1849

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1810s  1820s  1830s  – 1840s –  1850s  1860s  1870s
Years:	1846 1847 1848 – 1849 – 1850 1851 1852

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1849 (MDCCCXLIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1849th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 849th year of the 2nd millennium, the 49th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1840s decade. As of the start of 1849, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

• February 8 – Start of the new Roman Republic
• April 12 – Ludwig von Welden becomes commander of Austrian forces in Hungary.
• May – The Second Carlist War ends in Spain.

Deaths

June 15 - James K. Polk, 53, eleventh President of the United States, cholera (b. 1795)==Births==

for more information, see Category:1849 births.

1849 Media

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  March 23: The pivotal Battle of Novara (1849) is fought in unifying Italy into a single nation.

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  August 13: Hungarian Revolution of 1848 ends with the surrender at Világos of Hungarian rebels to the Russian Army.

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  Edmund Barton

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  Aleksander Świętochowski

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  Photograph of August Strindberg (1849-1912). This is a photo of Strindberg after his 50th birthday, when he was finally settled in Sweden. It is possible that this is a 1902 photo of Strindberg by photographer Herman Anderson (1856−?)

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  Porträt von Oskar Hertwig, am Mikroskop sitzend. Aufgenommen von Nicola Perscheid, 1906.[1]

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  Lord Randolph Churchill

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  • For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme.
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  Bernhard von Bülow, German statesman who served as Chancellor of the German Empire from 1900 to 1909.

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  Empress Shōken (Haruko) (1849-1914) in Western garb, a sign of the reform taken under the Meiji era (1868- 1912)

Deaths

for more information, see Category:1849 deaths.

• October 7 – Edgar Allan Poe