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| 1848 |
| | 18-year-old Francis Joseph becomes emperor of Austria when his uncle, Ferdinand I, abdicates at the end of a year of unrest | |
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| 1848 |
| | Branwell, Emily and Anne Brontë die within a period of eight months | |
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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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| 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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| 1849 |
| | Nationalist leader Lajos Kossuth announces the independence of Hungary and the deposition of the Habsburg dynasty | |
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