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1848
 
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Louis Napoleon is elected the first president of France's new Second Republic       
1848
 
  
Pugin marries his third wife, Jane Knill, with whom he has two more children     
1848
 
    
Oh! Susannah is in the first published collection of popular songs by Stephen Collins Foster       
1848
 
     
English art students Rossetti, Holman Hunt and Millais form the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood        
Holman Hunt Claudio and Isabella (detail)
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1848
 
    
A utopian community dedicated to the sharing of both property and sexual favours is established by John Humphrey Noyes near Oneida, New York       
1848
 
    
The prime minister of the papal states, Pellegrino Rossi, is assassinated in Rome       
1848
 
  
The second Anglo-Sikh war begins when a British army invades the Punjab to suppress a local uprising     
1848
 
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An uprising in Rome causes Pope Pius IX to flee for safety to a coastal fortress at Gaeta      
1848
 
     
In a three-cornered US presidential election Whig candidate Zachary Taylor defeats Democrat Lewis Cass and the Free-Soil party's Martin van Buren        
1848
 
    
18-year-old Francis Joseph becomes emperor of Austria when his uncle, Ferdinand I, abdicates at the end of a year of unrest