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== Events ==
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=== January–March ===
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* [[January 5]] – The [[United States House of Representatives]] votes to stop sharing the [[Oregon Country]] with the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]].
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* [[February 4]] – Many [[Mormons]] begin their migration west from [[Nauvoo, Illinois]], to the [[Great Salt Lake]], led by [[Brigham Young]].
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* [[February 19]] – United States president [[James K. Polk|James K. Polk's]] [[Texas annexation|annexation]] of the [[Republic of Texas]] is finalized by Texas president [[Anson Jones]] in a formal ceremony of transfer of sovereignty. The newly formed [[Texas]] [[state government]] is officially installed in [[Austin, Texas|Austin]].
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* [[March 10]] – Prince Osahito, fourth son of deceased [[Emperor Ninkō]] of Japan, becomes [[Emperor Kōmei]].
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=== April–June ===
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* [[April 25]] – [[Mexican–American War]]: Open conflict begins, over the disputed border of [[Texas]].
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* [[May]] – The [[Associated Press]] is founded in New York.
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* [[May 8]] – [[Mexican–American War]] – [[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.
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* [[May 13]] – [[Mexican–American War]]: The United States declares war on Mexico.
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* [[May 15]] – Under the leadership of [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Robert Peel]], the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom]] votes to repeal the [[Corn Laws]] by passing an Importation Bill, replacing the old [[Colonialism|colonial]] mercantile trade system with [[free trade]].<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20070817165102/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1840-1860 </ref> On June 25 the [[Duke of Wellington]] persuades the [[House of Lords]] to pass the Act, which will take full effect from February [[1849]].
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* [[May 16]] – The [[Revolution of Maria da Fonte]] begins in Portugal (it is crushed by royalist troops on [[February 22]], [[1847]]).
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* [[June 10]] – [[Mexican–American War]]: The [[California Republic]] declares independence from Mexico.
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* [[June 15]]
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** The [[Oregon Treaty]] establishes the [[49th parallel north|49th parallel]] as the border between the United States and Canada, from the [[Rocky Mountains]] to the [[Strait of Juan de Fuca]].
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* [[June 16]] – [[Pope Pius IX]] succeeds [[Pope Gregory XVI]] as the 255th [[pope]]. He will reign for 31½ years (the longest definitely confirmed).
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* [[June 25]] – The British Parliament votes to repeal the [[Corn Laws#Repeal|Corn Laws]], in an attempt to relieve the Irish Famine. This brings about the resignation of Peel, the Prime Minister, and sets Great Britain on a path towards Free Trade.
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=== July–September ===
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* [[July 7]] – [[Mexican–American War]] – [[Battle of Monterey]]: Acting on instructions from Washington, D.C., [[Commodore (USN)|Commodore]] [[John Drake Sloat]] orders his troops to occupy [[Monterey, California|Monterey]] and [[Yerba Buena, California|Yerba Buena]], thus beginning the United States annexation of [[California]].
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* August – Canadian physician and geologist [[Abraham Pineo Gesner]] demonstrates a process to refine a liquid fuel, which he calls [[kerosene]], from [[coal]], [[bitumen]] or [[oil shale]].
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* [[August 22]] – The [[Second Federal Republic of Mexico]] is established.
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* [[September]] – The [[Second Carlist War]] (or the War of the Matiners or Madrugadores) begins in Spain.
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* [[September 3]] – [[Electric Telegraph Company]] founded in Britain.
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=== October–December ===
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* [[November 9]] – [[Pope Pius IX]] issues the [[encyclical]] ''[[Qui pluribus]]'', in response to the growing trend of agnosticism among intellectuals in Europe.<ref>Gerald A. McCool, ''Nineteenth-century Scholasticism: The Search for a Unitary Method'' (Fordham University Press, 1989) p129</ref>
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=== Date unknown ===
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* [[1846–1860 cholera pandemic]] breaks out in south Asia; in the United Kingdom, Parliament passes ''The Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Act''.
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* The [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Famine]] continues in Ireland. The first deaths from hunger take place early in the year and ''[[Phytophthora infestans]]'' almost totally destroys the summer potato crop.
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Revision as of 23:16, 1 March 2021

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year 1846

Events

January–March

April–June


July–September

October–December


Date unknown

  • 1846–1860 cholera pandemic breaks out in south Asia; in the United Kingdom, Parliament passes The Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Act.
  • The Great Famine continues in Ireland. The first deaths from hunger take place early in the year and Phytophthora infestans almost totally destroys the summer potato crop.


 

Events

EventStartEnd
Pax Brittanica18151915
Victorian era18401901

 

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References

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20070817165102/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1840-1860
  2. ↑ Gerald A. McCool, Nineteenth-century Scholasticism: The Search for a Unitary Method (Fordham University Press, 1989) p129
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