Timeline July 1848

Events in July 1848 6

• 1768 – 1848 François-René de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) Died 4 July 1848, aged 79 French writer, diplomat and statesman, a founder of Romanticism in French literature. His works include Atala, René and the memoirs Mémoires d'outre-tombe, which were published after his death. He was buried on the island of Grand Bé off Saint-Malo.
• 1848 Slavery abolished in the Danish West Indies Governor von Scholten proclaims emancipation After a slave revolt on St. Croix, Governor-General Peter von Scholten declared all enslaved people in the Danish West Indies free on 3 July. He acted without authority from Copenhagen. The colony is now the US Virgin Islands.
• 1848 Washington Monument cornerstone laid Construction begins on the memorial in the capital The cornerstone of the Washington Monument was laid in Washington, D.C. on 4 July. Building stopped in 1854 for lack of money and because of the Civil War. The obelisk was finished in 1884.
• 1848 Seneca Falls Convention First women's rights convention in the United States Organised by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, the convention met at Seneca Falls, New York, on 19 and 20 July. It adopted the Declaration of Sentiments, which included a demand for women's suffrage. It is widely seen as the start of the American women's rights movement.
• 1848 Battle of Custoza Austria defeats Piedmont-Sardinia Austrian forces under Marshal Radetzky defeated the army of Charles Albert of Sardinia near Verona on 24 and 25 July. The Austrians retook Milan soon afterwards. An armistice in August halted the first campaign of the First Italian War of Independence.
• 1848 Young Irelander Rebellion Short-lived rising at Ballingarry Young Ireland nationalists led by William Smith O'Brien rose during the Great Famine. Police besieged in Widow McCormack's house at Ballingarry, County Tipperary, held them off on 29 July and the rising collapsed. Its leaders were transported to Van Diemen's Land.