1847

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1810s  1820s  1830s  – 1840s –  1850s  1860s  1870s
Years:	1844 1845 1846 – 1847 – 1848 1849 1850

Events

• The book Wuthering Heights is published
• February 22 – The Battle of Buena Vista in the Mexican-American War
• March 29 – Veracruz is taken by Gen. Winfield Scott
• May 7 – The American Medical Association is founded
• July 24 – The Mormon pioneers under Brigham Young arrive in Salt Lake City to begin settling Utah.
• July 26 – Liberia becomes a country

Births

• February 11 – Thomas Edison
• March 3 – Alexander Graham Bell
• April 10 – Joseph Pulitzer
• September 5 – Jesse James

Deaths

• March 11 – Johnny Appleseed
• November 4 – Felix Mendelssohn