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Mark Twain and the Wellerman Come on a Comet – 1830 – 1839
As we enter into the 1840’s
Martin Van Buren (1782–1862) was president from
March 4, 1837 – March 4, 1841
Pope # 254 Gregory XVI (September 18, 1765 – June 1, 1846) was on the throne of St. Peter from
(February 2, 1831 – June 1, 1846 –15 years, 119 days)
1840
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Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople – Wikipedia
News of the World
- January 19, 1840 – Captain Charles Wilkes‘ United States Exploring Expedition sights what becomes known as Wilkes Land in the southeast quadrant of Antarctica, claiming it for the United States, and providing evidence that Antarctica is a complete continent.
- April 3, 1840 – Johnny Appleseed meets Abraham Lincoln, and plants apple trees in New York City.
Arrivals
John Boyd Dunlop (February 5, 1840 – October 23, 1921) was a Scottish inventor and veterinary surgeon who spent most of his career in Ireland. Familiar with making rubber devices, he invented the first practical pneumatic tyres for his child’s tricycle and developed them for use in cycle racing.
Departures
- May 6, 1840 – Servant of God Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin (December 22, 1770 – May 6, 1840) was an emigre Russian aristocrat and Catholic priest known as “The Apostle of the Alleghenies” and also in the United States as Prince Galitzin. He was a member of the House of Golitsyn. – American Catholic History
Publications Hot of the Press
- 1840 – John Wilson ( June 8, 1799 – January 22, 1870) publishes Our Israelitish Origin, a book of his lectures, in which he claimed that the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel had made their way from the Near East, across the continent of Europe, to the British Isles. He believed the Northern European people to be descended from the Ten Lost Tribes, with the people of Britain being the Tribe of Ephraim. Wilson relied on philological “evidence” of English, Scottish, and Irish words that were similar to Hebrew words, even though he lacked formal training in language or seminary. Other members of the British Israelism movement, included Edward Wheler Bird and Edward Hine.
Good Sports
The third contender Ben Caunt enhances his title claim by defeating Bill Brassey in a fight lasting 101 rounds. This victory sets up a bout with Ward the following year.
Sanctifying Time
The Sound of Music and Other Cultural Milestones
The Piano Sonata No. 2 in B♭ minor, Op. 35, is a piano sonata in four movements by Polish composer Frédéric Chopin. Chopin completed the work while living in George Sand‘s manor in Nohant, some 250 km (160 mi) south of Paris, a year before it was published in 1840.
1841
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Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg – Woman in Front of a Mirror
News of the World
- March 4, 1841 – William Henry Harrison is sworn in as the ninth President of the United States.
- March 9, 1841 – United States v. The Amistad: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the case, that the Africans who seized control of the ship had been taken into slavery illegally.
- April 4, 1841 – President William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia, aged 68, becoming the first President of the United States to die in office, and at one month, the American president with the shortest term served. He is succeeded by Vice President John Tyler, who becomes the tenth President of the United States.
Mysterious World
- November 22, 1841 –The Mystery of Hypnosis James Braid “Father of Modern Hypnotism”(June 19, 1795 – March 25, 1860) performs his first act of hetero-hypnotization at his own residence, before several witnesses, including Captain Thomas Brown (1785–1862) on Mr. J. A. Walker. (see Neurypnology, pp. 16–20.) also in 1841 – Étienne Félix d’Henin de Cuvillers (1755–1841) dies. He was a French magnetizer and an early practitioner of mesmerism as a scientific discipline. He’s best known for coining the term hypnotism in the 1820s. The words hypnosis and hypnotism both derive from the term neuro-hypnotism (nervous sleep)
Arrivals
Sir Henry Morton Stanley, (January 28, 1841 – May 10, 1904) was a Welsh-American explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial administrator, author and politician who was famous for his exploration of Central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
Departures
Saint Peter Chanel (July 12, 1803 – April 28, 1841), was a Catholic priest, missionary, and martyr. Chanel was a member of the Society of Mary and was sent as a missionary to Oceania. He arrived on the island of Futuna in November 1837. Chanel was clubbed to death in April 1841 at the instigation of a chief upset because his son converted.
Publications Hot of the Press
- Edgar Allan Poe – short stories
- “The Murders in the Rue Morgue“
- “A Descent into the Maelström“
- “Eleonora“
- “Never Bet the Devil Your Head“
- “Three Sundays in a Week”
- Hans Christian Andersen – Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection. Third Booklet
Good Sports
September 9, 1841— Tom Hyer (January 1, 1819 – June 26, 1864) is acclaimed the first American bare-knuckle boxer Champion after defeating George McChester at Caldwell’s Landing, New York, over 101 rounds.
