Today in History for Year 1846

Months in Year 1846: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 65 of 65

Jan 1st - Yucatan declares independence from Mexico
Jan 5th - The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
Jan 21st - 1st edition of Charles Dickens' "Daily News"
Jan 28th - Battle of Allwal, Brits beat Sikhs in Punjab (India)
Jan 31st - After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unified as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Feb 1st - Theophile Gautier publishes "Hashish Club" about his initiation
Feb 4th - Mormons leave Nauvoo, Mo for settlement in west
Feb 5th - "Oregon Spectator" is 1st newspaper to be published on the West Coast
Feb 10th - Beginning of Mormon march to west US
Feb 10th - British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India
Feb 16th - Battle of Sobraon ends 1st Sikh War in India
Feb 19th - Texas state government formally installed in Austin
Feb 20th - British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore
Feb 21st - 1st US woman telegrapher, Sarah G Bagley, Lowell, Mass
Feb 23rd - Polish revolutionaries march on Cracow, but are defeated
Mar 13th - Friedrich Hebbel's "Maria Magdalena," premieres in Königsberg
Apr 25th - Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.
May 1st - Ida Pfeiffer (48) begins trip around world
May 3rd - Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas
Novelist Charles Dickens May 4th - US state Michigan ends death penalty
May 8th - 1st major battle of Mexican War fought at Palo Alto Texas
May 9th - Battle of Resaca de la Palma-US sends Mexico back to Rio Grande
May 13th - US declares war on Mexico, 2 months after fighting begins
May 18th - US troops attack Rio Grande occupying Matamoros
May 21st - 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii
May 24th - Gen Zachary Taylor captures Monterey in Mexican War
Jun 5th - Telegraph line opens between Phila & Balt
Jun 8th - Battle at Gwanga: British troops beat Bantu
Jun 10th - Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire
Jun 14th - Belgian Liberal Party forms
Jun 14th - California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma, declaring independence from Mexico
Jun 15th - Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49°N
Jun 19th - 1st baseball game (Cartwright Rules)-NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1
Jun 24th - Residency tax on Jews of Hungary abolished
Jun 28th - Saxophone is patented by Antoine Joseph Sax
Jul 7th - US annexs California
Jul 9th - Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (SF) for US
Jul 9th - The territory of the District of Columbia south of the Potomac River (39 mi² or about 100 km²) is returned to Virginia through an Act of Congress.
Jul 21st - Mormons found 1st English settlement in California (San Joaquin Valley)
Aug 5th - Oregon country divided between US & Britain at 49th parallel
Aug 10th - Congress charters "nation's attic," Smithsonian Institution
Naturalist/Pacifist Henry David Thoreau Aug 14th - Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance
Aug 14th - The Cape Girardeau meteorite, a 2.3 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes near the town of Cape Girardeau in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.
Aug 17th - US fleet officer Robert F Stockton annexes California
Aug 18th - Gen Stephen W Kearney's US forces captures Santa Fe NM
Aug 26th - Felix Mendelssohn's "Elijah," premieres
Aug 26th - W A Bartlett appointed 1st US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF)
Sep 10th - Elias Howe patents sewing machine
Sep 15th - Jung Bahadur Rana grabs power in Nepal
Sep 18th - Elizabeth Barrett & R Browning exchange last letters before eloping
Sep 23rd - Johann Gottfried Galle & Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune
Sep 25th - US troops under Gen Taylor occupies Monterey Mexico
Sep 30th - Anesthetic ether used for 1st time (Dr Wm Morton extracts a tooth)
Oct 10th - Alexis the Tocqueville writes about "Algerian problem"
Oct 10th - Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell
Oct 15th - Dr William Thomas Green Morton 1st public use of ether
Oct 16th - Dentist William T Morton demonstrates effectiveness of ether
Oct 28th - Pioneers suffer blizzard in Sierra Nevada; 42 die
Oct 31st - Donner party, unable to cross the Donner Pass, construct a winter camp
Nov 4th - Benjamin Palmer patents artificial leg
Nov 5th - Robert Schumann's 2nd Symphony in C, premieres
Dec 5th - C F Schoenbein obtains patent for cellulose nitrate explosive
Dec 6th - Opera "La Damnation de Faust" is produced (Paris)
Dec 8th - Hector Berlioz's "La Damnation de Faust," premieres
Dec 28th - Iowa becomes 29th state

