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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 |
| | | Scottish physicist William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin, proposes the 'absolute' scale of temperature | |
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| 1848 |
| | | English caricaturist George Cruikshank publishes The Drunkard's Children in support of the developing Temperance movement | |
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| 1848 |
| | | English art students Rossetti, Holman Hunt and Millais form the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood | |
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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 |
| | | Charles Dickens begins the publication in monthly numbers of David Copperfield, his own favourite among his novels | |
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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 |
| | | Expelled from Germany after the year of revolutions, Marx makes his home in tolerant London | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Dante Gabriel Rossetti depicts his sister Christina in The Girlhood of Mary Virgin | |
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