February 2 - The end of the Mexican-American War.

February 2 - The first batch of Chinese immigrants with gold mining dreams arrived in San Francisco.

February 21 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published the "Communist Manifesto".

February 25 - February Revolution in France, the July Monarchy was overthrown.

In March, the Qingpu religious incident occurred.

March 15 - The Hungarian Revolution broke out in 1848. Petofi led the citizens' uprising against Austria and recited the political poem "Song of the Nation" to the rebels.

March 20 - Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.

March 23 - Otago becomes a province of New Zealand.

April 6—Yang Xiuqing for the first time pretended to be possessed by Heavenly Father.

May 18—Germany’s first German National Congress was held in Frankfurt.

May 29 - Wisconsin becomes the 30th state in the United States.

June 22 - The June Uprising broke out in France.

July 11th - Waterloo Station in the UK opens to traffic.

August 11th - The Revolution of Venice was restored.

August 17 - Yucatan officially becomes part of Mexico.

September 12—Swiss Federal Council adopts the constitution.

September 16 - Rhea was discovered.

November 4 - The Second French Republic is established.

December 2 - Austrian Emperor Ferdinand I abdicates the throne to his nephew Franz Joseph.

December 10 - Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte was elected as the first president of the Second French Republic.

December 20 - Napoleon III: President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte is sworn in before the French National Assembly.

1848——Hong Xiuquan wrote "Yuan Dao Jue Shi Xun".

1848 - Shanghai Laofengxiang Silver Building opened, creating a century brand in the Chinese jewelry industry and leading the fashion for more than a hundred years.

1848 - The world's first relatively standardized futures exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), was established