1848

1848 (MDCCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1848th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 848th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1840s decade. As of the start of 1848, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1810s  1820s  1830s  – 1840s –  1850s  1860s  1870s
Years:	1845 1846 1847 – 1848 – 1849 1850 1851

1848 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1848 MDCCCXLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2601
Armenian calendar	1297 ԹՎ ՌՄՂԷ
Assyrian calendar	6598
Bahá'í calendar	4–5
Balinese saka calendar	1769–1770
Bengali calendar	1255
Berber calendar	2798
British Regnal year	11 Vict. 1 – 12 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2392
Burmese calendar	1210
Byzantine calendar	7356–7357
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4544 or 4484     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4545 or 4485
Coptic calendar	1564–1565
Discordian calendar	3014
Ethiopian calendar	1840–1841
Hebrew calendar	5608–5609
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1904–1905
- Shaka Samvat	1769–1770
- Kali Yuga	4948–4949
Holocene calendar	11848
Igbo calendar	848–849
Iranian calendar	1226–1227
Islamic calendar	1264–1265
Japanese calendar	Kōka 5 / Kaei 1 (嘉永元年)
Javanese calendar	1775–1777
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4181
Minguo calendar	64 before ROC 民前64年
Nanakshahi calendar	380
Thai solar calendar	2390–2391
Tibetan calendar	阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 1974 or 1593 or 821     — to — 阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 1975 or 1594 or 822

Events

• February 24 – The February Revolution begins.

Births

• February 27 – Hubert Parry, English composer
• March 19 – James Otis, American children's writer
• June 7 – Paul Gauguin, French painter

Deaths

• February 23 – John Quincy Adams

New Books

• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray