1846: The Royal Geographical Society awards Paweł Edmund Strzelecki a Gold Medal "for exploration in the south eastern portion of Australia".[
1846: The Saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax.
1846: Rotary printing press invented, making rapid printing of newspapers possible.
30 May 1846: Gezina Schopman is born in Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland.
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1847: Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the U.S government.
1847: Charlotte Brontë publishes Jane Eyre under the pen name of Currer Bell.
1847: Emily Brontë publishes Wuthering Heights under the pen name of Ellis Bell.
1847: German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.
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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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