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 80 of 80

Jan 1st - Nikola Pasic, Serbian nationalist/premier (1891..1926)
Jan 2nd - Sandor Erkel, composer
Jan 5th - Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Germany, Idealist philosopher (Nobel 1908)
Jan 8th - Albert Cahen, composer
Jan 8th - William Wallace Gilchrist, composer
Jan 29th - Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (d. 1915)
Jan 30th - Francis H Bradley, British philosopher (neo-idealism)
Feb 4th - Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (d. 1915)
Feb 9th - Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer, designer of 1st Mercedes
Feb 9th - Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (d. 1904)
Feb 10th - Mildred Childe "Life" Lee, daughter of confederate General Robert E Lee
Feb 10th - Charles Beresford, British admiral and politician (d. 1919)
Feb 10th - Ira Remsen, American chemist (d. 1927)
Feb 11th - William Fox Talbot, pioneer photographer/inventor
Feb 14th - Julian Scott, American artist and Civil War Medal of Honor recipient. (d. 1901)
Feb 18th - Wilson Barrett, English playwright (d. 1904)
Feb 24th - Luigi Denza, composer
Feb 26th - William F "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Davenport Iowa, killed 4000 buffaloes
Feb 27th - Joaquin Valverde, composer
Mar 3rd - Desiderio FA Pietri, Italian baker/marathon runner Dorando's father
Mar 10th - Edward Baker Lincoln, son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
Mar 11th - Antonio C G Crespo, Brazilian/Portuguese poet
Mar 16th - Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (d. 1927)
Mar 17th - Kate Greenaway, England, artist/book illustrator (Under the Window)
Mar 20th - Auguste Bender, writer
Mar 22nd - Randolph Caldecott, England, illustrator (Caldecott Medal namesake)
Apr 4th - Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (d. 1870)
Apr 28th - Johann E Backlund, Swedish astronomer (planets/asteroids)
Apr 30th - Rosalie Amstein, writer
May 2nd - Zygmunt Noskowski, composer
May 5th - Federico Chueca, composer
May 5th - Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland, author (Quo Vadis, Nobel 1905)
May 8th - Oscar Hammerstein, Germany, opera/playwright (Kohinoor)
May 9th - Nikolay Feopemptovich Solov'yov, composer
May 14th - Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch lib politician/founder (Social Weekly newspaper)
May 14th - Pieter W A Cort van de Linden, Dutch premier (1913-18)
May 17th - Edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle
May 25th - Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (d. 1923)
May 25th - Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and writer(d. 1900)
May 26th - Arthur Coquard, composer
May 29th - Albert Gyorgy earl Apponyi, Hungarian minister of Education
May 30th - Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (d. 1920)
Jun 4th - Josef Sittard, music writer
Jun 7th - Wladyslaw Gorski, composer
Jun 11th - William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (d. 1920)
Jun 19th - Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1928)
Jun 27th - Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party-Lower house member
Jun 30th - Ricardo Drigo, composer
Jul 3rd - Achilles Alferaki, composer
Jul 11th - Leon Bloy, French writer (d. 1917)
Jul 19th - Charles Edward Pickering, pioneered American spectroscopist
Jul 26th - Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (d. 1880)
Aug 4th - Silas Gamaliel Pratt, composer
Aug 16th - Justus van Maurik, Dutch cigar manufacturer/writer/editor (Groene)
Aug 19th - Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1906)
Aug 22nd - B Amalie Skram-Alver, Norway, writer (Hellemyrsfolket)
Aug 23rd - Alexander Milne Calder, American sculptor (d. 1923)
Aug 25th - Louise J Gautier, French poetess
Sep 4th - Daniel Burnham, US, architect/built skyscrapers
Sep 5th - John W Cromwell, Secy (American Negro Academy)
Sep 13th - Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (Africa)
Sep 20th - Agnes Tyrrell, composer
Entrepreneur and Engineer George Westinghouse (Oct 6th) Oct 6th - George Westinghouse, Central Bridge, New York, entrepreneur and engineer (alternated US currency), (d. 1914)
Oct 21st - Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer (Cuore)
Oct 23rd - Alexander Andreyevich Archangel'sky, composer
Oct 28th - Auguste Escoffier, king of chefs & chef of kings
Nov 2nd - Antonio Pena y Goni, composer
Nov 4th - Gaston Henri Charles Antoine Serpette, composer
Nov 5th - Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1869)
Nov 7th - Ignaz Brull, composer
Nov 10th - Martin Wegelius, Finnish musicologist/composer
Nov 10th - Paul Kuczynski, composer
Nov 18th - Aloys, Liechtenstein nobleman/politician
Nov 19th - Emile C Wauters, Belgium, painter (Van der Goes in the Red Monastery)
Nov 25th - Carrie Nation, American temperance advocate (d. 1911)
Dec 2nd - Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French Min of Foreign affairs/premier
Dec 6th - Henryk Jarecki, composer
Dec 22nd - Andreas Hallen, composer
Dec 31st - Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, vicar/Dutch anarchist (Right for all)
Dec 31st - Richard Kleinmichel, composer

