1848

Events 
 February 24 – The February Revolution begins.

 Births 
 February 27 – Hubert Parry, English composer
 March 19 – James Otis, American children's writer
 June 7 – Paul Gauguin, French painter

 Deaths 
 February 23 – John Quincy Adams, 80, sixth President of the United States, stroke (b. 1767)

 New Books 
 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray