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Technology
- The use of wood to make pulp for paper began
- First use of general anesthesia in an operation, by Crawford Long
- The first electrical telegraph sent by Samuel Morse on May 24, 1844 from Baltimore to Washington, D.C..
Art and culture
- Cultural movements: bohemianism - Club des Hashischins - Victorian age
- Technological developments: illustrated newspapers - daguerrotype
- Literary scene: Honoré de Balzac - Victor Hugo - Ludwig Feuerbach - Nikolai Gogol - Charles Baudelaire - Søren Kierkegaard - Edgar Allan Poe - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Eugène Sue
- The world's first illustrated newspaper, the invention of the daguerrotype and other advances in the field of mechanical reproduction led to the development of a visual culture that would be of prime importance to later art movements such as impressionism.
- The use of the term Modern art was first attested in 1849, it took another 14 years to produce the first recognized works of modern art: "The Lunch on the Grass" (1863) and "Olympia" (1863), both by Edouard Manet.
- In Paris - the capital of the artistic world - Bohemianism, a romanticized image of the struggling artist is developed as a concept in the works of Honoré de Balzac and others.
- Rain, Steam and Speed (1844) by William Turner, a a precursor to Impressionism
- Vicomtesse d’Haussonville (1845) - Ingres
- Wave of revolutions in Europe. Collectively known as the Revolution of 1848. This led to mass emigration of these refugees into industrial cities of the United States as well as to other locations around the world.
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels writes The Communist Manifesto, first published on February 21, 1848.
- John Stuart Mill writes The Principles of Political Economy, first published in 1848
- Søren Kierkegaard publishes Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, Philosophical Fragments and The Sickness Unto Death
- First wave of drug writing in France, see Club des Hashischins
- Un autre monde by Grandville
- The Great Sphinx of Giza (photo by Maxime Du Camp), 1849
- What Is Property?, 1840, by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Births
Odilon Redon - Richard von Krafft-Ebing - Claude Monet - Émile Zola - Henry James - Anthony Comstock - Friedrich Nietzsche - Thomas Eakins - Henri Rousseau - Comte de Lautréamont - Thomas Edison - Octave Mirbeau - Joris Karl Huysmans
Deaths
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