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1846 (MDCCCXLVI) was
a common year starting
on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and
a common
year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1846th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
846th year of the 2nd millennium,
the 46th year of the 19th century,
and the 7th year of the 1840s decade. As of
the start of 1846, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January–March[edit] ·
January 5 – The United
States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing
the Oregon Country with
the United
Kingdom. ·
The Milan–Venice railway's
3.2 km (2.0 mi) bridge, over the Venetian Lagoon between Mestre and Venice in Italy, opens,[1][2] the
world's longest since 1151. ·
Many Mormons begin their migration west
from Nauvoo, Illinois,
to the Great Salt Lake,
led by Brigham Young. ·
First Anglo-Sikh War – Battle of Sobraon:
British forces defeat the Sikhs.[3] ·
February 14 – United States
president James K. Polk annexes the Republic of Texas,
which is regarded as an early example of American imperialism. ·
February 18 – The Galician peasant
revolt begins. ·
February 19 – The newly formed Texas state government is officially
installed in Austin. ·
February 20 –29 – Kraków Uprising – Galician slaughter: Polish nationalists stage an uprising
in the Free City of Kraków;
it is suppressed by forces of the Austrian Empire, supported by peasants. ·
February 26 – The Liberty Bell is cracked, while being
rung for George Washington's birthday. ·
March 9 – The First Anglo-Sikh War ends,
with the signing of the Treaty of Lahore.[4] Kashmir is ceded to
the British East
India Company, and the Koh-i-Noor diamond is surrendered
to Queen Victoria. ·
March 10 – Prince Osahito, fourth son
of deceased Emperor Ninkō of
Japan, becomes Emperor Kōmei. April–June[edit] ·
April 25 – Mexican–American War:
Open conflict begins, over the disputed border of Texas. ·
May –
The Associated Press is
founded in New York. ·
May 8 – Mexican–American War – Battle of Palo Alto: Zachary Taylor defeats a Mexican force
north of the Rio Grandeat Palo Alto, Texas in the first major
battle of the war. ·
May 11 – The University at
Buffalo is founded by future United States Vice President and
President, Millard Fillmore.[5] ·
May 13 – Mexican–American War:
The United States declares war on Mexico. ·
May 15 – Under the leadership of Prime
Minister Robert Peel,
the House
of Commons of the United Kingdom votes to repeal the Corn Laws by passing an Importation
Bill, replacing the old colonial mercantile trade system
with free trade.[6] On June 25 the Duke of Wellington persuades
the House of Lords to
pass the Act, which will take full effect from February 1849. ·
May 16 – The Revolution
of Maria da Fonte begins in Portugal (it is crushed by
royalist troops on February 22, 1847). ·
May 25 – The Royal
Geographical Society awards Paweł
Edmund Strzelecki a Gold Medal "for exploration in the
south eastern portion of Australia".[citation needed] ·
June 10 – Mexican–American War:
The California Republic declares
independence from Mexico. ·
June 14 – Bear Flag Revolt: American settlers in Sonoma, California,
start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic. ·
June 15 ·
The Oregon Treaty establishes the 49th parallel as
the border between the United States and Canada, from the Rocky Mountains to the Strait of Juan de
Fuca. ·
Launceston
Church Grammar School opens for the first time in Tasmania. ·
June 16 – Pope Pius IX succeeds Pope Gregory XVI as the 255th pope.
He will reign for 31½ years (the longest definitely confirmed). ·
June 28 – The saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax.[7] July–September[edit] ·
July 7 – Mexican–American War – Battle of Monterey:
Acting on instructions from Washington, D.C., CommodoreJohn Drake Sloat orders his troops to
occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena,
thus beginning the United States annexation of California. ·
August 22 – The Second
Federal Republic of Mexico is established. ·
September – The Second Carlist War (or
the War of the Matiners or Madrugadores) begins in Spain. ·
September 10 – Elias Howe is awarded the first United
States patent for a sewing machine, using a lockstitch design.[8] ·
September 12 – Elizabeth Barrett elopes
with Robert Browning. ·
September 14 – Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre
about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court. ·
September 19 – The Virgin Mary is
said to have appeared to two children in La Salette,
France. ·
September 23 – Discovery of Neptune:
The planet is observed for the first time by German astronomers Johann Gottfried
Galle and Heinrich Louis
d'Arrest, as predicted by British astronomer John Couch Adams and French
astronomer Urbain Le Verrier. October–December[edit] ·
October 1 – Christ College,
Tasmania, opens with the hope that it will develop along the lines
of an Oxbridge college, and provide the basis
for university education in Tasmania. By the 21st century it will be the
oldest tertiary institution in Australia. ·
October 16 – At Massachusetts
General Hospital, Dr. William T.G. Morton,
a dentist, gives the first successful public demonstration of ether anesthesia. [9] ·
November 4 – The Donner Party, a wagon train of 87 settlers
traveling to California, is stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains
by the first of several snowstorms. By the time a relief party reaches the
starving settlers three months later, only 48 survivors are left, many of
whom have survived by cannibalism. [10] ·
Pope Pius IX issues the encyclical Qui pluribus, in response to the growing