Sanctifying Time
- Pope Gregory XVI – Quas Vestro – On Mixed Marriages, 30 April 1841
- Reflections on the Great Truths of Christian Religion for Every Day of the Month, by Archbishop Richard Challoner
The Sound of Music and Other Cultural Milestones
Frederic Chopin Fantaisie in F minor
1842
The Little White Horse (1946) by Elizabeth Goudge is set in 1842, it features a recently orphaned teenage girl who is sent to the manor house of her cousin and guardian in the West Country of England. The estate, village, and vicinity are shrouded in mystery and magic; the “little white horse” is a unicorn. Goudge won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognizing the year’s best children’s book by a British subject. It has been adapted for film and television.
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Thomas Cole – The Voyage of Life (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
News of the World
1842 – Dinos Questions English palaeontologist Richard Owen coins the name Dinosauria, hence the Anglicized dinosaur.
Mysterious World
1842 –The Pyramids of Egypt Karl Richard Lepsius (December 23, 1810 – July 10, 1884) begins an expedition to Egypt and the Sudan commissioned by King Frederick William IV of Prussia. Karl and his team spent six months making some of the first scientific studies of the pyramids of Giza, Abusir, Saqqara, and Dahshur. They discovered 67 pyramids recorded in the pioneering Lepsius list of pyramids and more than 130 tombs of noblemen in the area. While at the Great Pyramid of Giza, Lepsius inscribed a graffito written in Egyptian hieroglyphs that honours Friedrich Wilhelm IV above the pyramid’s original entrance; it is still visible. GP Hieroglyphics”.
Arrivals
- Saint Dominic Savio (April 2, 1842 – March 9, 1857) Italian adolescent student of John Bosco.
Departures
- April 4, 1842– President William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia, aged 68, becoming the first President of the United States to die in office, and at one month, the American president with the shortest term served. He is succeeded by Vice President John Tyler, who becomes the tenth President of the United States.
Publications Hot of the Press
- c. March 7, 1842 – Charles Dickens meets Edgar Allan Poe in Philadelphia
- Henry David Thoreau – A Walk to Wachusett
Good Sports
- The first American collegiate rowing club is established at Yale University on the Thames River (Connecticut)
Sanctifying Time
November 26, 1842 – The University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana (United States) is established by Father Edward Sorin, of the Roman Catholic Congregation of Holy Cross.
The Sound of Music and Other Cultural Milestones
December 7, 1842 – The New York Philharmonic, founded by Ureli Corelli Hill, performs its first concert.
And it’s still here today.
1843
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Théodore Chassériau – The Two Sisters
News of the World
- January 6 – Antarctic explorer James Clark Ross discovers Snow Hill Island.
- February 14 – The event that will inspire The Beatles’ song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! is held in England.
- March 21, 1843 – Real, Haitian Zombies! English Poet Robert Southey (August 12, 1774 – March 21, 1843) dies. He coined the English word “zombie”. It was first recorded in 1819, in a history of Brazil.
- November 28 – Hawaii is recognized as an independent nation by the United Kingdom and France. The holiday is celebrated annually as La Ku’oko’a (Independence Day)
Arrivals
Charles Warren Stoddard (August 7, 1843 – April 23, 1909) was an American author and editor best known for his travel books about Polynesian life. Stoddard’s The Lepers of Molokai, according to Robert Louis Stevenson, did much to establish Father Damien’s position in public esteem. In 1867, soon after his first visit to the South Sea Islands, Stoddard was received into the Catholic Church. He told the story of his conversion in a small book, A Troubled Heart and How it was Comforted, of which he said: “Here you have my inner life all laid bare.”
Departures
May 28 – Noah Webster (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) American lexicographer. Webster’s name has become synonymous with “dictionary” in the United States, especially the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary that was first published in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language.
Samuel Sutherland Cooper (1769 – 1843) dies. He is perhaps the most important person in the early Church in America whom you’ve never heard of.– American Catholic History
Publications Hot of the Press
Hans Christian Andersen – New Fairy Tales. First Volume. First Collection
- June 21 – Edgar Allan Poe‘s short story “The Gold-Bug” begins to be serialized in the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper as the winning entry in a competition, earning Poe a $100 prize. It will be widely reprinted and adapted for theater. It popularizes cryptography.
