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:''For the game, see [[1846 (board game)]].''
Year '''1846''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDCCCXLVI]]''') was a [[common year starting on Thursday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Gregorian Calendar]] (or a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] of the 12-day slower [[Julian calendar]]).
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==Events of 1846==
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* [[January 5]] - The [[United States House of Representatives]] votes to stop sharing the [[Oregon Territory]] with the [[United Kingdom]].
* [[February 10]] - Many [[Mormon]]s begin their migration west from [[Nauvoo, Illinois]], to [[Great Salt Lake]] led by [[Brigham Young]].
* [[February 19]] - In [[Austin, Texas]] the newly-formed [[Texas]] [[state government]] is officially installed.
* [[March 10]] - Prince Osahito, fourth son of deceased [[Emperor Ninko]] of Japan, becomes [[Emperor Kōmei]].
* [[April 25]] - [[Mexican-American War]]: Open conflict begins over border disputes of [[Texas]]' boundaries.
* [[May 8]] - [[Mexican-American War]]: The [[Battle of Palo Alto]] - [[Zachary Taylor]] defeats a [[Mexico|Mexican]] force north of the [[Rio Grande]] at [[Palo Alto, Texas]] in the first major battle of the war.
* [[May 13]] - [[Mexican-American War]]: The [[United States]] declares war on [[Mexico]].
* [[16 May]] - Under the leadership of [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]] [[Prime Minister]] [[Robert Peel]], the British [[Parliament]] repeals the [[Corn Laws]], replacing the old [[Colonial]] mercantile trade system with [[Free Trade]].
* [[May 17]] - The [[Saxophone]] is patented by [[Adolphe Sax]].
* [[May 25]] - The [[Royal Geographical Society]] awards [[Paweł Edmund Strzelecki]] a Gold medal "for exploration in the south eastern portion of Australia".{{Fact|date=May 2008}}
* [[June 10]] - [[Mexican-American War]]: The [[California Republic]] declares independence from [[Mexico]].
* [[June 14]] - [[Bear Flag Revolt]] begins - [[United States|American]] settlers in [[Sonoma, California]] start a rebellion against [[Mexico]] and proclaim the [[California Republic]].
* [[June 15]] - The [[Oregon Treaty]] establishes the [[49th parallel]] as the border between the [[United States]] and [[Canada]], from the [[Rocky Mountains]] to the [[Strait of Juan de Fuca]].
* [[June 15]] - Launceston Church Grammar School opened for the first time.
* [[June 16]] - [[Pope Pius IX]] succeeds [[Pope Gregory XVI]] as the 255th [[pope]].
* [[July 7]] - Acting on instructions from [[Washington, DC]], [[Commodore (USN)|Commodore]] [[John Drake Sloat]] orders his troops to occupy [[Monterey, California|Monterey]] and [[Yerba Buena]] thus beginning the [[United States]] annexation of [[California]].
* [[September 19]] - [[Our Lady of La Salette|The Virgin Mary]] is said to have appeared to two children in La Salette, France.
* [[September 23]] - [[Discovery of Neptune]]: The planet is observed for the first time by [[Germany|German]] astronomers [[Johann Gottfried Galle]] and [[Heinrich Louis d'Arrest]] as predicted by the British astronomer [[John Couch Adams]] and the French astronomer [[Urbain Le Verrier]], although the planet did not get its current name for many years.
* [[October 1]] - [[Christ College, Tasmania]] opens with the hope that it would develop along the lines of an [[Oxbridge]] college and provide the basis for university education in Tasmania. Today, it is the oldest tertiary instituition in [[Australia]].
* [[December 28]]: [[Iowa]] is admitted as the 29th [[U.S. state]].
===Undated===
* The portion of the [[District of Columbia]] that was ceded by [[Virginia]] in [[1790]] is re-ceded to [[Virginia]].
* [[Electric Telegraph]] Company founded in [[United Kingdom|Britain]].
* [[Elias Howe]] patents the [[sewing machine]].
* [[Rotary printing press]] invented, making rapid printing of newspapers possible.
*Potato crop fails in [[Ireland]].
*[[Cholera]] epidemic in [[England]].
===Ongoing events===
* [[Mexican-American War]] (1846-[[1848]])
* [[Great Irish Famine]] ([[1845]]-[[1849]])
==Births==
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* [[January 5]] - [[Rudolf Christoph Eucken]], German writer, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1926]])
* [[January 27]] - [[M. Lewis Clark]] American founder of [[Kentucky Derby]] (d. [[1899]])
* [[February 2]] - [[Francis Marion Smith]], American borax magnate (d. [[1931]])
* [[February 9]] - [[Wilhelm Maybach]], German automobile designer (d. [[1929]])
* [[February 18]] - [[Wilson Barrett]], English actor (d. [[1904]])
* [[February 26]] - [[Buffalo Bill|William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody]], American frontiersman (d. [[1917]])
* [[April 4]] - [[Comte de Lautreamont]], French writer (d. [[1870]])
* [[May 5]] - [[Henryk Sienkiewicz]], Polish author, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1916]])
* [[June 11]] - [[William Louis Marshall]], American general and engineer (d. [[1920]])
* [[June 27]] - [[Charles Stewart Parnell]], Irish political leader (d. [[1891]])
* [[July 17]] - [[Tokugawa Iemochi]], Japanese shogun (d. [[1866]])
* [[July 26]] - [[Texas Jack Omohundro]], American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (d. [[1880]])
* [[August 23]] - [[Alexander Milne Calder]], American sculptor (d. [[1923]])
* [[September 16]] - [[Anna Kingsford]], British spiritual writer, doctor, feminist and pioneering vegetarian.
* [[November 25]] - [[Carrie Nation]], American temperance advocate (d. [[1911]])
: ''See also [[:Category: 1846 births]].''
==Deaths==
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*[[February 21]] - [[Emperor Ninko of Japan]] (b. [[1800]])
*[[March 17]] - [[Friedrich Bessel]], German mathematician and astronomer (b. [[1784]])
*[[May 23]] - [[Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki]], Polish politician (b. [[1778]])
*[[June 1]] - [[Pope Gregory XVI]] (b. [[1765]])
*[[June 8]] - [[Rodolphe Töpffer]], Swiss author, painter, and caricature artist (b. [[1799]])
*[[August 16]] - [[Sylvain Charles Valée]], [[Marshal of France]] (b. [[1773]])
*[[September 14]] - [[Jacques Dupre]], Louisiana State Representative, State Senator, and Governor (b.[[1773]])
*[[September 23]] - [[John Ainsworth Horrocks]], English-born explorer of South Australia (b. [[1818]])
*[[November 6]]
**[[Karol Marcinkowski]], Polish physician and social activist (b. [[1800]])
**[[Alexander Chavchavadze]], Georgian Romantic poet and military figure (b. [[1786]])
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: ''See also [[:Category: 1846 deaths]].''
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