List of state leaders in 1848

This is a list of heads of state, government leaders, and other rulers in the year 1848.

Africa

• Ashanti Confederacy – Kwaku Dua I Panyin, Asantehene (1834–1867)
• Kingdom of Buganda – Suna II (1836–1856)
• Bunyoro –
  1. Nyabongo II, Omukama of Bunyoro (1835–1848)
  2. Olimi V, Omukama of Bunyoro (1848–1852)
• Kingdom of Burundi – Ntare IV Rugamba (1796–1852)
• Kingdom of Dahomey – Ghezo (1818–1856)
• Geledi Sultanate –
  1. Yusuf Mahamud Ibrahim (1798–1848)
  2. Ahmed Yusuf (1848–1878)
• Liberia – Joseph Jenkins Roberts, President of Liberia (1848–1856)
• Kingdom of Rwanda – Mutara II Rwogera (1830–1853)
• Sokoto Caliphate
  • Caliph – Ali bin Bello I (1842–1859)
  • Grand Vizier - Abd al-Qadir (1842–1859)
• Warsangali Sultanate – Gerad Aul (1830–1870)
• Zulu – Mpande kaSenzangakhona, King of the Zulu (1840–1872)

Asia

• Aceh – Sulaiman Syah (1838–1857)
• Durrani Empire – Dost Mohammad Khan (1843–1863)
• Sultanate of Brunei – Omar Ali Saifuddin II (1829–1852)
• China (Qing dynasty) - Daoguang Emperor (1821–1850)
• Empire of Japan
  • Monarch – Kōmei (1846–1867)
  • Tokugawa shogunate – Tokugawa Ieyoshi (1837–1853)
  • Ryukyu Kingdom - Shō Tai (1848-11 March 1879)
• Sultanate of Johor – Sultan Ali of Johor (1835–1855)
• Joseon (Korea) – Heonjong (1834–1849)
• Khanate of Khiva – Abu al-Ghazi Muhammad Amin Bahadur (1846–1855)
• Sikh Empire – Dalip Singh Sukerchakia (1843–1849)
• Đại Nam (Nguyễn dynasty) - Tự Đức, Emperor (1847–1883)

Europe

• Principality of Abkhazia – Mikhail (1822–1864)
• Belgium
  • Monarch – Léopold I, King of the Belgians (1831–1865)
  • Cabinet Chief - Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (1832–1834, 1847–1852, 1857–1868)
• Kingdom of Denmark
  • Monarch -
    1. Christian VIII (1839–1848)
    2. Frederick VII (1848–1863)
  • Minister of State -
    1. Poul Christian Stemann (1842–1848)
    2. Adam Wilhelm Moltke (1848–1852)
• French Second Republic –
  • July Monarchy -
    • Monarch – Louis Philippe I (1830–1848)
    • Prime Minister -
      1. François Guizot (1847–1848)
      2. Louis-Mathieu Molé (1848)
      3. Adolphe Thiers (1848)
  • Provisional Government of the Second Republic (February–December 1848) -
    1. Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic (1848)
    2. François Arago, Chairman of the Executive Power Commission (1848)
    3. Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Chief of the Executive Power (1848)
  • Second Republic -
    • President - Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (1848–1852)
    • Prime Minister - Odilon Barrot (1848–1849)
• German Confederation
  • Austrian Empire –
    • Monarch
    1. Ferdinand I (1835–1848)
    2. Franz Joseph I (1848–1916)
    • Chancellor - Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Chancellor of Austria (1821–1848)
  • Luxembourg
    • Monarch – William II of the Netherlands (1840–1849)
    • Prime Minister -
      1. Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine, Governor of Luxembourg (1841–1848) (1848)
      2. Jean-Jacques Madelaine Willmar (1848–1853)
  • Kingdom of Prussia –
    • Monarch – Friedrich Wilhelm IV (1840–1861)
    • Chief Minister/Minister-President -
      1. Ludwig Gustav von Thile (1841–1848)
      2. Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg (1848)
      3. Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen (1848)
      4. Rudolf von Auerswald (1848)
      5. Ernst von Pfuel (1848)
      6. Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg (1848–1850)
  • Kingdom of Bavaria
    1. Ludwig I (1825–1848)
    2. Maximilian II (1848–1864)
  • Kingdom of Saxony – Frederick Augustus (1836–1854)
  • Kingdom of Hanover – Ernest Augustus (1837–1851)
  • Kingdom of Württemberg – William (1816–1864)
• Kingdom of Greece –
  • Monarch – Otto (1832–1862)
  • Prime Minister -
    1. Kitsos Tzavelas (1847–1848)
    2. Georgios Kountouriotis (1848)
    3. Konstantinos Kanaris (1848–1849)
• Kingdom of Hungary –
  • Monarch -
    1. Ferdinand V (1835–1848)
    2. Franz Joseph I of Austria (1848–1916)
  • Prime Minister -
    1. Count Lajos Batthyány 17 March – 2 October 1848
    2. Ádám Récsey 3 October – 26 November 1848
    3. Lajos Kossuth 26 November 1848 – 11 August 1849
• Menton and Roquebrune – Charles Trenca, President of the Free Cities of Menton and Roquebrune (1848–1853)
• Monaco – Florestan I, Prince of Monaco (1841–1856)
• Kingdom of the Netherlands –
  • Monarch – William II (1840–1849)
  • Chairman of the Dutch Council of Ministers -
    1. Gerrit Schimmelpenninck (1848)
    2. Jacob de Kempenaer (1848–1849)
• Ottoman (Turkish) Empire
  • Sultan - Abdülmecid I (1839–1861)
  • Grand Vizier -
    1. Mustafa Reşid Pasha (1846–1848)
    2. Ibrahim Sarim Pasha (1848)
    3. Mustafa Reşid Pasha (1848–1852)
• Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves
  • Monarch – Maria II (1826–1828, 1834–1853)
  • President of the Council of Ministers - Duke of Saldanha (1847–1849)
• Russian Empire – Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia (1825–1855)
• Kingdom of Spain – Isabella II (1833–1868)
• Kingdom of Sweden – United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway - Oscar I (1844–1859)
• Grand Duchy of Tuscany – Leopold II (1824–1859)
• Kingdom of the Two Sicilies – Ferdinand II (1830–1859)
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
  • Monarch – Victoria (1837–1901)
  • Prime Minister - Lord John Russell (1846–1852)

