What significance has the year 1849 got?

Answer 1

Gold Rush in California

Answer 2

All kinds of stuff happened in 1849, not sure what context you are looking for but this link will give you a nice summary:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1849

Answer 3

The California Gold Rush (1848-1855) was the "first world-class gold rush." Coming just as the world was moving from sail to steam, and from stagecoach to rail, the Gold Rush transformed California from a distant and quiet province to a focus of the world’s imagination. The Gold Rush laid the foundation of the “California Dream” as a place to begin again, a place where untold wealth was just waiting to be found.

The Gold Rush started in January 1848, when John Marshall found shiny pieces of metal in the tailrace of a sawmill he was building; tests showed the metal was gold. Word soon leaked out and spread like wildfire. Within a few years, hundreds of thousands of prospectors and merchants came to California from around the globe, drawn by “gold fever” and the lure of easy wealth.

Gold had concentrated in the mountains of California as the result of hundreds of millions of years of geologic action. Early prospectors, called "Forty-Niners," at first retrieved the gold from streams and riverbeds using simple techniques, and later developed more sophisticated methods of gold recovery which were adopted around the world.

The Gold Rush brought wide-spread change to California. In just a few years, some 300,000 people (mostly young men) came to California from the rest of the United States and from around the globe. Stories of the fabulous "Golden State" and shiploads of California gold spread to every corner of the world – setting the stage for an on-going world-wide fascination with California which has lasted more than 150 years.

Answer 4

Nothing important in U.S. history happened in 1849.

Answer 5

Irish Potato Famine ended

Answer 6

nothing much, there was the gold rush
US treaty with the Hawaiian islands
Zachary Taylor was elected as The 12th president
that in the states, but here in England.. every year is of significance

Answer 7

January 1
France issues Ceres, France's first postage stamp.
In Milan, anti-Austrian activists organize a smoking boycott in protest of the Austrian monopoly on tobacco. Protests erupts into brief riots.
January 12 - Uprising against Austrian troops in Palermo, Sicily
January 21 - General elections in the Papal States.
January 23 - Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her MD by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, thus becoming the United States' first woman doctor.
January 31 - Corn Laws abolished in the United Kingdom.
February 8 - New Roman Republic established.
February 14 - In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
February 28 - Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay. The California left New York Harbor on October 6, 1848, rounded Cape Horn at the tip of South America, and arrived at San Francisco, California after the 4 month 21 day journey.
March 3
Minnesota becomes a United States territory.
The United States Department of the Interior is established.
The U.S. Congress passes the Gold Coinage Act allowing the minting of gold coins.
March 4 - Zachary Taylor refuses to be sworn in office on a Sabbath (Sunday). Consequently the office of President of the United States of America is vacant for a single day. Urban legend instead holds that David Rice Atchison, President pro tempore of the United States Senate was President de jure for a single day.
March 5 - Zachary Taylor becomes the 12th President of the United States of America.
March 28 - 4 Christians are ordered burnt alive in Antananarivo Madagascar by Queen Ranavalona I and 14 others are executed.
March 29 - The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab
April 1 - After ten days, the insurrection in Brescia is ended by Austrian troops.
April 2 - The Revolutions of 1848 in the German states end and fail.
April 14 – Hungary declares independence from Austria
April 21 - Irish Potato Famine: 96 inmates of the overcrowded Ballinrobe Union Workhouse die over the course of the preceding week from illness and other famine-related conditions, a record high.
April 25 - The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
April 27 - Giuseppe Garibaldi enters in Rome to defend it from the French troops of General Oudinot.
May 3 - The May Uprising in Dresden begins - the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
May 3 - Break in the Mississippi River levee at Sauvé's Crevasse which will flood much of New Orleans, Louisiana
May 15 - Troops of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily
May 17 - The St. Louis Fire started when a steamboat caught fire and nearly burned down the entire city.
June 5 - Denmark becomes constitutional monarchy
June 6 - The city of Fort Worth, Texas is founded, at that time known as "Camp Worth". Starting off humbly, the city would one day be a major cattle-herding center, and a major center of commerce in the South.
July 3 - French troops occupy Rome. Roman Republic surrenders.
August 8 – Austria crushes the Hungarian rebellion with Russian aid.
August 24 - Venice surrenders to Austrian troops after a 4-month siege
September 1 - The first segment of the Pennsylvania Railroad, from Lewiston, Pennsylvania to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, opens for service.
October 6 - The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian War of Independence.
November - Austin College received charter in Huntsville
November 16 - A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group, but his execution is canceled at the last minute

Answer 8

(i like december 28th)

http://www.brainyhistory.com/years/1849.html

Answer 9

irish potato famine

Answer 10

That's when I was born