Events 1846

1 events

1.1 january–march
1.2 april–june
1.3 july–september
1.4 october–december
1.5 date unknown

events
january–march

january 5 – united states house of representatives votes stop sharing oregon country united kingdom.

the milan–venice railway s 3.2 km (2.0 mi) bridge, on venetian lagoon between mestre , venice in italy, opens, world s longest since 1151.
many mormons begin migration west nauvoo, illinois, great salt lake, led brigham young.
first anglo-sikh war – battle of sobraon: british forces defeat sikhs.


february 14 – united states president james k. polk annexes republic of texas, regarded example of american imperialism.
february 18 – galician peasant revolt begins.
february 19 – newly formed texas state government officially installed in austin.
february 20 –29 – kraków uprising – galician slaughter: polish nationalists stage uprising in free city of kraków; suppressed forces of austrian empire, supported peasants.
february 26 – liberty bell cracked, while being rung george washington s birthday.
march 9 – first anglo-sikh war ends, signing of treaty of lahore. kashmir ceded british east india company, , koh-i-noor diamond surrendered queen victoria.
march 10 – prince osahito, fourth son of deceased emperor ninkō of japan, becomes emperor kōmei.

april–june

april 25 – mexican–american war: open conflict begins, on disputed border of texas.
may – associated press founded in new york.
may 8 – mexican–american war – battle of palo alto: zachary taylor defeats mexican force north of rio grande @ palo alto, texas in first major battle of war.
may 11 – university @ buffalo founded future united states vice president , president, millard fillmore.
may 13 – mexican–american war: united states declares war on mexico.
may 15 – under leadership of prime minister robert peel, house of commons of united kingdom votes repeal corn laws passing importation bill, replacing old colonial mercantile trade system free trade. on june 25 duke of wellington persuades house of lords pass act, take full effect february 1849.
may 16 – revolution of maria da fonte begins in portugal (it crushed royalist troops on february 22, 1847).
may 25 – royal geographical society awards paweł edmund strzelecki gold medal exploration in south eastern portion of australia .
june 10 – mexican–american war: california republic declares independence mexico.
june 14 – bear flag revolt: american settlers in sonoma, california, start rebellion against mexico , proclaim california republic.
june 15

the oregon treaty establishes 49th parallel border between united states , canada, rocky mountains strait of juan de fuca.
launceston church grammar school opens first time in tasmania.


june 16 – pope pius ix succeeds pope gregory xvi 255th pope. reign 31½ years (the longest confirmed).
june 28 – saxophone patented adolphe sax.

july–september

july 7 – mexican-american war – battle of monterey: acting on instructions washington, d.c., commodore john drake sloat orders troops occupy monterey , yerba buena, beginning united states annexation of california.
august 22 – second federal republic of mexico established.
september – second carlist war (or war of matiners or madrugadores) begins in spain.
september 10 – elias howe awarded first united states patent sewing machine, using lockstitch design.
september 12 – elizabeth barrett elopes robert browning.
september 14 – jang bahadur , brothers massacre 40 members of nepalese palace court.
september 19 – virgin mary said have appeared 2 children in la salette, france.
september 23 – discovery of neptune: planet observed first time german astronomers johann gottfried galle , heinrich louis d arrest, predicted british astronomer john couch adams , french astronomer urbain le verrier.

october–december

october 1 – christ college, tasmania, opens hope develop along lines of oxbridge college, , provide basis university education in tasmania. 21st century oldest tertiary institution in australia.
october 16 – @ massachusetts general hospital, dr. william t.g. morton, dentist, gives first successful public demonstration of ether anesthesia.
november 4 – donner party, wagon train of 87 settlers traveling california, stranded in sierra nevada mountains first of several snowstorms. time relief party reaches starving settlers 3 months later, 48 survivors left, many of whom have survived cannibalism.
pope pius ix issues encyclical qui pluribus, in response growing trend of agnosticism among intellectuals in europe.
december 22 – guildsystem in sweden abolished fabriks och handtwerksordning , handelsordningen, , trade , handicrafts permits granted every male , female applicant of legal majority.
december 24 – great britain acquires labuan sultanate of brunei.
december 28 – iowa admitted 29th u.s. state.

date unknown

the portion of district of columbia, ceded virginia in 1790, re-ceded virginia.
electric telegraph company founded in britain.
abraham pineo gesner develops process refine liquid fuel, calls kerosene, coal, bitumen or oil shale.
fort wayne female college founded; later renamed taylor university.
a cholera epidemic breaks out in england.
the great famine continues in ireland.




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