Year in review
1848
9 recaps from this year - events, occasions, and cultural moments.
18481848 Revolutions Sweep Europe
Liberal and nationalist uprisings across Europe challenged monarchical order from Paris to Vienna to Prague, reshaping political consciousness despite their ultimate suppression.
1848Revolutions across Europe
1848Communist Manifesto published
1848California Gold Rush begins
1848French Legislative Election
The first universal male-suffrage election in Europe, held after the February Revolution, reshaping democratic participation.
1848Universal Male Suffrage in France
The Second Republic's extension of voting rights to all men established democratic precedent across Europe and triggered political upheaval.
1848First Gold Rush at Sutters Mill
The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in California triggered a massive migration that reshaped the American West, preceded the formal California Gold Rush of 1849, and marked the beginning of industrial-scale prospecting in North America.
1848Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention
The founding assembly of the organized women's suffrage movement in North America, producing the Declaration of Sentiments.
18481848 U.S. Presidential Election
Zachary Taylor's Whig victory hardened the slavery divide, as Free Soil candidates drew votes on westward expansion, accelerating sectional conflict toward civil war.