1847

Events
 The book Wuthering Heights is published
 February 22 – The Battle of Buena Vista in the Mexican–American War
 March 29 – Veracruz is taken by General Winfield Scott
 May 7 – The American Medical Association is founded
 July 24 – The Mormon pioneers under Brigham Young arrive in Salt Lake City to begin settling Utah.
 July 26 – Liberia becomes a country

Births
 February 11 – Thomas Edison
 March 3 – Alexander Graham Bell
 April 10 – Joseph Pulitzer
 September 5 – Jesse James

 Deaths 
 March 11 – Johnny Appleseed
 November 4 – Felix Mendelssohn