1849

1849 (MDCCCXLIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1849th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 849th year of the 2nd millennium, the 49th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1840s decade. As of the start of 1849, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1849 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1849 MDCCCXLIX
Ab urbe condita	2602
Armenian calendar	1298 ԹՎ ՌՄՂԸ
Assyrian calendar	6599
Bahá'í calendar	5–6
Balinese saka calendar	1770–1771
Bengali calendar	1256
Berber calendar	2799
British Regnal year	12 Vict. 1 – 13 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2393
Burmese calendar	1211
Byzantine calendar	7357–7358
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4545 or 4485     — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 4546 or 4486
Coptic calendar	1565–1566
Discordian calendar	3015
Ethiopian calendar	1841–1842
Hebrew calendar	5609–5610
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1905–1906
- Shaka Samvat	1770–1771
- Kali Yuga	4949–4950
Holocene calendar	11849
Igbo calendar	849–850
Iranian calendar	1227–1228
Islamic calendar	1265–1266
Japanese calendar	Kaei 2 (嘉永２年)
Javanese calendar	1777–1778
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4182
Minguo calendar	63 before ROC 民前63年
Nanakshahi calendar	381
Thai solar calendar	2391–2392
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Monkey) 1975 or 1594 or 822     — to — ས་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Earth-Bird) 1976 or 1595 or 823

Events

• February 8 – Start of the new Roman Republic
• April 12 – Ludwig von Welden becomes commander of Austrian forces in Hungary.
• May – The Second Carlist War ends in Spain.

Deaths

June 15 - James K. Polk, 53, eleventh President of the United States, cholera (b. 1795)

Births

for more information, see Category:1849 births.

Deaths

for more information, see Category:1849 deaths.

• October 7 – Edgar Allan Poe