- August 19 – Edgar Allan Poe‘s Gothic short story “The Black Cat” is first published in The Saturday Evening Post.
- Edgar Allan Poe‘s short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” is published in a Boston magazine.
- Beowulf, an epic poem translated from the Anglo-Saxon into English verse by Wackerbarth, A. Diedrich
- Søren Kierkegaard‘s philosophical book Fear and Trembling is first published, in Denmark.
Sanctifying Time
Several Archdiocese’s are founded including….
- Archdiocese of Chicago, Illinois
- Archdiocese of Hartford, Connecticut
- Archdiocese of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon
The Sound of Music and Other Cultural Milestones
- December – The world’s first Christmas cards, commissioned by Sir Henry Cole in London from the artist John Callcott Horsley, are sent.
- The blackface troupe the Virginia Minstrels popularize the song, “Old Dan Tucker”
1844
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Robert Walter Weir – Embarkation of the Pilgrims (United States Capitol rotunda, Washington, D.C.)
News of the World
- June 6, 1844– The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
- June 15 1844– Charles Goodyear receives a United States patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
Arrivals
Friedrich Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers.
Departures
- June 27,1844 – Killing of Joseph Smith: Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum, are murdered in Carthage Jail, Carthage, Illinois by an armed mob, leading to a succession crisis in the movement. John Taylor, future president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is severely injured but survives, while the fourth man inside the upper room, then-apostle Willard Richards, escapes with only a graze to his upper ear.
Publications Hot of the Press
- March–July, 1844 – Alexandre Dumas père’s historical adventure story The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is serialised in the Paris newspaper Le Siècle.
- August 28, 1844 – Alexandre Dumas père’s near-recent historical adventure story The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) begins serialization in the Paris newspaper Journal des débats, and continues through to January 1846. Book publication also begins this year.
Good Sports
First ever international cricket match, between Canada and the United States, takes place at St George’s Cricket Club in New York.
Sanctifying Time
The Sound of Music and Other Cultural Milestones
- February 5, 1844 – The first three of many theatrical adaptations of A Christmas Carol open in London.
- Buffalo Gals” is a traditional American song, written and published as “Lubly Fan” in 1844 by the blackface minstrel John Hodges, who performed as “Cool White”. The song was widely popular throughout the United States, where minstrels often altered the lyrics to suit local audiences, performing it as “New York Gals” in New York City, “Boston Gals” in Boston, or “Alabama Girls” in Alabama, as in the version recorded by Alan Lomax and Shirley Collins on a 1959 field recording trip. The best-known version is named after Buffalo, New York.
1845
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News of the World
- March 3,1845
- Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
- The United States Congress passes legislation overriding a presidential veto for the first time.
- March 4, 1845 – James K. Polk is sworn in as the 11th President of the United States.
- September 9, 1845 – Potato blight breaks out in Ireland, beginning the Great Famine.
- December 29, 1845 – Texas is admitted as the 28th U.S. state.
Arrivals
Saint André Bessette, (August 9, 1845 – January 6, 1937), was a lay brother of the Congregation of Holy Cross and a significant figure of the Catholic Church among French-Canadians. He is credited with thousands of reported healings associated with his pious devotion to Saint Joseph. Bessette was declared venerable in 1978 and was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1982.[2] Pope Benedict XVI approved the decree of sainth He is the first Canadian living after Confederation to be canonized.
Departures
- Thomas Davis (Young Irelander) (October 14, 1814 – September 16, 1845) dies. He was one of the founding editors of The Nation, the weekly organ of what came to be known as the Young Ireland movement.
- Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (May 24, 1759 – December 25, 1845) dies. He was the eldest son of Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach and the only grandson of Johann Sebastian Bach to gain fame as a composer. He was music director to Frederick William II of Prussia. WFE’s only son died in infancy. The first born of his three daughters, Caroline Augusta Wilhelmine, lived the longest. She died in 1871 – the last of Bach’s descendants to hold the Bach name.
Publications Hot of the Press
- 1845 – “The Raven” is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“‘Tis some visiter,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more.”
- Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (book publication concluded)
Good Sports
- October 21, 1845 – The New York Herald becomes the first newspaper to mention the game of baseball.
Sanctifying Time
The Sound of Music and Other Cultural Milestones
The Hutchinson Family Singers tour England with Frederick Douglass.
