Timeline December 1847

Events in December 1847 3

• 1847 Irish Famine at its worst: Black '47 The deadliest year of the Great Famine in Ireland Mass starvation and disease, especially typhus, killed vast numbers across Ireland in what became known as Black '47. Soup kitchens opened under the Temporary Relief Act in the spring. Hundreds of thousands emigrated, many dying on crowded coffin ships.
• 1847 Communist League founded in London Marx and Engels are commissioned to write its manifesto The League of the Just reorganised itself as the Communist League at a congress in London in June. At its second congress in November and December, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were asked to draft its programme. The result was the Communist Manifesto of 1848.
• 1847 Wuthering Heights published Emily Brontë's only novel appears under the name Ellis Bell Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights was published in London by Thomas Cautley Newby under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. Initial reviews were mixed and often hostile. It later came to be regarded as a classic of English literature.