trend of agnosticism among intellectuals in Europe. [11] ·
December 22 – The Guildsystem in Sweden is abolished by
the Fabriks och
Handtwerksordning and Handelsordningen, and trade and
handicrafts permits are granted to every male and female applicant of legal
majority.[12] ·
December 24 – Great
Britain acquires Labuan from
the Sultanate of Brunei. ·
December 28 – Iowa is
admitted as the 29th U.S. state. Date unknown[edit] ·
The
portion of the District of Columbia,
that was ceded by Virginia in 1790,
is re-ceded
to Virginia. ·
Electric
Telegraph Company founded in Britain. ·
Abraham Pineo Gesner develops
a process to refine a liquid fuel, which he calls kerosene, from coal, bitumen or oil shale. ·
Fort
Wayne Female College is founded; it will later be renamed Taylor University. ·
A cholera epidemic breaks out in
England. ·
The Great Famine continues
in Ireland. Births[edit] January–June[edit] ·
Mariam Baouardy, Syrian Melkite
Greek Catholic nun, canonized (d. 1878) ·
Rudolf Christoph
Eucken, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926) ·
January 27 – Meriwether
Lewis Clark Jr., American founder of the Kentucky Derby (d. 1899) ·
February 2 – Francis Marion Smith,
American borax magnate (d. 1931) ·
February 9 – Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer
(d. 1929) ·
February 18 – Wilson Barrett, English actor (d. 1904) ·
February 21 – James Timberlake, American lawman (d. 1891) ·
February 26 – William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody,
American frontiersman, later showman (d. 1917) ·
March 4 – Franklin J. Drake,
American admiral (d. 1929) ·
March 6 – Henry Radcliffe
Crocker, English dermatologist (d. 1909) ·
March 9 – Ōdera Yasuzumi,
Japanese general (d. 1895) ·
March 24 – Karl von Bülow,
German field marshal (d. 1921) ·
April 4 – Comte de Lautréamont,
French writer (d. 1870) ·
May 3 – Sir Edmund
Elton, 8th Baronet, English inventor, studio potter (d. 1920) ·
May 5 – Henryk Sienkiewicz,
Polish author, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1916) ·
May 20 – Alexander von Kluck,
German general (d. 1934) ·
May 22 – Rita Cetina
Gutiérrez, American teacher, poet and activist (d. 1908) ·
May 25 – Princess
Helena of the United Kingdom (d. 1923) ·
May 29 – Winfield Scott
Edgerly, United States Brigadier General (d. 1927) ·
June 11 – William Louis
Marshall, American general, engineer (d. 1920) ·
June 13 – Rose Cleveland, de facto First
Lady of the United States (d. 1918) ·
June 27 – Charles Stewart
Parnell, Irish political leader (d. 1891) July–December[edit] Isabel,
Princess Imperial of Brazil ·
July 17 – Tokugawa Iemochi, 14th shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of
Japan (d. 1866) ·
July 26 – Texas Jack Omohundro,
American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (d. 1880) ·
July 29 – Isabel,
Princess Imperial of Brazil (d. 1921) ·
August 16 – Oskar Victorovich
Stark, Russian admiral and explorer (d. 1928) ·
August 18 – Robley Dunglison
Evans, American admiral (d. 1912) ·
August 23 – Alexander Milne
Calder, American sculptor (d. 1923) ·
September 7 – John Porter Merrell,
American admiral (d. 1916) ·
September 16 – Anna Kingsford, British spiritual writer,
doctor, feminist and pioneering vegetarian (d. 1888) ·
September 21 – Mihály Kolossa,
Hungarian Slovene writer (d. 1906) ·
Watson Heston, American cartoonist (d. 1905) ·
Wladimir Köppen,
Russian-German geographer, climatologist (d. 1940) ·
October 6 – George Westinghouse,
American entrepreneur, engineer (d. 1914) ·
October 26 – Lewis Boss, American astronomer (d. 1912) ·
November 10 – Martin Wegelius, Finnish composer,
musicologist (d. 1906) ·
November 13 – Herbert Standing, English actor (d. 1923) ·
November 20 – Konstantinos
Koumoundouros, Greek army officer, politician (d. 1924) ·
November 25 – Carrie Nation, American temperance advocate
(d. 1911) ·
December 2 – Pierre
Waldeck-Rousseau, Prime Minister of France (d. 1904) ·
December 17 – Max von Hausen, German general (d. 1922) ·
December 21 – Julia Lermontova, Russian chemist (d. 1919) Date unknown[edit] ·
Jeanne Schmahl, British-born French feminist
(d. 1915) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit] ·
February 21 – Emperor Ninkō of Japan (b. 1800) ·
February 27 – María Trinidad
Sánchez, heroine of the Dominican War of Independence (b. 1794) ·
March 17 – Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and
astronomer (b. 1784) ·
May 11 – Jane Irwin Harrison, de
facto First
Lady of the United States (b. 1804) ·
May 12 – Sir Robert Otway, British admiral (b. 1770) ·
May 23 – Franciszek
Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, Polish politician (b. 1778) ·
June 1 – Pope Gregory XVI (b. 1765) ·
June 8 – Rodolphe Töpffer,
Swiss author, painter, and caricature artist (b. 1799) ·
June 13 – Jean-Baptiste
Benoît Eyriès, French geographer, author and translator (b. 1767) July–December[edit] ·
Samuel Humphreys, American naval architect
(b. 1778) ·
Sylvain Charles
Valée, Marshal of France (b. 1773) ·
September 14 – Jacques Dupré, Louisiana State
Representative, State Senator, and Governor (b. 1773) ·
September 23 – John Ainsworth
Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (b. 1818) ·
September 26 – Thomas Clarkson, English abolitionist
(b. 1760) ·
Alexander
Chavchavadze, Georgian Romantic poet, military figure (b. 1786) ·
Karol Marcinkowski,
Polish physician, social activist (b. 1800) ·
November 12 – William
Findlay, American politician (b. 1768) ·
December 18 – Emilie Högquist,
Swedish dramatic star (b. 1812) ·
December 29 – Mateli
Magdalena Kuivalatar, Finnish-Carelian folksinger (b. 1777) Date unknown[edit] ·
Maria Medina Coeli,
Italian physician (b. 1764) References[edit] 1.
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