Timeline May 1848

Events in May 1848 2

• 1797 – 1848 Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797-1848) Died 24 May 1848, aged 51 German poet and novelist, among the most important German women writers of the 19th century. Her novella Die Judenbuche is a classic of German literature. She died at Meersburg on Lake Constance.
• 1848 Wisconsin admitted to the Union Becomes the 30th US state Wisconsin was admitted as the 30th state of the United States on 29 May. Its capital was Madison. Its population had grown fast through immigration from the eastern states and from Germany and Scandinavia.