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The second session of the 30th Congress opens in Washington, DC |
| Education/Culture |
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The Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania opens in Philadelphia |
| Education/Culture |
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Massachusetts school for the mentally afflicted opens in South Boston |
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A unified Swiss Confederation is formed |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The 30th Congress ends its first session in Washington, DC |
| Dickinsonian |
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Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies |
| Slavery/Abolition |
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Danish government plans a ten-year abolition in the Danish West Indies but local slaves demand immediate freedom |
| Science/Technology |
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The first woman is elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Commercial |
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The ice cream freezer is patented in Baltimore |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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The Democrats nominate Lewis Cass and William Orlando Butler |
| Foreign |
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Representatives from many German states meet in Frankfurt to discuss German unification |
| US/the World |
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The new republican government of France declares all slaves in French colonies to be free |
| Education/Culture |
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The Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania is incorporated in Philadelphia |
| Education/Culture |
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Verdi's opera "Nabucco" has its United States premiere in New York City |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Pennsylvania adopts the nation's first state child labor law |
| Foreign |
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Louis Philippe abdicates the throne in France and republicans take power |
| Education/Culture |
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto in London |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The United States and Mexico sign the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| Business/Industry |
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Gold discovered in California |
| Slavery/Abolition |
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Joseph Jenkins Roberts inaugurated as the first president of newly independent Liberia |
| Education/Culture |
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The first comic weekly paper in the United States is published in Philadelphia |
| Legal/Political |
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The 30th Congress is in session in Washington, DC, sitting from early December, 1847 till mid-August, 1848 |
| Legal/Political |
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The 30th Congress of the United States opens in Washington, DC |
| US/the World |
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Civil war erupts in Switzerland |
| Foreign |
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Louis Philippe of France names the moderate liberal François Guizot as prime minister |
| Legal/Political |
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The McClintock Riot trial is held in Carlisle, Pennsylvania |
| Slavery/Abolition |
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Joseph Jenkins Roberts declares the creation of the independent Republic of Liberia |
| Foreign |
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The Catholic cantons (provinces) of Switzerland refuse to disband their paramilitary forces |
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In France, liberal politicians hold the first in a series of constitutional reform "banquets" |
| Dickinsonian |
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Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies |
