This is the story of the 1848 European revolutions, one of the most dramatic and significant moments in the history of the ...

An 1849 handbill from the California Gold Rush. PD. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill on January 24, 1848 unleashed the largest migration in United States history and drew people from a dozen ...

The Irish flag - or, in Irish, the 'Bratach na hÉireann' – was flown publicly for the first time on March 7, 1848 during that year's Young Irelander Rebellion in Waterford City at the Wolfe ...

These ideas were given fresh impetus in 1848 with the foundation of the Swiss Federal State. In only its second session, the new Parliament argued at length over whether a national educational ...