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 1788 - 1848 (60 years)
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| 1 | 1847 | - 1847: UK - Flourens discovered the anesthetic properties of chloroform
- 1847: USA - Levi Strauss invents denim jeans
- 1847: UK - Hungarian Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
- 1847: CA - St. Lawrence canal system completed. Faster and cheaper than US system, but growing US railroads are now the real threat.
- 1847: CA - Typhus outbreak as over 3,000 immigrants arrive in Bytown (Ottawa) in the height of summer. The Rideau Canal is shutdown to prevent further spread of the outbreak. 167 die in quarantine.
- 1847: CA/US - Outbreak of measles among the Cayuse of the Pacific Northwest.
- 1847: NL - Een duur jaar, een 6 ponds roggebrood kost 67,5 cent.
- 30 Jan 1847: CA - Lord Elgin, Governor, arrives at Montreal.
- 1 Sep 1847: CA - Lord Elgin visits the immigrant 'fever' sheds at Pointe St. Charles, Montreal.
- 18 Oct 1847: CA - Telegraph Line from Quebec to London, Canada West, complete.
- 23 Oct 1847: CA - 65 immigrants die in a week at Pointe St. Charles neighbourhood of Montreal.
- 1 Nov 1847: CA - 9,634 deaths of immigrants since 1st Jan
- 19 Nov 1847: CA - The railway from Montreal to Lachine is opened.
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| 2 | 1848 | - 1848: UK - Major Chartist demonstration in London.
- 1848: UK - Parliament passes the Public Health Act
- 1848: UK - Karl Marx publishes The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital
- 1848: UK - 5000 miles of railway tracks now laid, 2000 of which were equipped with telegraph wires; Britain now produces about half of world's pig iron, trebles output within 30 years
- 1848: UK - Queen's College for Women founded
- 1848: CA - First telegraph lines in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
- 1848: NL - Grondwetsherziening door Thorbecke.
- 1848: NL - Aanleg van de weg Assen-Bareveld voltooid.
- 2 Jan 1848: CA - Maple sugar is made in St. Anselme.
- 20 Sep 1848: CA - Opening of the Jesuits' College, Montreal.
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