1846
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News of the World
- December 28, 1846 – Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.
- September 23, 1846 – Discovery of Neptune: The planet is observed for the first time by German astronomers Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich Louis d’Arrest, as predicted by British astronomer John Couch Adams and French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier.
Arrivals
William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American soldier, bison hunter, and showman.
Departures
John Ainsworth Horrocks, (March 22, 1818 – September 23, 1846) was an English pastoralist and explorer who was one of the first European settlers in the Clare Valley of South Australia where, in 1840, he established the village of Penwortham.
Publications Hot of the Press
- January 21 – The Daily News, edited by Charles Dickens, first appears in London. After 17 issues Dickens hands over as editor to his friend John Forster. It continues until 1930.
- April –Hans Christian Andersen‘s Fairy Tales are first translated into English, beginning with “The Little Mermaid” in Bentley’s Miscellany.
Good Sports
- 19 June — First baseball match certainly played under the Knickerbocker rules at Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Sanctifying Time
NEW POPE
- June 16 ,1846–Blessed Pope Pius IX succeeds Pope Gregory XVI as the 255th pope. He will reign for 31½ years (the longest definitely confirmed).
September 19, 1846 – La Salette Apparition Our Lady of La Salette, a Marian apparition, is said to have been seen by two children at La Salette-Fallavaux in France.
The Sound of Music and Other Cultural Milestones
- June 28, 1846 – The saxhorn family of valved brass instruments is patented by Adolphe Sax in France.
1847
The year is 1847, the place is the territory of New Mexico, the people are a tiny handful of men and women with a dream. Eleven months ago, they started out from Ohio and headed west. Someone told them about a place called California, about a warm sun and a blue sky, about rich land and fresh air, and at this moment, almost a year later, they’ve seen nothing but cold, heat, exhaustion, hunger, and sickness. This man’s name is Christian Horn. He has a dying eight-year-old son and a heartsick wife, and he’s the only one remaining who has even a fragment of the dream left. Mr. Chris Horn, who’s going over the top of a rim to look for water and sustenance and in a moment will move into the Twilight Zone.
“A Hundred Yards Over the Rim” The Twilight Zone, Episode # 59 Second Season Episode 23 – April 7, 1961.
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John Rogers Herbert – Our Saviour Subject to His Parents in Nazareth
News of the World
- March 1, 1847-The state of Michigan formally abolishes the death penalty.
- 1847 – The American physician and missionary Thomas Staughton Savage and naturalist Jeffries Wyman are the first Europeans to encounter the western gorilla.
Arrivals
Jesse James, (September 5, 1847 – April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw, bank and train robber, guerrilla and leader of the James–Younger Gang.
Bram Stoker (November 8, 1847 – April 20, 1912) was an Irish author who is best known for writing the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the West End‘s Lyceum Theatre, which Irving owned.
Departures
Mary Anning, (May 21, 1799 – March 9, 1847) was an English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist. She became known internationally for her discoveries in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel at Lyme Regis in the county of Dorset, Southwest England. Anning’s findings contributed to changes in scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the Earth.
Barbara Spooner Wilberforce, (1771 – April 21, 1847) was the spouse of abolitionist and MP William Wilberforce (August 24, 1759 – July 29, 1833).
Publications Hot of the Press
- March, 1847 – First known publication of the classic joke “Why did the chicken cross the road?“, in The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine.
- Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855)
Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë (1818–1848)
Agnes Grey (1847) by Anne Brontë (1820–1849)
Good Sports
- William Clarke’s All-England Eleven (AEE), formed in 1846, becomes a major attraction and plays numerous matches throughout England
Sanctifying Time
- A resident Latin Patriarch was re-established in 1847 by Pius IX, with Bishop Joseph Valerga (April 9, 1813 – December 2, 1872) being appointed to the office. Though officially superseding the Franciscans, Valerga was also the Grand Master of the Order.
The Sound of Music and Other Cultural Milestones
“O Holy Night” (original title: Cantique de Noël) is a sacred song about the night of the birth of Jesus Christ, described as ‘the dear Saviour’ in the original, and frequently performed as a Christmas carol. Originally based on a French-language poem written in 1843 by poet Placide Cappeau, it was set to music by composer Adolphe Adam in 1847. The English version, with small changes to the initial melody, is by John Sullivan Dwight.
1848
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Holman Hunt
The Flight of Madeline and Porphyro during the Drunkenness attending the Revelry, Eve of Saint Agnes
News of the World
- March 18,1848 – The Boston Public Library is founded by an act of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts.
