Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1847. 1847 (MDCCCXLVII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...

legislatures. Senators were elected over a wide range of time throughout 1846 and 1847, and a seat may have been filled months late or remained vacant due to legislative...

The Doctrine of Lapse (1847): Lord Dalhousie, the Governor-General of India, introduced this policy, allowing the British to annex Indian princely states...

The Panic of 1847 was a major British commercial and banking crisis, possibly triggered by the announcement in early March 1847 of government borrowing...

The year 1847 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. July 1 – German amateur astronomer Karl Ludwig Hencke discovers...

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author who is best known for writing the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. During...

1847 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. Events Army of occupation plays baseball in Santa Barbara, California, alienating the local...

1847 Stobbe, provisional designation A916 CA, is an asteroid from the middle region of the asteroid belt, approximately 23 kilometers in diameter. It was...

various dates in various states between August 2, 1846, and November 2, 1847. Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives...

The 1847 United Kingdom general election was conducted between 29 July 1847 and 26 August 1847 and resulted in the Whigs in control of government despite...

Events from the year 1847 in Canada. Monarch: Victoria Parliament: 2nd (until December) Governor General of the Province of Canada: Charles Cathcart, 2nd...

of the United States. She was commissioned into the United States Navy in 1847 for service in the Mexican–American War, then returned to Coast Survey service...

Annie Besant (née Wood; 1 October 1847 – 20 September 1933) was a British socialist, theosophist, freemason, women's rights and Home Rule activist, educationist...

loosely translates to "the hard times". The worst year of the famine was 1847, which became known as "Black '47". The population of Ireland on the eve...

NGC 1847". SIMBAD. Retrieved 7 December 2018. Seligman, Courtney. "NGC 1847". Celestial Atlas. Retrieved 7 December 2018. Media related to NGC 1847 at...

The Factories Act 1847, also known as the Ten Hours Act was a United Kingdom Act of Parliament which restricted the working hours of women and young persons...

The following lists events that happened during 1847 in Australia. Monarch - Victoria Governors of the Australian colonies: Governor of South Australia...

Westward 1847 (also punctuated as Westward-1847) is a 1979 video game written by Jon C. Sherman published by The Software Exchange for the TRS-80 16K....

Events from the year 1847 in Poland September 12 – Wacław Mayzel, histologist (d. 1916) October 16 – Arnold Fibiger, piano builder and industrialist (d...

The Springfield Model 1847 was a percussion lock musketoon produced by the Springfield Armory in the mid-19th century. Muskets were designed for a dual...

Jacobus "James" Roosevelt III (January 10, 1760 – February 6, 1847) was an American businessman and politician from New York City. A member of the Roosevelt...

Events from the year 1847 in Ireland. Ongoing – Great Famine. This summer's potato crop is free from blight, but inadequate due to small area sown. The...

removed from the name by Queen Victoria in 1847. Letters Patent dated 14 April 1847, quoted in Statutes 1847. Statutes 1725, although Risk says 11 May...

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1847. January – Vanity Fair: Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society begins...

The year 1847 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. May – The Architectural Association School of Architecture...

Events from the year 1847 in the United States. President: James K. Polk (D-Tennessee) Vice President: George M. Dallas (D-Pennsylvania) Chief Justice:...

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Events from the year 1847 in France. Monarch – Louis Philippe I 15 April - Bombardment of Tourane: French vessels dispatched by Admiral Cécille bombard...

lists events that happened during 1847 in Liberia. July 5 – The constitutional convention, which would produce the 1847 Liberian constitution as well as...

War. The well-organized wagon train migration began in earnest in April 1847, and the period (including the flight from Missouri in 1838 to Nauvoo), known...