1846 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1846?
- January 5, 1846 – The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
- February 4, 1846 – The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Utah Territory.
- February 19, 1846 – In Austin, Texas the newly formed Texas state government is officially installed. The Republic of Texas government officially transfers power to the State of Texas government following Texas’ annexation by the United States.
- 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 13, 1846 – Mexican-American War: The United States declares war on Mexico.
- May 24, 1846 – Mexican-American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey.
- June 14, 1846 – Bear Flag Revolt begins – Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
- 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.
- June 28, 1846 – The saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax in Paris, France.
- July 7, 1846 – Mexican-American War: American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the U.S. acquisition of California.
- September 10, 1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
- 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.
- September 23, 1846 – Neptune is discovered by French astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier and British astronomer John Couch Adams; the discovery is verified by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.
- October 16, 1846 – William TG Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
- December 26, 1846 – Trapped in snow in the Sierra Nevadas and without food, members of the Donner Party resort to cannibalism.
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