• Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1847. 1847 (MDCCCXLVII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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    various dates in various states between August 2, 1846, and November 2, 1847. Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives...
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    legislatures. Senators were elected over a wide range of time throughout 1846 and 1847, and a seat may have been filled months late or remained vacant due to legislative...
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  • The Panic of 1847 was a major British commercial and banking crisis, possibly triggered by the announcement in early March 1847 of government borrowing...
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  • of the United States. She was commissioned into the United States Navy in 1847 for service in the Mexican–American War, then returned to Coast Survey service...
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    The 1847 United Kingdom general election was conducted between 29 July 1847 and 26 August 1847 and resulted in the Whigs in control of government despite...
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    Abraham Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author who is best known for writing the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. During his lifetime...
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    NGC 1847". SIMBAD. Retrieved 7 December 2018. Seligman, Courtney. "NGC 1847". Celestial Atlas. Retrieved 7 December 2018. Media related to NGC 1847 at...
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    The Factories Act 1847, also known as the Ten Hours Act was a United Kingdom Act of Parliament which restricted the working hours of women and young persons...
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    loosely translates to "the hard times". The worst year of the famine was 1847, which became known as "Black '47". During the Great Hunger, roughly 1 million...
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  • Westward 1847 (also punctuated as Westward-1847) is a 1979 video game written by Jon C. Sherman published by The Software Exchange for the TRS-80 16K....
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    Annie Besant (née Wood; 1 October 1847 – 20 September 1933) was a British socialist, theosophist, freemason, women's rights and Home Rule activist, educationist...
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  • Events from the year 1847 in the United States. President: James K. Polk (D-Tennessee) Vice President: George M. Dallas (D-Pennsylvania) Chief Justice:...
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    the "Blue Books" are a three-part publication by the British Government in 1847, which caused uproar in Wales for disparaging the Welsh; being particularly...
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  • Events from the year 1847 in Poland September 12 – Wacław Mayzel, histologist (d. 1916) October 16 – Arnold Fibiger, piano builder and industrialist (d...
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  • 1847 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. Events Army of occupation plays baseball in Santa Barbara, California, alienating the local...
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  • The year 1847 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. July 1 – German amateur astronomer Karl Ludwig Hencke discovers...
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  • 1847 Stobbe, provisional designation A916 CA, is an asteroid from the middle region of the asteroid belt, approximately 23 kilometers in diameter. It was...
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    Jacobus "James" Roosevelt III (January 10, 1760 – February 6, 1847) was an American businessman and politician from New York City and a member of the Roosevelt...
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  • The Springfield Model 1847 was a percussion lock musketoon produced by the Springfield Armory in the mid-19th century. Muskets were designed for a dual...
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    Events from the year 1847 in Canada. Monarch: Victoria Parliament: 2nd (until December) Governor General of the Province of Canada: Charles Cathcart, 2nd...
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    The Irish Poor Law Extension Act 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 31) was an 1847 act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which altered the Irish Poor Law system...
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    the Chesapeake Bay. Her keel was laid down by the New York Navy Yard in 1847. She was launched on 5 April 1850 and was commissioned on 24 December 1850...
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    by Sir George Grey on 29 November 1847, and was passed by both houses; it received royal assent on 20 December 1847. It was passed because of growing...
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    removed from the name by Queen Victoria in 1847. Letters Patent dated 14 April 1847, quoted in Statutes 1847. Statutes 1725, although Risk says 11 May...
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    War. The well-organized wagon train migration began in earnest in April 1847, and the period (including the flight from Missouri in 1838 to Nauvoo), known...
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  • The typhus epidemic of 1847 was an outbreak of epidemic typhus caused by a massive Irish emigration in 1847, during the Great Famine, aboard crowded and...
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  • article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1847. January – Vanity Fair: Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society begins...
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    [ʒyl də pɔliɲak]; 14 May 1780 – 30 March 1847), then Prince of Polignac, and briefly 3rd Duke of Polignac in 1847, was a French statesman and ultra-royalist...
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