1846: Difference between revisions

1846 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1846; MDCCCXLVI
Ab urbe condita	2599
Armenian calendar	1295; ԹՎ ՌՄՂԵ
Assyrian calendar	6596
Baháʼí calendar	2–3
Balinese saka calendar	1767–1768
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 (Wood Snake); 4543 or 4336; — to —; 丙午年 (Fire Horse); 4544 or 4337
Coptic calendar	1562–1563
Discordian calendar	3012
Ethiopian calendar	1838–1839
Hebrew calendar	5606–5607
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1902–1903
- Shaka Samvat	1767–1768
- Kali Yuga	4946–4947
Holocene calendar	11846
Igbo calendar	846–847
Iranian calendar	1224–1225
Islamic calendar	1262–1263
Japanese calendar	Kōka 3; (弘化３年)
Javanese calendar	1773–1774
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4179
Minguo calendar	66 before ROC; 民前66年
Nanakshahi calendar	378
Thai solar calendar	2388–2389
Tibetan calendar	阴木蛇年; (female Wood-Snake); 1972 or 1591 or 819; — to —; 阳火马年; (male Fire-Horse); 1973 or 1592 or 820

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century; 19th century ; 20th century;
Decades:	1820s; 1830s; 1840s ; 1850s; 1860s;
Years:	1843; 1844; 1845; 1846 ; 1847; 1848; 1849;

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For the game, see 1846 (board game).

April 25 - Mexican-American War: Open conflict begins over border disputes of Texas' boundaries.
April 27 - The first arrival of a train to Celje.
May 8 - Mexican-American War: The 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.
16 May - 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.
May 17 - The Saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax.
May 25 - The Royal Geographical Society awards P.E Strzelecki a Gold medal "for exploration in the south eastern portion of Australia".
June 10 - Mexican-American War: The California Republic declares independence from Mexico.
June 10 - Grinnell College was founded.
June 14 - Bear Flag Revolt begins - 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.[1]
June 16 - Pope Pius IX succeeds Pope Gregory XVI as the 255th pope.

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 14 - The Cape Girardeau meteorite, a 2.3 kg chondrite type meteorite struck earth 7.5 miles (12 km) south of the town of Cape Girardeau in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.
September 23 – Neptune discovered by German astronomers Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, although the planet did not get its current name for many years.

October 1 - Christ College opens with the hope that it would develop along the lines of an Oxbridge college and provide the basis for university education in Tasmania. Today, it's the oldest tertiary instituition in Australia.
December 28: Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.

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.
Elias Howe patents the sewing machine.
Railway Mania in Britain reaches its zenith.
Rotary printing press invented making rapid printing of newspapers possible.

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 - Buffalo Bill, American hunter and entertainer (d. 1917)
April 4 - Comte de Lautreamont, French writer (d. 1870)
May 5 - Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
June 11 - William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (d. 1920)
June 27 - Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish political leader (d. 1891)

July 17 - Tokugawa Iemochi, Japanese shogun (d. 1866)
September 16 - Anna Kingsford, British spiritual writer, doctor, feminist and pioneering vegetarian.
November 25 - Carrie Nation, American temperance advocate (d. 1911)

See also Category: 1846 births.

August 16 - Sylvain Charles Valée, Marshal of France (b. 1773)
September 23 - John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (b. 1818)
November 6 - Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and social activist (b. 1800)
November 6 - Alexander Chavchavadze, Georgian Romantic poet and military figure (b. 1786)

See also Category: 1846 deaths.

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