Middle East and North Africa

• Egypt Eyalet –
  1. Muhammad Ali Pasha, Governor of Egypt (1805–1848)
  2. Ibrahim Pasha, Governor of Egypt (1848)
  3. Muhammad Ali Pasha, Governor of Egypt (1805–1849)
• Kuwait – Sheikh Jabir ibn Abdullah Al Sabah (1814–1859)
• Sultanate of Morocco – Abd al-Rahman (1822–1859)
• Sultanate of Oman – Sa'id II ibn Sultan (1804–1856)
• Persia (Qajar dynasty) –
  1. Mohammad Shah Qajar (1834–1848)
  2. Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (1848–1896)

North America

• Costa Rica – José María Castro Madriz, President of Costa Rica (1847–1849)
• Mexico:
  1. Manuel de la Peña y Peña, President of Mexico (1847–1848)
  2. José Joaquín de Herrera, President of Mexico (1848–1851)
• United States: James K. Polk, President of the United States (1845–1849)

Oceania

• Kingdom of Hawaii – Kamehameha III (1823–1854)
• Tonga – Tāufaʻāhau, Tu'i Kanokupolu (1845–1893)

South America

• Argentine Confederation – Juan Manuel de Rosas, Governor of Buenos Aires Province in charge of the Foreign Relations of the Argentine Confederation (1835–1851)
• Empire of Brazil –
  • Monarch – Pedro II (1831–1889)
  • Prime Minister -
    1. Manuel Alves Branco, 2nd Viscount of Caravelas (1847–1848)
    2. José Carlos Pereira de Almeida Torres, Viscount of Macaé (1848)
    3. Francisco de Paula Sousa e Melo (1848)
    4. Pedro de Araújo Lima, Marquis of Olinda (1848–1849)
• Chile – Manuel Bulnes, President of Chile (1841–1851)
• Ecuador – Vicente Ramón Roca, President of Ecuador (1845–1849)
• New Granada – Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera, President of New Granada (1844–1849)
• Paraguay – Carlos Antonio López, Perpetual Supreme Dictator (1844–1862)
• Peru – Ramón Castilla, President of Peru (1845–1851 and 1855–1862)
• Uruguay – as a consequence of the Guerra Grande, two governments in parallel:
  • Gobierno de la Defensa (in Montevideo): Joaquín Suárez (1843–1852)
  • Gobierno del Cerrito (ruling the rest of the country): Manuel Oribe (1843–1851)