This article is about the year 1846.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
Decades: | 1810s 1820s 1830s – 1840s – 1850s 1860s 1870s |
Years: | 1843 1844 1845 – 1846 – 1847 1848 1849 |
1846 in topic: |
Humanities |
Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature – Music |
By country |
Australia – Canada – France – Germany – Mexico – Philippines – South Africa – US – UK |
Other topics |
Rail Transport – Science – Sports |
Lists of leaders |
Colonial Governors – State leaders |
Birth and death categories |
Births – Deaths |
Establishments and disestablishments categories |
Establishments – Disestablishments |
Works category |
Works |
Gregorian calendar | 1846 MDCCCXLVI |
Ab urbe condita | 2599 |
Armenian calendar | 1295 ԹՎ ՌՄՂԵ |
Assyrian calendar | 6596 |
Bahá'í calendar | 2–3 |
Bengali calendar | 1253 |
Berber calendar | 2796 |
British Regnal year | 9 Vict. 1 – 10 Vict. 1 |
Buddhist calendar | 2390 |
Burmese calendar | 1208 |
Byzantine calendar | 7354–7355 |
Chinese calendar | 乙巳年十二月初四日 (4482/4542-12-4) — to —
丙午年十一月十四日(4483/4543-11-14) |
Coptic calendar | 1562–1563 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1838–1839 |
Hebrew calendar | 5606–5607 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1902–1903 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1768–1769 |
- Kali Yuga | 4947–4948 |
Holocene calendar | 11846 |
Iranian calendar | 1224–1225 |
Islamic calendar | 1262–1263 |
Japanese calendar | Kōka 3 (弘化3年) |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 12 days |
Korean calendar | 4179 |
Minguo calendar | 66 before ROC 民前66年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2389 |
Year 1846 (MDCCCXLVI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
- January 5 – The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
- January 13 – Opening of the Milan–Venice railway's 3.2 km (2.0 mi) bridge over the Venetian Lagoon between Mestre and Venice in Italy,[1][2] the world's longest since 1151.
- February 10
- Many Mormons begin their migration west from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Great Salt Lake, led by Brigham Young.
- First Anglo-Sikh War: British victory at the Battle of Sobraon.[3]
- February 18 – Beginning of the Galician peasant revolt.
- February 19 – The newly formed Texas state government is officially installed in Austin.
- February 26 – The Liberty Bell is cracked while being rung for George Washington's birthday.
- March 9 – The conclusion of the First Anglo-Sikh War 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 Ninko of Japan, becomes Emperor Kōmei.
April–June
- April 25 – Mexican-American War: Open conflict begins over border disputes of Texas' boundaries.
- May 8 – Mexican-American War – Battle of Palo Alto: Zachary Taylor defeats a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande at Palo Alto, Texas in the first major battle of the war.
- May 13 – Mexican-American War: The United States declares war on Mexico.
- May 16
- Under the leadership of British Prime Minister Robert Peel, the British Parliament repeals the Corn Laws, replacing the old Colonial mercantile trade system with Free Trade.[5]
- Revolutionary insurrection in Portugal (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.[6]
July–September
- July 7 – Acting on instructions from Washington, DC, Commodore John 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.[7]
- 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 the British astronomer John Couch Adams and the French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier.
October–December
- October 1 – Christ College, Tasmania, opens with the hope that it would 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.
- December 28 – Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.
Date unknown
- 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.
- Richard March Hoe perfects a rotary printing press in the United States, making rapid printing of newspapers possible.[8]
- Fort Wayne Female College is founded; it will later be renamed Taylor University.
- Cholera epidemic in England.
- Great Famine continues in Ireland.
Births
January–June
- January 5 – Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926)
- January 27 – M. Lewis Clark American founder of 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 26 – William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American frontiersman (d. 1917)
- March 6 – Henry Radcliffe Crocker, British dermatologist (d. 1909)
- April 4 – Comte de Lautreamont, French writer (d. 1870)
- May 3 – Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet, English inventor and studio potter (d. 1920)
- May 5 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
- May 25 – Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (d. 1923)
- June 11 – William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (d. 1920)
- June 27 – Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish political leader (d. 1891)
July–December
- July 17 – Tokugawa Iemochi, the 14th shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japanese (d. 1866)
- July 26 – Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (d. 1880)
- August 18 – Robley Dunglison Evans, American admiral (d. 1912)
- August 23 – Alexander Milne Calder, American sculptor (d. 1923)
- September 16 – Anna Kingsford, British spiritual writer, doctor, feminist and pioneering vegetarian.
- September 21 – Mihály Kolossa, Hungarian Slovene writer (d. 1906)
- November 25 – Carrie Nation, American temperance advocate (d. 1911)
Deaths
January–June
- February 21 – Emperor Ninko of Japan (b. 1800)
- March 17 – Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1784)
- 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)
July–December
- August 16
- Samuel Humphreys, American naval architect (b. 1778)
- Sylvain Charles Valée, Marshal of France (b. 1773)
- September 14 – Jacques Dupre, 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)
- November 6
- Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and social activist (b. 1800)
- Alexander Chavchavadze, Georgian Romantic poet and military figure (b. 1786)
- December 18 – Emilie Högquist, Swedish dramatic star (d. 1812)
References
- ^ "Venice Railroad Bridge". Structurae. http://en.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?id=s0007311. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
- ^ Kalla-Bishop, P. M. (1971). Italian Railways. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 20. ISBN 0715351680.
- ^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 268–269. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1840–1860". Archived from the original on 17 August 2007. http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1840-1860. Retrieved 2007-09-13.
- ^ Hart, Hugh (2010-06-28). "June 28, 1846: Parisian Inventor Patents Saxophone". Wired. http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/06/0628saxophone-patent. Retrieved 2011-12-07.
- ^ U.S. Patent 4,750
- ^ Meggs, Philip B. (1998). A History of Graphic Design (3rd ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. p. 147. ISBN 978-0471291985.