1848 in the United States
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1820s  1830s  – 1840s –  1850s  1860s
Years:	1845 1846 1847 – 1848 – 1849 1850 1851
Flag:	30 stars (1848 – 1851)

Events from the year 1848 in the United States.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January–March 1.2 April–June 1.3 July–September 1.4 October–December 1.5 Undated 2 External links

[ Events

[ January–March

• January 24 – California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill, in Coloma, California.
• January 31 – The Washington Monument is established.
• February 2 – Mexican–American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the war and ceding to the United States virtually all of what is today the southwest of that country.

[ April–June

• May 19 – The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican-American War, is ratified by the Mexican government. (cf. February 2, above.)
• May 29 – Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.

[ July–September

• July 19 – Women's rights – Seneca Falls Convention: The 2-day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York and the "Bloomers" are introduced at the feminist convention.
• August 19 – 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).
• September 12 – One of the successes of the Revolutions of 1848, the Swiss Federal Constitution, patterned on the US Constitution, enters into force, creating a federal republic and one of the first modern democratic states in Europe.
• September 13 – Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage incredibly survives a 3-foot-plus iron rod being driven through his head.

[ October–December

• November 1 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merges with Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
• November 7 – U.S. presidential election, 1848: Whig Zachary Taylor of Louisiana defeats Democrat Lewis Cass of Michigan in the first US presidential election held in every state on the same day.
• December 26 – The Phi Delta Theta fraternity is founded at Miami University.

[ Undated

• A cholera epidemic in New York kills 5,000.
• The Associated Press founded in New York.
• The Boston Public Library is founded by an act of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts.
• The Shaker song Simple Gifts is written by Joseph Brackett in Alfred, Maine.
• The Illinois and Michigan Canal is completed.
• The University of Mississippi is founded.
• The University of Wisconsin–Madison is founded.
• Geneva College in Pennsylvania is founded.

[ External links

• Media related to 1848 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons