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...

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...

The Panic of 1847 was a major British commercial and banking crisis, possibly triggered by the announcement in early March 1847 of government borrowing...

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...

The Doctrine of Lapse (1847): Lord Dalhousie, the Governor-General of India, introduced this policy, allowing the British to annex Indian princely states...

Events from the year 1847 in Canada. Monarch: Victoria Parliament: 2nd (until December) Governor General of the Province of Canada: Charles Cathcart, 2nd...

The year 1847 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. July 1 – German amateur astronomer Karl Ludwig Hencke discovers...

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author who is best known for writing the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. During...

1847 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. Events Army of occupation plays baseball in Santa Barbara, California, alienating the local...

loosely translates to "the hard times". The worst year of the famine was 1847, which became known as "Black '47". The population of Ireland on the eve...