• The Irish Potato Famine reaches its zenith. Although the 1847 crop is unaffected by the blight for the first time in two years, the lack of seed potatos reduces the size of the harvest even further as the famine reaches its widest extent.
• Brigham Young and 148 Mormon pioneers arrive in the Salt Lake Valley in what is now Utah after a 17-month oddessy and establish Salt Lake City.
• The American Medical Association (AMA) is founded.

These people were born in 1847:

• American inventor Thomas Edison.
• Hungarian-born American newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer.
• Future president of Germany Paul von Hindenburg.

These people died in 1847:

• German composer Fanny Mendelssohn.
• American folk hero Johnny Appleseed.
• English hymn writer Henry Francis Lyte
• British politician Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby

1846 - 1847 - 1848

19th century

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