in 1848, Fryderyk Chopin performed his last public concert – at the London Guildhall. A year later, he died in France.

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Nebulae of the winter skies , captured over last 6 yrs, NGC2244, IC1848, IC410 and NGC2264
All emission type star forming Nebulae

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July 1848, Queen Victoria visits the
"Sir William Hooker ... took us over the ... Museum which is extremely well arranged, though still quite in its infancy, but the plants are there, & samples of everything that can be extracted or manufactured from them."

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Born 1848, William Gilbert "W. G." Grace, English cricketer who was important in the development of the sport and is widely considered one of its greatest-ever players (as well sporting one of the best beards). Illustration - Vanity Fair 'Spy', 1877

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Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov (1791, Moscow – 15 August 1848, Merchik, Kharkov Governorate) was a Russian aquarelle portraitist who painted many of the most distinguished figures of the Pushkin era.He was the father of the painters Pyotr Sokolov, Pavel Sokolov and Alexander Sokolov.

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Vasily Surikov (24 January 1848, Krasnoyarsk - 19 March 1916) The Bronze Horseman

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Alexandre Cabanel – 1848, Albayde. Location: Musée Fabre (France)

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