1846 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1846?
- January 28, 1846 – The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
- January 31, 1846 – After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- February 4, 1846 – The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Utah Territory.
- February 18, 1846 – Beginning of the Galician peasant revolt.
- February 23, 1846 – John Henry Newman leaves the Church of England and is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
- March 27, 1846 – Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
- April 14, 1846 – The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois, for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship, cannibalism, and survival.
- May 1, 1846 – The few remaining Mormons left in Nauvoo, Illinois, formally dedicate the Nauvoo Temple.
- May 7, 1846 – The Cambridge Chronicle, America’s oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- May 8, 1846 – Mexican-American War: The Battle of Palo Alto – Zachary Taylor defeats a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande in the first major battle of the war.
- May 11, 1846 – President James K. Polk asked for and received a Declaration of War against Mexico, starting the Mexican-American War
- May 23, 1846 – Mexican-American War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States.
- May 24, 1846 – Mexican-American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey.
- June 19, 1846 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball match is played under Alexander Cartwright’s rules on Hoboken, New Jersey’s Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. Cartwright umpired.
- July 7, 1846 – Mexican-American War: American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the U.S. acquisition of California.
- August 10, 1846 – The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after James Smithson donates $500,000.
- September 12, 1846 – Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning.
- September 19, 1846 – Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
- October 16, 1846 – William TG Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
- December 28, 1846 – Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.
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