Explore the major historical events, famous births, and notable deaths that occurred in the year 1846. This year saw 53 significant events. 1 notable figure was born.
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to...
Texas ( TEK-səss) is the most populous state in the South of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and an...
First officially recognized baseball game (played by Cartwright Rules) - NY Nine defeats the NY Knickerbockers 23-1 in Hoboken, New Jersey
US Act of Congress passes establishment of the Smithsonian Institution, now the world's largest museum and research complex
Italian "The Barber of Seville" opera composer Gioachino Rossini (54) marries 2nd wife, French model Olympe Pélissier (47) in Paris, France
Author and Seventh Day Adventist co-founder Ellen G. White (18) weds preacher James Springer White (25) in Portland, Maine
Elias Howe takes out a US patent for a lockstitch sewing machine
Poet and playwright Robert Browning (34) weds fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett (40) at Marylebone Church in London
Anesthetic ether is used for the first time by American dentist Dr. William Morton to extract a tooth
Prime Minister of Canada Charles Tupper (25) weds Frances Amelia Morse (20) in Amherst, Nova Scotia
Events from the year 1846 in the United States. In this year, the United States declares war on Mexico, starting the Mexican–American War.
Tunisia becomes the first Arab nation to outlaw slavery in decree issued by Ahmed I Bey [1]
Battle of Allwal, British beat Sikhs in Punjab
After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unified as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Theophile Gautier publishes "Hashish Club" about his initiation
Beginning of Mormon march to western US, as the caravan departs from Nauvoo, Illinois
The Oregon Spectator, was a newspaper published from 1846 to 1855 in Oregon City of what was first the Oregon Country and later the Oregon Territory of the United States.
The Battle of Sobraon was fought on 10 February 1846, between the forces of the East India Company and the Sikh Khalsa Army, the army of the declining Sikh Empire of the Punjab.
The First Anglo-Sikh War (also known as the First Anglo-Punjabi War) was fought between the Sikh Empire and the British Empire from 1845 to 1846 around the Firozpur district of Punjab.
Texas state government formally installed in Austin
Lahore is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Punjab. It is the second-largest city in Pakistan, after Karachi, and 27th largest in the world, with a population of over 14...
1st US woman telegrapher is Sarah G. Bagley of Lowell, Massachusetts
The Kraków Uprising (Polish: powstanie krakowskie, rewolucja krakowska; German: Krakauer Aufstand; Russian: краковское восстание) of 1846 was an attempt, led by Polish insurgents such as Jan...
Friedrich Hebbel's play "Maria Magdalena" premieres in Königsberg
Austrian explorer Ida Laura Pfeiffer (48) begins her first trip around world, leaving by boat from Hamburg bound for Rio de Janeiro
The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, (April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848) was an invasion of Mexico...
US state of Michigan ends the death penalty
The Battle of Palo Alto (Spanish: Batalla de Palo Alto) was the first major battle of the Mexican–American War and was fought on May 8, 1846, on disputed ground five miles (8 km) from the modern-day...
Battle of Resaca de la Palma-US sends Mexico back to Rio Grande
The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, (April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848) was an invasion of Mexico...
Hawaii is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles (3,200 km) southwest of the U.S. mainland. One of the two non-contiguous U.S.
Telegraph line opens between Philadelphia and Baltimore
Battle at Gwanga: British troops beat Bantu
Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tyre
Belgian Liberal Party forms
Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49°N
Residency tax on Jews of Hungary abolished
Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax was a Belgian inventor and musician who invented the saxophone in the early 1840s, patenting it in 1846.
Captain John B. Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (San Francisco) for US
The Conquest of California, also known as the Conquest of Alta California or the California Campaign, was a military campaign during the Mexican–American War carried out by the United States in Alta...
The 49th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 49° north of Earth's equator.
The Conquest of California, also known as the Conquest of Alta California or the California Campaign, was a military campaign during the Mexican–American War carried out by the United States in Alta...
Stephen Watts Kearny (sometimes spelled Kearney) (August 30, 1794 – October 31, 1848) was one of the foremost antebellum frontier officers of the United States Army.
HMS Terror and HMS Erebus, the British expedition searching for a Northwest Passage led by John Franklin, become trapped by ice near King William Island; all eventually perish [1]
Jung Bahadur Rana grabs power in Nepal
Johann Gottfried Galle (9 June 1812 – 10 July 1910) was a German astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis...
Alexis de Tocqueville writes about the "Algerian problem"
American physician William T. G. Morton gives the first public demonstration of the use of ether, allowing surgeon John Collins Warren to remove a tumor painlessly from the neck of Edward Abbott at Massachusetts General Hospital
Pioneers suffer a blizzard in the Sierra Nevada; 42 die
Donner Pass is a 7,056-foot-high (2,151 m) mountain pass in the northern Sierra Nevada, above Donner Lake and Donner Memorial State Park about 9 miles (14 km) west of Truckee, California.
American inventor Benjamin Palmer from Meredith, New Hampshire, patents the artificial leg
German-Swiss chemist Christian Freidrich Schoenbein obtains a patent for cellulose nitrate explosive
Events from the year 1846 in the United States. In this year, the United States declares war on Mexico, starting the Mexican–American War.
