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| 1848 |
| | | An uprising in Rome causes Pope Pius IX to flee for safety to a coastal fortress at Gaeta | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Branwell, Emily and Anne Brontë die within a period of eight months | |
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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 |
| | | Giuseppe Garibaldi arrives from exile in South America to defend the new Roman republic against a French army | |
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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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| 1849 |
| | | Scottish painter David Roberts completes publication of his 6-volume The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Pope Pius IX returns to Rome under the protection of French troops, with his enthusiasm for any form of change much reduced. | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Expelled from Germany after the year of revolutions, Marx makes his home in tolerant London | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky undergoes a mock execution, after being sentenced to death for revolutionary activities against tsar Nicholas I | |
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