- May 29, 1848 – Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
- August 19,1848 – California Gold Rush: The New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States that there is a gold rush in California (although the rush started in January).
Arrivals
- March 19 – Wyatt Earp, American lawman and gunfighter (d. 1929)
- February 5-Belle Starr American outlaw (d. 1889)
- September 4 – Lewis Howard Latimer, African-American inventor (d. 1928)
- November 20 – James M. Spangler, American inventor (d. 1915)
Departures
- January 21 – Horace Wells (January 21, 1815 – January 24, 1848) was an American dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia in medicine, specifically the use of nitrous oxide (or laughing gas).
- February 23 – John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States, son of John Adams and Abigail Adams (b. 1767)
- August 14 – Sarah Fuller Flower Adams, English hymnwriter (b. 1805)
- December 19 – Emily Brontë, English author (b. 1818)
Publications Hot of the Press
- January 22,1848 – The second edition of Charlotte Brontë‘s Jane Eyre is dedicated to William Makepeace Thackeray.[1] It is also first published in the United States this year.
- February 21,1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto (Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) in London.
Good Sports
First publication of the Knickerbocker rules of Baseball.
Sanctifying Time
- November 5, 1848– Pellegrino Rossi the minister of justice in the government of the Papal States, under Pope Pius IX, was going to preside of the opening of the Parliament in the Palazzo della Cancelleria. After exiting his carriage and walking towards the entrance, he was killed by an assassin who stabbed him in the neck. The pope seeing the inevitable imposition of democracy for his state, fled from Rome in disguise for Naples, leading to the proclamation of the Roman Republic.
The Sound of Music and Other Cultural Milestones
Oh! Susanna!” by Stephen Foster
1849
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News of the World
- February 14, 1849 – In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
- March 4, 1849 –Zachary Taylor becomes the 12th president of the United States, but refuses to be sworn into office on a Sunday. Urban legend holds that David Rice Atchison, President pro tempore of the United States Senate, is President de jure for a single day.
Mysterious World
- November 14, 1849 –Communication with the Dead The Fox sisters Leah (April 8, 1813 – November 1, 1890), Margaretta (also called Maggie), (October 7, 1833 – March 8, 1893) and Catherine Fox (also called Kate) (March 27, 1837 – July 2, 1892) demonst their spiritualist rapping at the Corinthian Hall in Rochester. This was the first demonstration of spiritualism held before a paying public and inaugurated a long history of public events featured by spiritualist mediums and leaders in the United States and in other countries.
Arrivals
Lord Randolph Churchill, (February 13, 1849 – January 24, 1895) was a British aristocrat and politician. Churchill was a Tory radical and coined the term ‘Tory democracy‘. He participated in the creation of the National Union of the Conservative Party. His elder son was Winston Churchill, who wrote a biography of him in 1906.
Michael Ancher (June 9, 1849 – September 19, 1927) was a Danish realist artist, and widely known for his paintings of fishermen, the Skagerak and the North Sea, and other scenes from the Danish fishing community in Skagen.
Departures
- October 3 – Death of Edgar Allan Poe: Edgar Allan Poe is found in Baltimore delirious, “in great distress, and… in need of immediate assistance”.[7] He dies on October 7 aged 40, of an uncertain cause, in Washington College Hospital. – American Catholic History
- October 17, 1849 Frédéric Chopin (March 1, 1810 – October 17, 1849) dies. He was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose “poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation.
- Marie Rose Durocher SNJM (October 6, 1811 – October 6, 1849) dies. She was a Canadian Catholic religious sister who founded the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary.
Publications Hot of the Press
- Charles Dickens – David Copperfield (begins serialization)
- Francis Parkman – The Oregon Trail
Good Sports
- March 29 — the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, last contested in 1846, is revived and this 9th race is won by Cambridge
- December 15 — Oxford is awarded the 10th Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race following the disqualification of Cambridge. This is the first and last time that the race is contested twice in the same year.
Sanctifying Time
- Ubi Primum – On The Immaculate Conception, by Pope Pius IX, February 2, 1849
- Nostis et Nobiscum – On The Church In The Pontifical States, by Pope Pius IX, December 8, 1849
The Sound of Music and Other Cultural Milestones
Once in Royal David’s City“, words: Cecil Frances Alexander, music: Henry Gauntlett. The words were written as a poem by Mrs Alexander in 1848.
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