George Westinghouse engineer, inventor, and businessman, known for american engineer, inventor, and businessman, was born on 1846-10-06. George Westinghouse Jr.
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to...
Texas ( TEK-səss) is the most populous state in the South of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and an...
First officially recognized baseball game (played by Cartwright Rules) - NY Nine defeats the NY Knickerbockers 23-1 in Hoboken, New Jersey
US Act of Congress passes establishment of the Smithsonian Institution, now the world's largest museum and research complex
Italian "The Barber of Seville" opera composer Gioachino Rossini (54) marries 2nd wife, French model Olympe Pélissier (47) in Paris, France
Author and Seventh Day Adventist co-founder Ellen G. White (18) weds preacher James Springer White (25) in Portland, Maine
Elias Howe takes out a US patent for a lockstitch sewing machine
Poet and playwright Robert Browning (34) weds fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett (40) at Marylebone Church in London
Anesthetic ether is used for the first time by American dentist Dr. William Morton to extract a tooth
Prime Minister of Canada Charles Tupper (25) weds Frances Amelia Morse (20) in Amherst, Nova Scotia
Events from the year 1846 in the United States. In this year, the United States declares war on Mexico, starting the Mexican–American War.
Tunisia becomes the first Arab nation to outlaw slavery in decree issued by Ahmed I Bey [1]
Battle of Allwal, British beat Sikhs in Punjab
After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unified as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Theophile Gautier publishes "Hashish Club" about his initiation
Beginning of Mormon march to western US, as the caravan departs from Nauvoo, Illinois
The Oregon Spectator, was a newspaper published from 1846 to 1855 in Oregon City of what was first the Oregon Country and later the Oregon Territory of the United States.
The Battle of Sobraon was fought on 10 February 1846, between the forces of the East India Company and the Sikh Khalsa Army, the army of the declining Sikh Empire of the Punjab.
The First Anglo-Sikh War (also known as the First Anglo-Punjabi War) was fought between the Sikh Empire and the British Empire from 1845 to 1846 around the Firozpur district of Punjab.
Texas state government formally installed in Austin
Lahore is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Punjab. It is the second-largest city in Pakistan, after Karachi, and 27th largest in the world, with a population of over 14...
1st US woman telegrapher is Sarah G. Bagley of Lowell, Massachusetts
The Kraków Uprising (Polish: powstanie krakowskie, rewolucja krakowska; German: Krakauer Aufstand; Russian: краковское восстание) of 1846 was an attempt, led by Polish insurgents such as Jan...
Friedrich Hebbel's play "Maria Magdalena" premieres in Königsberg
Austrian explorer Ida Laura Pfeiffer (48) begins her first trip around world, leaving by boat from Hamburg bound for Rio de Janeiro
The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, (April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848) was an invasion of Mexico...
US state of Michigan ends the death penalty
The Battle of Palo Alto (Spanish: Batalla de Palo Alto) was the first major battle of the Mexican–American War and was fought on May 8, 1846, on disputed ground five miles (8 km) from the modern-day...
Battle of Resaca de la Palma-US sends Mexico back to Rio Grande
The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, (April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848) was an invasion of Mexico...
Hawaii is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles (3,200 km) southwest of the U.S. mainland. One of the two non-contiguous U.S.
Telegraph line opens between Philadelphia and Baltimore
Battle at Gwanga: British troops beat Bantu
Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tyre
Belgian Liberal Party forms
Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49°N
Residency tax on Jews of Hungary abolished
Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax was a Belgian inventor and musician who invented the saxophone in the early 1840s, patenting it in 1846.
Captain John B. Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (San Francisco) for US
The Conquest of California, also known as the Conquest of Alta California or the California Campaign, was a military campaign during the Mexican–American War carried out by the United States in Alta...
The 49th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 49° north of Earth's equator.
The Conquest of California, also known as the Conquest of Alta California or the California Campaign, was a military campaign during the Mexican–American War carried out by the United States in Alta...
Stephen Watts Kearny (sometimes spelled Kearney) (August 30, 1794 – October 31, 1848) was one of the foremost antebellum frontier officers of the United States Army.
HMS Terror and HMS Erebus, the British expedition searching for a Northwest Passage led by John Franklin, become trapped by ice near King William Island; all eventually perish [1]
Jung Bahadur Rana grabs power in Nepal
Johann Gottfried Galle (9 June 1812 – 10 July 1910) was a German astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis...
Alexis de Tocqueville writes about the "Algerian problem"
American physician William T. G. Morton gives the first public demonstration of the use of ether, allowing surgeon John Collins Warren to remove a tumor painlessly from the neck of Edward Abbott at Massachusetts General Hospital
Pioneers suffer a blizzard in the Sierra Nevada; 42 die
Donner Pass is a 7,056-foot-high (2,151 m) mountain pass in the northern Sierra Nevada, above Donner Lake and Donner Memorial State Park about 9 miles (14 km) west of Truckee, California.
American inventor Benjamin Palmer from Meredith, New Hampshire, patents the artificial leg
German-Swiss chemist Christian Freidrich Schoenbein obtains a patent for cellulose nitrate explosive
Events from the year 1846 in the United States. In this year, the United States declares war on Mexico, starting the Mexican–American War.