Timeline December 1848

Events in December 1848 4

• 1781 – 1848 Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848) Died 18 December 1848, aged 67 Bohemian mathematician, philosopher and priest who worked in Prague. He did pioneering work on the foundations of analysis, including the Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem and the intermediate value theorem. Much of his work was recognised only after his death.
• 1818 – 1848 Emily Brontë (1818-1848) Died 19 December 1848, aged 30 English novelist and poet whose only novel is Wuthering Heights, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. She died of tuberculosis at Haworth Parsonage three months after her brother Branwell. Wuthering Heights is now considered a classic of English literature.
• 1848 Franz Joseph I becomes Emperor of Austria Ferdinand I abdicates in his nephew's favour At Olmütz on 2 December, Emperor Ferdinand I abdicated and his 18-year-old nephew Franz Joseph took the throne. Franz Joseph went on to rule for 68 years, until his death in 1916. His reign began with the suppression of the revolutions in Hungary and Italy.
• 1848 Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte elected President of France Landslide win in the first French presidential election Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, nephew of Napoleon I, won about 74 percent of the vote in the election of 10 and 11 December. He defeated General Cavaignac and Alexandre Ledru-Rollin. He seized dictatorial power in 1851 and made himself Emperor Napoleon III in 1852.