Editing 1848 (section)

=== January–March ===
* [[January 3]] – [[Joseph Jenkins Roberts]] is sworn in as the first [[President of Liberia|president]] of the independent African [[Republic of Liberia]].
* [[January 12]] – [[Sicilian revolution of 1848]]: The Palermo rising erupts in [[Sicily]] against the [[House of Bourbon|Bourbon]] [[Kingdom of the Two Sicilies]].
* [[January 24]] – [[California Gold Rush]]: [[James W. Marshall]] finds [[gold]] at [[Sutter's Mill]], in [[Coloma, California]].
* [[January 31]] – In the United States:
** Construction of the [[Washington Monument]] begins in Washington, D.C.
** [[John C. Frémont]] is court-martialed on grounds of mutiny and disobeying orders. The verdict is set aside by U.S. President [[James K. Polk]], but Frémont retires to [[California Territory]].
* [[February 2]]
** [[Mexican–American War]]: [[Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo]] – Mexico cedes virtually all of what becomes the [[Southwestern United States]] to the U.S. The unincorporated [[California Territory]] becomes a provisional official possession; it is never organized by the [[United States Congress]] as a [[Territories of the United States|territory]], but directly passes the requirements for statehood in [[1850]].
** [[John Henry Newman]] founds the first [[Oratory of Saint Philip Neri|Oratory]] in the English-speaking world, when he establishes the [[Birmingham Oratory]] at 'Maryvale', [[Old Oscott]], England.
* [[February 17]] – [[John Bird Sumner]] is nominated as [[Archbishop of Canterbury]].
* [[February 21]] – [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]] publish ''[[The Communist Manifesto]]'' (''Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei'') in London.
* [[February 23]] – [[French Revolution of 1848]]: [[François Guizot]], [[Prime Minister of France]], resigns; 52 people from the Paris mob are killed by soldiers guarding public buildings.
* [[February 24]] – [[Louis Philippe I]], King of the French, abdicates in favour of his grandson, [[Prince Philippe, Count of Paris]], and flees to England after days of revolution in Paris. The [[French Second Republic]] is later proclaimed by [[Alphonse de Lamartine]], in the name of the provisional government elected by the Chamber, under the pressure of the mob.
* [[March 2]] – The [[Marsoroligheterna|March Unrest]] breaks out in Sweden.
* [[March 4]] –  [[Charles Albert of Savoy|Carlo Alberto di Savoia]] signs the ''[[Statuto Albertino]]'' that will later represent the first [[Constitution of Italy|constitution]] of the ''[[Italy|Regno d'Italia]]''.
* [[March 7]] – [[Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris]], predecessor of European bank [[BNP Paribas]], is founded by decree of the [[French Provisional Government of 1848|French Provisional Government]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/hes_0752-5702_2002_num_21_3_2310|last=Stoskopf|first=Nicolas|title=La fondation du comptoir national d'escompte de Paris, banque révolutionnaire (1848)|journal=Histoire, Économie et Société|year=2002|volume=21|issue=3 |pages=395–411|access-date=2012-06-15|doi=10.3406/hes.2002.2310}}</ref>
* [[March 11]] – [[Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine]] and [[Robert Baldwin]] become the first [[Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada]] to be democratically elected under a system of [[responsible government]].
* [[March 13]] – Prince [[Klemens von Metternich]] gives up office as [[State Chancellor of the Austrian Empire|State Chancellor]] and [[Foreign Minister of the Austrian Empire]].
* [[March 15]] – [[Hungarian Revolution of 1848]]: The Hungarian young revolutionary intellectuals, led by [[Sándor Petőfi]], [[Mór Jókai]] and others, called the Márciusi Ifjak (Young men of March) organize peaceful mass demonstrations in Pest, forcing the city's Habsburg authorities to accept the [[12 points of the Hungarian Revolutionaries of 1848|12 Points]]: the Hungarian claim for freedom and [[self-determination]] within the [[Austrian Empire|Habsburg Empire]]. On the same day, [[Lajos Kossuth]] and representatives of the [[Diet of Hungary]] go to [[Vienna]], and force the emperor and Hungarian king [[Ferdinand I of Austria]] to accept Hungarian claims for self-determination within the empire.
* [[March 18]]
** At a [[Berlin]] barricade, fighting between revolutionaries and royalist forces marks the culmination of the [[German revolutions of 1848–49]]. As a result, King [[Frederick William IV of Prussia]] is forced to appoint a liberal government.
** The [[Boston Public Library]] is founded by an act of the [[Great and General Court]] of [[Massachusetts]].
* [[March 22]] – The [[Republic of San Marco]] comes into existence in [[Venice]].
* [[March 23]] – The settlement of [[Dunedin]], [[New Zealand]] is founded, with the arrival of settlers from Scotland on board the ''[[John Wickliffe (ship)|John Wickliffe]]''.
* [[March 24]] – The [[First Schleswig War]] ({{langx|de|Schleswig-Holsteinischer Krieg|links=no}}, or Three Years' War ({{langx|da|Treårskrigen|links=no}})), a military conflict in southern Denmark and northern Germany rooted in the [[Schleswig-Holstein Question]], contesting the issue of who should control the Duchies of [[Duchy of Schleswig|Schleswig]] and [[Holstein]], begins.
* [[March 29]] – [[Queen's College, London]], founded, the world's first school to award academic qualifications to young women.