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| 1846 |
| | | With his Conservative party split, Peel's government falls and Lord John Russell becomes British prime minister at the head of a Whig administration | |
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| 1847 |
| | | Liberia wins independence and international recognition as a republic | |
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| 1848 |
| | | An uprising in Vienna leads to the resignation, on the following day, of the long-serving chancellor Klemens von Metternich | |
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| 1848 |
| | | With Wisconsin admitted as the 30th state, the western boundary of the USA now runs from Lake Superior to the Rio Grande | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Louis Napoleon is elected the first president of France's new Second Republic | |
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| 1848 |
| | | In a three-cornered US presidential election Whig candidate Zachary Taylor defeats Democrat Lewis Cass and the Free-Soil party's Martin van Buren | |
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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 |
| | | 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 |
| | | 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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