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| 1848 |
| | | Gold is found on the property of John Sutter, at Coloma on the Sacramento river in California, and news of it launches the first gold rush | |
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| 1848 |
| | | An uprising in Sicily in January starts off Europe's 'year of revolutions' | |
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| 1848 |
| | | A treaty signed in Guadalupe-Hidalgo, ending the Mexican-American War, gives the US six new states | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Richmond's railway bridge, the first to cross the Thames, is built to continue the line on towards Windsor | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Two New York girls, Maggie and Katie Fox, claim to be in touch with the spirit of a murdered man, thus launching the modern cult of spiritualism | |
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| 1848 |
| | | The Prussian army is the first to adopt a breech-loading rifle, the 'needle-gun' developed by gunsmith Johann Nikolaus von Dreyse | |
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| 1848 |
| | | A revolution in Paris in February removes Louis-Philippe and introduces France's second republic | |
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| 1848 |
| | | The Wilmot Proviso is defeated in the US Senate, heightening north-south tensions on the issue of slavery | |
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| 1848 |
| | | The Communist Manifesto, by Marx and Engels, is published in Paris with the ringing slogan: 'Workers of the world, unite!' | |
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| 1848 |
| | | An uprising in Vienna leads to the resignation, on the following day, of the long-serving chancellor Klemens von Metternich | |
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