Historical figures in 1849

The atlas holds 29 people and 53 moments here, in 1849. The most recorded lives are Friedrich Engels, James K. Polk and Karl Marx. Among them Writers, Scientists and Political Leaders.

Notable people

  1. Abraham Lincoln

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    American lawyer, Illinois legislator, congressman, and sixteenth president of the United States.…

  2. Alexandre Dumas

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    French novelist, playwright, journalist, and travel writer, also known as Alexandre Dumas père.…

  3. Charles Darwin

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    English naturalist, geologist, and biologist whose observations during the global voyage of HMS Beagle and subsequent research led to his theory of…

  4. Charles Dickens

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    English novelist, journalist, editor, social reformer, actor and celebrated public reader. This chronology traces documented residences, workplaces,…

  5. Dmitri Mendeleev

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    Russian chemist Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev formulated the periodic law and produced a foundational periodic table.…

  6. Edgar Allan Poe

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    American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic whose work helped shape Gothic fiction, detective fiction, and early science fiction.…

  7. Edmund Barton

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    Australian barrister, federation leader, first prime minister of Australia (1901–1903), and founding justice of the High Court of Australia.…

  8. Frédéric Chopin

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    Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the early Romantic period. Born in Żelazowa Wola, he grew up and trained in Warsaw, travelled through Central…

  9. Friedrich Engels

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    German philosopher, political theorist, revolutionary socialist, businessman, and Karl Marx’s lifelong collaborator.…

  10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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    Russian novelist, journalist, essayist, and former military engineer whose life moved between Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Siberian imprisonment and…

  11. George Eliot

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    Mary Ann Evans, known by the pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, translator, journalist, and poet.…

  12. Giuseppe Verdi

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    Italian composer whose career transformed nineteenth-century opera. Born near Busseto, Verdi studied and worked in Busseto and Milan, then traveled…

  13. Gustave Flaubert

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    French novelist and major exponent of literary realism, best known for Madame Bovary, Salammbô, Sentimental Education, Three Tales, and his extensive…

  14. Harriet Beecher Stowe

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    American author and abolitionist best known for Uncle Tom's Cabin. Her documented life included formative years in Connecticut, a long residence in…

  15. Henry David Thoreau

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    American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher associated with transcendentalism. Thoreau lived chiefly in and around Concord, Massachusetts,…

  16. Hokusai

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    Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, painter, and printmaker. His documented physical-presence chronology is concentrated in…

  17. James K. Polk

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    James Knox Polk was the eleventh president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849. Born in North Carolina and raised largely in Tennessee,…

  18. Johannes Brahms

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    German composer, pianist, and conductor of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms developed as a performer there before touring Central Europe,…

  19. Karl Marx

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    German philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Born in Trier, Marx studied in Bonn and Berlin, worked in Cologne, and…

  20. Louis Pasteur

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    French chemist and microbiologist whose work on molecular asymmetry, fermentation, germ theory, pasteurization, and vaccines transformed modern…

  21. Millard Fillmore

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    Millard Fillmore was an American lawyer and politician from western New York who served in the New York Assembly, the U.S.…

  22. Muhammad Ali of Egypt

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    Ottoman Albanian military commander and wālī of Egypt from 1805 to 1848. Muhammad Ali consolidated power in Egypt, undertook campaigns in Arabia and…

  23. Queen Victoria

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    Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 1819–1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death, and…

  24. Richard Wagner

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    German composer, conductor, theatre director, and essayist whose movements included early work in German theatre, exile in Switzerland, stays in…

Moments

  1. 1849 Returned to Springfield law practice Abraham Lincoln
  2. 1849 Journey to Moscow for university admission Dmitri Mendeleev
  3. 1849 Birth at Glebe Edmund Barton
  4. 1849 Summer apartment at Chaillot Frédéric Chopin
  5. 1849 Refugee reunion Friedrich Engels
  6. 1849 Return to Cologne Friedrich Engels
  7. 1849 Residence in Geneva George Eliot
  8. 1849 Cincinnati correspondence during cholera Harriet Beecher Stowe
  9. 1849 First Cape Cod excursion Henry David Thoreau
  10. 1849 Final journey through Alabama James K. Polk
  11. 1849 Illness in New Orleans James K. Polk
  12. 1849 First visit to Ireland Queen Victoria
  13. 1849 Exile in Zürich Richard Wagner
  14. 1849 Flight through Paris Richard Wagner
  15. 1849 Residence at Rosenborggade 7 Søren Kierkegaard
  16. 1849 Madison Barracks assignment Ulysses S. Grant
  17. 1849 Chairs the Paris Peace Congress Victor Hugo
  18. 1849 Visits to Paris William Makepeace Thackeray
  19. 1849 Stands trial in Cologne Karl Marx
  20. 1849 Arrival as president-elect Zachary Taylor
  21. 1849 Residence at Château de Monte-Cristo Alexandre Dumas
  22. 1849 Begins hydrotherapy at Malvern Charles Darwin
  23. 1849 Final departure from Washington James K. Polk
  24. 1849 Vice-presidential oath Millard Fillmore
  25. 1849 Presidential inauguration Zachary Taylor
  26. 1849 Arrival home in Nashville James K. Polk
  27. 1849 Second piano recital Johannes Brahms
  28. 1849 Elberfeld uprising Friedrich Engels
  29. 1849 Journey to the Baden-Palatinate front Friedrich Engels
  30. 1849 Workers' detachment at Solingen Friedrich Engels
  31. 1849 Imprisoned in the Alexeyevsky Ravelin Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  32. 1849 Death at Henjōin precincts Hokusai
  33. 1849 Marriage in Strasbourg Louis Pasteur
  34. 1849 Baden-Palatinate campaign march Friedrich Engels
  35. 1849 Night with Palatinate battalion Friedrich Engels
  36. 1849 Skirmish near Michelbach Friedrich Engels
  37. 1849 Death at Polk Place James K. Polk
  38. 1849 Returns to Paris after expulsion from Prussia Karl Marx
  39. 1849 Summers at Bonchurch Charles Dickens
  40. 1849 Crossing into Swiss exile Friedrich Engels
  41. 1849 Departure from Paris Giuseppe Verdi
  42. 1849 Return to Busseto for Luisa Miller Giuseppe Verdi
  43. 1849 The Poetic Principle lecture Edgar Allan Poe
  44. 1849 Arrives as an exile in London Karl Marx
  45. 1849 Death at Ras el-Tin Palace Muhammad Ali of Egypt
  46. 1849 Final apartment at Place Vendôme Frédéric Chopin
  47. 1849 Death at Washington Medical College Edgar Allan Poe
  48. 1849 Found in distress in Baltimore Edgar Allan Poe
  49. 1849 Death in Paris Frédéric Chopin
  50. 1849 Arrival in Alexandria Gustave Flaubert

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