Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1847
Birthdays
- February 8 - Hugh Price Hughes, English social reformer (d. 1902)
- February 11 - Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor (d. 1931)
- February 14 - Anna Howard Shaw, American suffragette (d. 1919)
- February 14 - Maria Pia of Italy, queen of Portugal (d. 1911)
- February 15 - Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer (d. 1927)
- February 16 - Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (d. 1917)
- March 3 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor (d. 1922)
- March 4 - Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (d. 1904)
- March 10 - Kate Sheppard, New Zealand suffragist (d. 1934)
- March 27 - Otto Wallach, German chemist
- March 31 - Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (d. 1878)
- April 10 - Joseph Pulitzer, American journalist and publisher (d. 1911)
- April 16 - Hans Auer, Swiss architect
- May 7 - Archibald Primrose, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1929)
- May 8 - Oscar Hammerstein I, American theater producer and impresario (d. 1919)
- May 10 - Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician (d. 1923)
- June 8 - Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States (d. 1907)
- June 11 - Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist and feminist (d. 1929)
- July 4 - James Anthony Bailey, American circus impresario (d. 1906)
- July 20 - Max Liebermann, German artist (d. 1935)
- August 9 - Maria Victoria al Pozzo della Cisterna, queen consort of Spain (d. 1876)
- August 14 - Robert Comtesse, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1922)
- August 20 - Andrew Greenwood, England cricketer (d. 1889)
- August 20 - Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (d. 1912)
- August 23 - Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)
- September 2 - Roger Wolcott, 39th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1900)
- September 5 - Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)
- October 2 - Paul von Hindenburg, German officer and politician (d. 1934)
- October 8 - Rose Scott, Social Reformer (d. 1925)
- October 21 - Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian writer (d. 1906)
- October 30 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (d. 1897)
- November 1 - Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (d. 1930)
- November 8 - Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (d. 1907)
- November 8 - Bram Stoker, Irish novelist (d. 1912)
- November 16 - Edmund James Flynn, Canadian politician (d. 1927)
- November 26 - Maria Fyodorovna, Princess of Denmark and Empress of Russia (d. 1928)
- November 30 - Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena, 6th President of Brazil (d. 1909)
- December 7 - George Grossmith, British actor and writer (d. 1912)
- December 9 - George Grossmith, English actor (d. 1912)
- December 17 - Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (d. 1916)
- December 18 - Augusta Holmès, French composer (d. 1903)
Deaths
- January 19 - Charles Bent, New Mexico pioneer (assassinated)
- February 15 - Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (b. 1794)
- March 11 - Johnny Appleseed, American pioneer agronomist (b. 1774)
- April 30 - Archduke Charles of Austria, Austrian general (b. 1771)
- May 14 - Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (b. 1805)
- May 29 - Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy
- May 31 - Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor (b. 1780)
- June 11 - John Franklin, English sea captain and explorer (b. 1786)
- September 13 - Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (b. 1767)
- October 22 - Sahle Selassie, Negus of Shewa
- November 4 - Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (b. 1809)
- November 29 - Marcus Whitman, Washington state pioneer (b. 1802)
- December 17 - Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon (b. 1791)
Events
- January 4 - Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.
- January 13 - The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California.
- January 16 - John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
- January 30 - Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
- February 19 - The Donner Party is rescued.
- February 22 - Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista
- February 23 - Mexican-American War: Battle of Buena Vista
- March 1 - The state of Michigan formally abolishes capital punishment.
- March 9 - Mexican-American War: United States forces under General Winfield Scott invade Mexico near Vera Cruz.
- March 29 - Mexican-American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege.
- April 25 - The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.
- May 7 - The American Medical Association (AMA) is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- July 24 - After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City. Celebrations of this event include the Pioneer Day Utah state holiday and the Days of '47 Parade.
- July 26 - Liberia declares independence.
- July 29 - Cumberland School of Law founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, United States. At the end of 1847 only 15 law schools exist in the United States.
- September 6 - Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
- September 11 - Stephen Foster's well-known song, Oh! Susanna, is first performed at a saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- September 12 - Mexican-American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.
- September 13 - Mexican-American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City in the Mexican-American War.
- September 14 - Mexican-American War: Winfield Scott captures Mexico City.
- October 1 - German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.
- November 10 - The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.
- November 12 - Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.
- November 19 - The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened.
- November 29 - Whitman Massacre: Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians, causing the Cayuse War.
- December 5 - Jefferson Davis is elected to the US senate, his first political post.
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