January 12 – Murphy J. Foster, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1901 to 1913 (died 1921)
• January 29 – Newton C. Blanchard, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1894 to 1897 (died 1922)
• March 2 – Robert Means Thompson, naval officer (died 1930)
• March 7 – Luther Burbank, biologist (died 1926)
• March 10 – Mary Evelyn Hitchcock, author and explorer (died 1920)
• March 17 – Cornelia Clapp, marine biologist (died 1934)
• April 3 – Walter Guion, U.S. Senator from Louisiana in 1918 (died 1927)
• April 17 – William R. Day, politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 1923)
• April 19 – John Uri Lloyd, pharmacist and science fiction author (died 1936)
• April 30 – Jennie Tuttle Hobart, Second Lady of the United States as wife of Garret Hobart (died 1941)
• May 19 – John Hubbard, admiral (died 1932)
• June 30 – William Joseph Deboe, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1897 to 1903 (died 1927)
• July 22 – Emma Lazarus, poet (died 1887)
• August 9 – John P. Young, managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle (died 1921)
• August 12 – Abbott Handerson Thayer, painter, naturalist and teacher (died 1921)
• August 23 – William Stanley West, U.S. Senator from Georgia in 1914 (died 1914)
• September 3 – Sarah Orne Jewett, Maine fiction writer (died 1909)
• September 18 – Martha Place, murderer (first woman executed in the electric chair, 1899)
• October 3 – Jeannette Leonard Gilder, author and editor (died 1916)
• October 7 – James Whitcomb Riley, dialect poet (died 1916)
• November 19 – Grace Denio Litchfield, poet and novelist (died 1944)
• December 6
  • Jennie Anderson Froiseth, women's rights campaigner (died 1930)
  • Charles S. Thomas, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1913 to 1921 (died 1934)
• December 12 – William Kissam Vanderbilt, railroad magnate (died 1920)
• December 16 – Mary Hartwell Catherwood, author and poet (died 1902)* December 19 – Henry Clay Frick, industrialist and art collector (died 1919)
• December 20
  • John W. Kern, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1911 to 1917 (died 1917)
  • Raymond P. Rodgers, admiral (died 1925)
• Ellen Eglin, inventor
• Emma Curtis Hopkins, spiritual writer (died 1925)

Deaths

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James K. Polk

• January 30 – Jonathan Alder, settler (born 1773)
• March 17 – Ann Gerry, Second Lady of the United States from 1813 to 1814 as wife of Elbridge Gerry (born 1763)
• July 12 – Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States from 1809 to 1817 as wife of James Madison (born 1768)
• June 15 – James K. Polk, 11th president of the United States from 1845 to 1849 (born 1795)
• July 30 – Jacob Perkins, inventor, mechanical engineer, and physicist (born 1766)
• August 23 – Edward Hicks, folk painter and Quaker preacher (born 1780)
• October 7 – Edgar Allan Poe, author, poet, editor and literary critic (born 1809)
• October 22 – William Miller, Baptist preacher, leader of the Second Advent Movement (born 1782)
• Robert Cary Long, Jr., architect working in Baltimore (born 1810)

See also

• Timeline of United States history (1820–1859)

External links

• Шаблон:Commons category-inline