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| 1847 |
| | | Barry's new House of Lords is opened, with lavishly beautiful interiors and furnishings by Pugin | |
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| 1847 |
| | | Liberia wins independence and international recognition as a republic | |
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| 1847 |
| | | English mathematician George Boole describes Boolean algebra in his pamphlet Mathematical Analysis of Logic | |
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| 1847 |
| | | Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes his first collection of poems, many of which have appeared first in The Dial | |
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| 1847 |
| | | Queen Victoria leases Pembroke Lodge, as a country retreat, to her Prime Minister, Lord John Russell | |
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| 1847 |
| | | William Hickling Prescott follows his great work on Mexico with a 2-volume History of the Conquest of Peru | |
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| 1847 |
| | | Napoleon's widow, the empress Marie Louise, now the duchess of Parma, dies in Parma | |
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| 1847 |
| | | Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights follows just two months after her sister Charlotte's Jane Eyre | |
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| 1847 |
| | | Kneller Hall is bought by the Committee of the Privy Council for Education. The house is largely demolished and rebuilt with nothing remaining of Kneller's original house. | |
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| 1847 |
| | | James Young Simpson is the first to deliver a baby (christened Anaesthesia) using chloroform | |
|  | First child born under anaesthesia
Wellcome Library, London
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