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( 1840s: )     1845
An Irish Peasant Family Discovering the Blight of their Store by Cork artist Daniel MacDonald
Year 1845

Events

• January 23 – The United States Congress establishes a uniform date for federal elections, which will henceforth be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
• March 1 – President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
• March 4 – James K. Polk is sworn in, as the 11th President of the United States.
• August 9 – The Aberdeen Act is passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, empowering the British Royal Navy to search Brazilian ships, as part of the abolition of the slave trade from Africa.
• September 9 – Potato blight breaks out in Ireland, beginning the Great Famine.
• September 18 – The Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata is formally declared.
• December 2 – Manifest destiny: U.S. President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the Monroe Doctrine should be strictly enforced, and that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
• December 11 – First Anglo-Sikh War: Sikh army crosses the Sutlej in the Punjab.
• December 27 - American newspaper editor John L. O'Sullivan claims (in connection with the annexation of the Oregon Country) in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review that the United States should be allowed "the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions". It is the second time he uses the term manifest destiny (first in connection with the Republic of Texas in July – August), and it will have a huge influence on American imperialism in the following century.

 

Events

Event	Start	End
Pax Brittanica	1815	1915
Victorian era	1840	1901

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Queen's University Belfast		Public research university	Northern Ireland university
University College Galway		Research Public	A public university located in the city of Galway, Ireland.
Royal Agricultural University		Public	The first agricultural college in the English-speaking world.
Baldwin-Wallace College		Military ranks	Ohio liberal arts college
Wittenberg University		Military ranks Lutheranism Liberal arts	Private liberal arts college in Springfield, Ohio
Baylor University		Military ranks	Oldest continuously operating university in Texas

 

A Death

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Summary
Andrew Jackson	15 March 1767	8 June 1845	US Tennessee Nashville	Lawyer Planter Soldier

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Elihu Root	15 February 1845	New York Bill Clinton	7 February 1937	Lawyer Deep politician	US deep politician. A member of J. P. Morgan's Corsair Club.
Edmond James de Rothschild	19 August 1845	Boulogne-Billancourt	2 November 1934	Art collector
Edward Douglass White	3 November 1845	United States Louisiana Thibodaux	19 May 1921	Judge
Leopold de Rothschild	22 November 1845		29 May 1917	Politician Banker Rothschild family

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