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| 1846 |
| | | Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah has its premiere in England, in the city of Birmingham | |
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| 1846 |
| | | After marrying secretly, the English poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett go abroad to live in Florence | |
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| 1846 |
| | | Landlords in Scotland begin to clear crofters from Highland estates so as to provide pasture for sheep | |
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| 1846 |
| | | The three Brontë sisters jointly publish a volume of their poems and sell just two copies | |
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| 1847 |
| | | A new Factory Act is passed in Britain, limiting the working day of women and children to a maximum of ten hours | |
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| 1847 |
| | | Scottish obstetrician James Simpson uses anaesthetic (ether, and later in the year choloroform) to ease difficulty in childbirth | |
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| 1847 |
| | | English author William Makepeace Thackeray begins publication of his novel Vanity Fair in monthly parts (book form 1848) | |
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| 1847 |
| | | At a congress in London Engels persuades a group of radical Germans to adopt the name Communist League | |
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| 1847 |
| | | Charlotte becomes the first of the Brontë sisters to have a novel published — Jane Eyre | |
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| 1847 |
| | | English mathematician George Boole describes Boolean algebra in his pamphlet Mathematical Analysis of Logic | |
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