Timeline September 1848

Events in September 1848 5

• 1808 – 1848 Mohammad Shah Qajar (1808-1848) Died 5 September 1848, aged 40 Shah of Persia from 1834. His reign included a failed siege of Herat and growing British and Russian influence. His son Naser al-Din Shah succeeded him.
• 1817 – 1848 Branwell Brontë (1817-1848) Died 24 September 1848, aged 31 English painter and writer, the only brother of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë. His group portrait of his sisters is in the National Portrait Gallery. Alcohol and opium addiction ruined his health and he died at Haworth.
• 1848 Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founded Rossetti, Millais and Hunt form an artistic movement Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt founded the brotherhood in London. They rejected academic conventions in favour of detail, bright colour and serious subjects. The movement went on to shape Victorian art and design.
• 1848 Serfdom abolished in the Austrian Empire Emancipation of the peasants Emperor Ferdinand I approved a law passed by the Reichstag that abolished serfdom and feudal labour obligations across the Austrian lands on 7 September. Hans Kudlich had proposed it. It was among the few lasting results of the 1848 revolution in Austria.
• 1848 The 1848 Constitution The Modern Federal State Turned Switzerland from a loose alliance into a federal state with a bicameral parliament and the Federal Council.