In history, year 1847 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1847.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 04 january | American gun inventor Samuel Colt made his first large sale of his revolvers to the Texas Rangers. |
| 30 january | The town of Yerba Buena in Mexican California was renamed San Francisco. |
| 23 february | Mexican–American War-The United States Army used heavyartillery to repulse the much larger Mexican army at the Battle of BuenaVista near Saltillo, Coahuila. |
| 09 march | Mexican–American War-The Siege of Veracruz began, the firstlarge-scale amphibious assault conducted by United States militaryforces. |
| 05 april | Britain's first civic public park, Birkenhead Park in Birkenhead, Merseyside, opened. |
| 16 april | New Zealand Wars-A minor Maori chief was accidentally shot bya junior British Army officer in the Petre settlement of New Zealand's North Island, triggering the Wanganui Campaign. |
| 18 april | Mexican–American War Winfield Scott United States troops out-flanked and drove Santa Anna's larger Mexican army from a strong defensive position in the Battle of Cerro Gordo. |
| 11 june | Afonso died at age two, leaving his father Pedro II, the last emperor of Brazil, without a male heir. |
| 11 september | Stephen Foster's 'Oh! Susanna' one of themost famous American songs ever written, premiered at a concert in anice cream shop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
| 12 october | Werner von Siemens, a German inventor, founded Siemens &Halske, which later became Siemens AG, the largest engineering companyin Europe. |
| 04 november | Scottish physician James Young Simpson discovered theanaesthetic qualities of chloroform. |
| 29 november | Oregon missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman along with about a dozen others were killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Native American tribes, sparking the Cayuse War. |
| 08 May | Robert W. to rubber tires Thompson got patented. |
| 12 May | William Clayton invented the odometer. |
| 20 July | German astronomer Theodore discovered the comet Brorsen-Metkoff. |
| 01 October | Anne Besant, a member of the Theosophical Society, who played a major role in India's freedom movement, was born in London. |
| 10 September | The United States opened the first theater in the Hawaiian Islands, located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. |
| 12 November | British physician Sir James Young Simpson used chloroform for the first time as an anesthetic. |
| 04 February | America's first telegraph company was established in Maryland. |
| 11 February | Alva Edison was born to give the world many unique things due to her sharp mind. |
| 03 March | Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, was born. |
| 10 March | The first coin was minted in Hawaii. |
| 28 April | George b Vation became the first black citizen to go to New York court in the United States. |
| 01 January | The publication of Neath's current newspaper in Harlem began. |
| 25 February | State University of Iowa received approval. |
| 01 March | The death penalty was formally abolished in the state of Michigan. |
| 15 April | Lawrence School Sanwar was established. |
| 05 May | The Architectural Association School of Architecture was established in London. |
| 01 June | The first Congress Party of the Communist League was held in London. |
| 01 July | The United States published its first postage stamps. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 01 November | Emma Albani / Actress / United Kingdom |
| 02 November | Georges Sorel / Author / France |
| 05 February | Eduard Magnus Jakobson / Missionary / Estonia |
| 08 November | Bram Stoker / Novelist / Ireland |
| 09 August | Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo / Noblewoman / Italy |
| 10 April | Joseph Pulitzer / Journalist / United States of America |
| 10 June | John Beresford / Polo Player / Ireland |
| 11 February | Thomas Alva Edison / Inventor / United States of America |
| 11 February | Thomas Edison / Business Man / United States of America |
| 11 June | Millicent Fawcett / Activist / United Kingdom |
| 18 December | Augusta Holmès / Painist / France |
| 20 October | Frits Thaulow / Painter / Norway |
| 20 August | Andrew Greenwood / Cricketer / United Kingdom |
| 22 October | Koos de la Rey / General / South Africa |
| 28 March | Gyula Farkas / Mathematician / Hungary |
| 29 April | Joachim Andersen / Composer / Denmark |
| 31 October | Galileo Ferraris / Engineer / Italy |
| 31 March | Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev / Mathematician / Russia |
| 31 March | Hermann de Pourtalès / Sailor / Switzerland |
| 31 May | William Pirrie / Politician / Ireland |