1849 (MDCCCXLIX) was a common yearstarting on Monday of the Gregorian calendarand 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 2ndmillennium, the 49th year of the 19thcentury, 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.

• 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)

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• October 7 – Edgar Allan Poe