1845
:
1845 is also the name of a song on
One Minute Silence's album
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1845 was a
common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).
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January 23 - The
U.S. Congress establishes a uniform date for federal elections, which will henceforth be held on the first
Tuesday after the first
Monday in
November.
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January 29 -
The Raven by
Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time (
New York Evening Mirror).
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February 7 - In the
British Museum, drunken visitor smashes
Portland Vase - it takes months to repair
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March 1 - President
John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the
United States to annex the
Republic of Texas.
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March 3 -
Florida is admitted as the 27th
U.S. state.
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March 3 - For the first time the
U.S. Congress passes legislation overriding a presidential
veto.
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March 4 -
James K. Polk succeeds
John Tyler as
President of the United States of America *
March 11 -
Flagstaff War: Chiefs
Kawiti and
Hone Heke lead 700
Māoris in the burning of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka, now known as
Russell.
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March 17 - The
rubber band is invented in
England*
May 20 - The HMS
Erebus and
Terror with 134 men under
John Franklin sail from the
River Thames beginning a disastrous expedition to find the
Northwest Passage.
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July 4 - Near
Concord, Massachusetts,
Henry David Thoreau embarks on a two-year experiment in simple living at
Walden Pond (see
Walden).
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July 20 -
Charles Sturt enters the
Simpson Desert in central
Australia*
August 9 -
Aberdeen Act signed.
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August 28 -
Scientific American begins publication
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October 9 - The eminent and controversial
Anglican,
John Henry Newman, is received into the
Roman Catholic Church*
October 10 - In
Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the
United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors.
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October 13 - A majority of voters in the
Republic of Texas approve a proposed constitution, that if accepted by the
U.S. Congress, will make
Texas a
U.S. state.
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December 2 -
Manifest Destiny: US President
James Polk announces to Congress that the
Monroe Doctrine should be strictly enforced and that the
United States should aggressively expand into the West.
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December 5 -
Templars of Honor and Temperance founded.
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December 6 - Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity founded.
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December 27 -
Anesthesia is used for childbirth for the first time (Dr.
Crawford Williamson Long in
Jefferson, Georgia).
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December 29 -
Texas is admitted as the 28th
U.S. state.
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December 30 -
Queen's Colleges of
Belfast,
Cork and
Galway are incorporated in
Ireland.
Month/day unknown
* Second separation of Republic of
Yucatan from
Mexico* Beginning of the
Irish potato famine.
* Ephraim Bee reveals that the Emperor of China has given him a special dispensation; that he had entrusted him with certain sacred and mysterious rituals through Caleb Cushing, the US Commissioner to China, to "extend the work and influence of the Ancient and Honorable Order of
E Clampus Vitus" in the new world.
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Templars of Honor and Temperance established in U.S.
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Irish Potato Famine (1845-1849)
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February 15 -
Elihu Root, American statesman and diplomat, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1937)
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February 25 -
George Reid, fourth
Prime Minister of Australia (d.
1918)
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March 2 -
Francisco Domingo Marques, Spanish painter(d.
1920)
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March 3 -
Georg Cantor, German mathematician (d.
1918)
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March 10 - Emperor
Alexander III of Russia (d.
1894)
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March 27 -
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1923)
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April 24 -
Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1924)
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May 12 -
Gabriel Fauré, French composer (d.
1924)
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May 16 -
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1916)
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May 17 -
Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (d.
1902)
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May 25 -
Eugène Grasset, Swiss-born artist (d.
1917)
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May 25 -
Lip Pike, baseball player (d.
1893)
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May 30 - King
Amadeus I of Spain (d.
1890)
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June 7 -
Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (d.
1930)
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June 9 -
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (d.
1914)
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June 18 -
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1922)
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July 18 -
Tristan Corbière, French poet (d.
1875)
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July 19 -
Horatio Nelson Young, American naval hero (d.
1913)
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August 10 -
Abai Kunanbaev, Kazak poet (d.
1904)
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August 19 -
Edmond James de Rothschild, French
philanthropist (d.
1934)
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August 25 - King
Ludwig II of Bavaria (d.
1886)
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November 3 -
Edward Douglass White, 9th
Chief Justice of the United States (d.
1921)
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November 4 -
Vasudeo Balwant Phadke,
Indian revolutionary (d.
1883)
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November 10 -
John Sparrow David Thompson,
Prime Minister of Canada (d.
1894)
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Joshua Levering, American Presidential candidate (d. ?)
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April 10 -
Dr. Thomas Sewall, American anatomist
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May 12 -
Janos Bacsanyi, Hungarian poet (b.
1763)
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June 8 -
Andrew Jackson, 7th
President of the United States (b.
1767)
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October 12 -
Elizabeth Fry, British humanitarian (b.
1780)
