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| 1848 |
| | | Another uprising in Vienna causes the emperor Ferdinand I to flee for safety to Innsbruck | |
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| 1848 |
| | | With Wisconsin admitted as the 30th state, the western boundary of the USA now runs from Lake Superior to the Rio Grande | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Martial law is imposed in Prague after a demonstration by radical Czech students following a Pan-Slav congress | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Scottish physicist William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin, proposes the 'absolute' scale of temperature | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Harry Smith annexes for Britain the land between the Orange and Vaal rivers, calling it the Orange River Sovereignty | |
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| 1848 |
| | | English caricaturist George Cruikshank publishes The Drunkard's Children in support of the developing Temperance movement | |
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| 1848 |
| | | The Palm House, today "the world's most important surviving Victorian glass and iron structure" is completed. Although originally told to hide it among trees, Kew's director William Hooker succeeds in placing it in a prominent position, thanks to support from Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Honoré de Balzac completes publication of La Comédie Humaine, a 17-volume collected edition of his numerous novels and stories | |
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| 1848 |
| | | US feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organize a convention on women's rights in Seneca Falls, New York | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Suppression of unrest in Hungary provokes a third violent uprising in Vienna and another flight by Ferdinand I, this time to Olomouc | |
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