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| 1847 |
| | | English mathematician George Boole describes Boolean algebra in his pamphlet Mathematical Analysis of Logic | |
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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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| 1848 |
| | | An uprising in Sicily in January starts off Europe's 'year of revolutions' | |
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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 Communist Manifesto, by Marx and Engels, is published in Paris with the ringing slogan: 'Workers of the world, unite!' | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Scottish physicist William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin, proposes the 'absolute' scale of temperature | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Honoré de Balzac completes publication of La Comédie Humaine, a 17-volume collected edition of his numerous novels and stories | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Louis Napoleon is elected the first president of France's new Second Republic | |
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| 1848 |
| | | English art students Rossetti, Holman Hunt and Millais form the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood | |
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| 1848 |
| | | The prime minister of the papal states, Pellegrino Rossi, is assassinated in Rome | |
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