1846

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Decade.png 1840s: )    Year.png 1846 Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Mexican–American War (without Scott's Campaign)-en.png
The Mexican–American War begins with a "border incident", what Congressman Abraham Lincoln called "a bold falsification of history."
year 1846

Events

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April–June


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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

 

New Groups

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Associated PressThe news poisoned at the source.pngCommercial
Non-profit
Very important hub of corporate media
University at BuffaloUniversity at Buffalo seal.pngResearch
Public
Flagship
Space-grant
Sea-grant
The largest public university in the state of New York
Banco de PortugalSelo do Banco de Portugal (1846) - Domingos Sequeira.pngThe national bank of Portugal, swallowed by the Euro-system since 1998.
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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