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

Aug 16th - Opera Composer (The Barber of Seville) Gioacchino Rossini marries 2nd wife Olympe Pélissier in Paris

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 32 of 32

Jan 5th - Alfred Thomas Agate, American artist (b. 1812)
Jan 10th - Etienne P de Senancour, French writer (De l'Amour), dies at 75
Feb 3rd - Joseph Weigl, Austria composer/conductor (Waisenhaus), dies at 79
Feb 9th - Henry Gally Knight, architect/writer, dies
Feb 14th - Cornelis F van Maanen, Dutch supreme court justice, dies at 76
Feb 18th - Giovanni Liverati, composer, dies at 73
Feb 21st - Emperor Ninko of Japan (b. 1800)
Feb 22nd - Carolus Antonius Fodor, composer, dies at 77
Feb 22nd - Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher, dies at 49 [OS]
Mar 6th - Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher, dies at 49 [NS]
Mar 17th - Friedrich W Bessel, German astronomer (Bessel Functions), dies at 61
Apr 4th - Solomon Sibley, American senator from Michigan Territory (b. 1769)
Apr 16th - Domenico Dragonetti, composer, dies at 83
May 8th - Giacomo Cordella, composer, dies at 59
May 23rd - Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, Polish politician (b. 1778)
May 31st - Philip Marheineke, German clergyman (b. 1780)
Jun 1st - Gregory XVI, [Bartolomeo A Cappellari]/Mauro, Pope dies at 80
Jun 20th - Pieter Adams, architect of Rotterdam, dies at about 67
Jun 28th - Adrian van de Ende, vicar/protestant reformer, dies at 77
Jul 24th - Joseph Leopold Eybler, Austrian composer/choir master, dies at 81
Jul 24th - Louis Napoleon, French king of the Netherlands (1806-10), dies at 67
Aug 1st - Peter Ritter, composer, dies at 83
Aug 7th - Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, composer, dies at 76
Aug 25th - Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian nature investigator/diplomat, dies at 73
Aug 27th - Frantiszek Scigalski, composer, dies at 64
Aug 27th - Gottfied Wilhelm Fink, composer, dies at 63
Sep 17th - Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer, dies at 84
Sep 23rd - John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (b. 1818)
Oct 29th - Jean Louis van Aelbroeck, Flemish agronoom, dies at 90
Nov 6th - Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and activist (b. 1800)
Nov 6th - Alexander Chavchavadze, Georgian poet and general
Dec 23rd - Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, French naturalist (b. 1780)