1848

1848 was 23 years before the founding of the City of Birmingham and the 29th year of Alabama statehood.

Events

• The town of Montevallo was incorporated.

Works

Buildings

• W.A. Coleman house

Individuals

• Frank O'Brien immigrated to the United States with his parents.
• Mitchell Porter graduated from East Tennessee University in Knoxville.
• Michael Tuomey was appointed the first State Geologist of Alabama.

Births

• October 17: Truman Aldrich, Birmingham postmaster and U.S. Representative
• October 29: A. O. Lane, Mayor of Birmingham
• November 7: B. B. Comer, Governor of Alabama

Context

In 1848, the California Gold Rush began and the Irish Potato Famine continued. Construction of the Washington Monument began. The Mexican–American War formally ended. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published The Communist Manifesto. Wisconsin was admitted as a state. The Second Republic of France was established. Zachary Taylor was elected president.

Notable births in 1848 included Henri Duparc, Octave Mirbeau, Wyatt Earp, Otto Lilienthal, Paul Gauguin, and Henry Lomb. Notable deaths included John Quincy Adams, John Jacob Astor, François-René de Chateaubriand, George Stephenson, Simon Willard, and Emily Brontë.

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