1846 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1846?
- January 28, 1846 – The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
- February 4, 1846 – The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Utah Territory.
- February 10, 1846 – First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon – British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
- February 19, 1846 – In Austin, Texas the newly formed Texas state government is officially installed. The Republic of Texas government officially transfers power to the State of Texas government following Texas’ annexation by the United States.
- March 27, 1846 – Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
- April 14, 1846 – The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois, for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship, cannibalism, and survival.
- May 1, 1846 – The few remaining Mormons left in Nauvoo, Illinois, formally dedicate the Nauvoo Temple.
- May 7, 1846 – The Cambridge Chronicle, America’s oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- May 23, 1846 – Mexican-American War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States.
- June 14, 1846 – Bear Flag Revolt begins – Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
- June 15, 1846 – 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.
- June 16, 1846 – The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is elected Pope beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy (not counting St. Peter).
- June 19, 1846 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball match is played under Alexander Cartwright’s rules on Hoboken, New Jersey’s Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. Cartwright umpired.
- September 10, 1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
- September 12, 1846 – Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning.
- September 14, 1846 – Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court.
- September 23, 1846 – Neptune is discovered by French astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier and British astronomer John Couch Adams; the discovery is verified by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.
- September 25, 1846 – U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor capture the Mexican city of Monterrey.
- October 16, 1846 – William TG Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
- December 26, 1846 – Trapped in snow in the Sierra Nevadas and without food, members of the Donner Party resort to cannibalism.
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