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January 30 – Yerba Buena, California, is renamed San Francisco. February 5 – A rescue effort, called the First Relief, leaves Johnson's Ranch to save the ill-fated Donner Party (California-bound migrants who became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada earlier this winter; some have resorted to survival by cannibalism).
- 1847 in the United States
March 1 – The state of Michigan formally abolishes the death...
- 1847 in the United Kingdom
22 July – Town Police Clauses Act 1847 provides powers to...
- Panic
The Panic of 1847 was a major British commercial and banking...
- 1847 in the United States
Lasting from March 9–29, 1847, it began with an amphibious assault conducted by United States military forces, and ended with the surrender and occupation of the city. U.S. forces then marched inland to Mexico City.
- March 9–29, 1847
- American victory
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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.
