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| 1848 |
| | | Branwell, Emily and Anne Brontë die within a period of eight months | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Metternich and his family leave Vienna, in this year of revolutions, and live in Trumpeters' House until October 1849 | |
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| c. 1849 |
| | | Prince Albert is the driving force behind the plans for a Great Exhibition in London | |
|  | Letter from Prince Albert in 1849, proposing the Great Exhibition
National Archives, Kew
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| c. 1849 |
| | | Local painter and photographer George Hilditch sets up his easel under Richmond's new railway bridge | |
|  | George Hilditch, View from the Railway Bridge
Orleans House Gallery
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| 1849 |
| | | A new Roman republic is proclaimed, with veteran agitator Giuseppe Mazzini in the leading role | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Charles Dickens begins the publication in monthly numbers of David Copperfield, his own favourite among his novels | |
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| 1849 |
| | | A British victory at the Battle of Gujarat effectively ends the second Anglo-Sikh war, and is followed by annexation of the Punjab | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Giuseppe Garibaldi arrives from exile in South America to defend the new Roman republic against a French army | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Delegates of the German states offer the imperial crown of a united Germany to Frederick William IV, the king of Prussia, who rejects it | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Francis Parkman's The Oregon Trail, already serialized in 1847, is published in book form | |
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