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.
- January 31, 1846 – After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- 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.
- February 23, 1846 – John Henry Newman leaves the Church of England and is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
- March 27, 1846 – Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
- 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 13, 1846 – Mexican-American War: The United States declares war on Mexico.
- May 23, 1846 – Mexican-American War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States.
- 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.
- June 28, 1846 – The saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax in Paris, France.
- July 7, 1846 – Mexican-American War: American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the U.S. acquisition of California.
- August 10, 1846 – The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after James Smithson donates $500,000.
- 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 19, 1846 – Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
- 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 28, 1846 – Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.
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