1846 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1846?
- January 5, 1846 – The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
- January 31, 1846 – After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- 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.
- February 23, 1846 – John Henry Newman leaves the Church of England and is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
- April 25, 1846 – Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.
- May 1, 1846 – The few remaining Mormons left in Nauvoo, Illinois, formally dedicate the Nauvoo Temple.
- May 8, 1846 – Mexican-American War: The Battle of Palo Alto – Zachary Taylor defeats a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande in the first major battle of the war.
- May 11, 1846 – President James K. Polk asked for and received a Declaration of War against Mexico, starting the Mexican-American War
- May 23, 1846 – Mexican-American War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States.
- May 24, 1846 – Mexican-American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey.
- June 14, 1846 – Bear Flag Revolt begins – Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
- 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.
- 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 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 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.
- 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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