1848: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
1848: Great Britain's first public health law, which creates a national health board and gives cities broad authority to build modern sanitary systems, is passed.
1848: 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.
9 Jul 1848: Gerrit Jan Stegehuis is born in Ambt Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland.
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1849: Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1849: Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, thus becoming the United States' first woman doctor.
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1850: American Express is founded by Henry Wells & William Fargo.
1850: The Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX.
1848 - 1850 (2 years)
