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1846 (MDCCCXLVI ) was acommon year starting on Thursday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Tuesday of theJulian calendar , the 1846th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 46th year of the19th century , and the 7th year of the1840s 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.
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January 5 – TheUnited States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing theOregon Country with theUnited Kingdom .January 13 – TheMilan–Venice railway 's 3.2 km (2.0 mi) bridge, over theVenetian Lagoon betweenMestre andVenice in Italy, opens,[ 1] 1151 .January 23 –Ahmad I ibn Mustafa , Bey of Tunis, declares the legal abolition ofslavery in Tunisia .[ 2] February 4 – Led byBrigham Young , manyMormons in the U.S. begin their migration west fromNauvoo, Illinois , to theGreat Salt Lake in what becomesUtah .February 10 –First Anglo-Sikh war :Battle of Sobraon – British forces in India defeat the Sikhs.[ 3] February 18 – TheGalician Peasant Uprising of 1846 begins in Austria.February 19 –Texas annexation : United States presidentJames K. Polk 's annexation of theRepublic of Texas is finalized by Texas presidentAnson Jones in a formal ceremony of transfer of sovereignty. The newly formedTexas state government is officially installed inAustin .February 20 –March 3 –Kraków uprising :Polish nationalists stage an uprising in theFree City of Kraków ; it is suppressed by forces of theAustrian Empire , supported by peasants.February 22 – TheLiberty Bell in Philadelphia is cracked while being rung for George Washington's birthday.March 9 – TheFirst Anglo-Sikh war ends with the signing of theTreaty of Lahore .[ 4] Kashmir is ceded to theBritish East India Company , and theKoh-i-Noor diamond is surrendered toQueen Victoria .March 10 – Prince Osahito, fourth son of deceasedEmperor Ninkō of Japan, becomesEmperor Kōmei .[ 5] April 25 –Mexican–American War : Open conflict begins, over the disputed border ofTexas .May – TheAssociated Press is founded in New York.May 8 –Mexican–American War –Battle of Palo Alto :Zachary Taylor defeats a Mexican force north of theRio Grande atPalo Alto, Texas in the first major battle of the war.May 11 – TheUniversity at Buffalo is founded by future United States Vice President and President,Millard Fillmore .[ 6] May 13 –Mexican–American War : The United States declares war on Mexico.May 15 – Under the leadership ofPrime Minister Robert Peel , theHouse of Commons of the United Kingdom votes to repeal theCorn Laws by passing an Importation Bill, replacing the oldcolonial mercantile trade system withfree trade [ 7] Great Famine (Ireland) . On June 25 theDuke of Wellington persuades theHouse of Lords to pass the Act, which will take full effect from February1849 . Peel, however, is forced to resign.May 16 – TheRevolution of Maria da Fonte begins in Portugal. It will be by royalist troops onFebruary 22 ,1847 .June 10 –Mexican–American War : TheCalifornia Republic declares independence from Mexico.June 14 –Bear Flag Revolt : American settlers inSonoma, California , start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim theCalifornia Republic .June 15 June 16 –Pope Pius IX succeedsPope Gregory XVI as the 255thpope . He will reign for 31½ years (the longest definitely confirmed).June 28 – Thesaxophone ispatented byAdolphe Sax .[ 8] July 7 –Mexican–American War :Battle of Monterey – Acting on instructions from Washington, D.C.,Commodore John Drake Sloat orders his troops to occupyMonterey andYerba Buena , thus beginning the United States annexation ofCalifornia .August 22 – TheSecond Federal Republic of Mexico is established.August 28 – TheNew Zealand Constitution Act 1846 is passed by theParliament of the United Kingdom with the intention of granting self-government to the Britishcolony . GovernorGeorge Grey suspends implementation of the majority of the Act, with the exception of the creation ofNew Ulster andNew Munster Provinces , and it is superseded by theNew Zealand Constitution Act 1852 .[ 9] August – Canadian physician and geologistAbraham Pineo Gesner demonstrates a process to refine a liquid fuel, which he callskerosene , fromcoal ,bitumen oroil shale . September 3 –Electric Telegraph Company founded in Britain.September 7 – The portion of theDistrict of Columbia in the United States that was ceded byVirginia in1790 isre-ceded to Virginia .September 10 –Elias Howe is awarded the first United States patent for asewing machine , using alockstitch design.[ 10] September 12 – PoetsElizabeth Barrett andRobert Browning marry privately in London, departing a week later for the continent.September 14 –Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court.September 19 –Our Lady of La Salette , aMarian apparition , is said to have been seen by two children atLa Salette-Fallavaux in France.September 23 –Discovery of Neptune : The planet is observed for the first time by German astronomersJohann Gottfried Galle andHeinrich Louis d'Arrest , as predicted by British astronomerJohn Couch Adams and French astronomerUrbain Le Verrier .September – TheSecond Carlist War (or the War of the Matiners or Madrugadores) begins in Spain.October 1 October 16 – AtMassachusetts General Hospital , Dr.William T. G. Morton , a dentist, gives the first successful public demonstration ofether anesthesia .[ 11] November 4 – TheDonner Party , a wagon train of 87 settlers traveling to California, is stranded in theSierra 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.[ 12] November 9 –Pope Pius IX issues theencyclical Qui pluribus [ 13] November 17 –Carl Zeiss , a major worldwideoptoelectronics anddigital camera brand , is founded inThuringia , Germany.[ 14] December 22 – TheGuild system in Sweden is abolished by theFabriks och Handtwerksordning Handelsordningen [ 15] December 24 –Great Britain acquiresLabuan from theSultanate of Brunei .December 28 –Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.Wilhelm Maybach Rita Cetina Gutiérrez January 5 January 26 –Henry Foster , Australian politician (d.1902 )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, 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 )[ 17] May 20 –Alexander von Kluck , German general (d.1934 )May 22 –Rita Cetina Gutiérrez , Mexican 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 )Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil George Westinghouse July 8 –John Mills "Private John" Allen , American lawyer and politician (d.1917 )[ 18] July 11 –Gertrude Abbott (Mother Abbott), founder of the formerSt Margaret's Hospital in Sydney, Australia (d.1934 )July 17 –Tokugawa Iemochi , 14thshōgun 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 8 –William White Miller , Irish Canadian businessman (d.1912 )August 16 –Oskar Victorovich Stark , Russian admiral and explorer (d.1928 )August 18 –Robley D. 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 25 October 1 –Nectarios of Aegina , Greek metropolitan and saint (d.1920 )October 6 –George Westinghouse , American entrepreneur, engineer (d.1914 )November 25 –Carrie Nation , American temperance advocate (d.1911 )December 2 –Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau , 29thPrime Minister of France (d.1904 )December 17 –Max von Hausen , German general (d.1922 )December 21 –Julia Lermontova , Russian chemist (d.1919 )Emperor Ninkō Pope Gregory XVI 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 )August 5 –Dorothy Thomas , Caribbean entrepreneur and former slave (b.1756 )August 16 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 )[ 19] October 2 –Benjamin Waterhouse , American physician, medical professor (b.1754 )October 15 –Bagyidaw , Burmese king (b.1784 )November 6 November 11 –José Escolástico Marín , Salvadoran politicianNovember 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 )^ "Venice Railroad Bridge" .Structurae . 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