Lincoln in his late 30s – photo taken by one of Lincoln's law students around 1846

* 1846 – The Second Federal Republic of Mexico is established.

* 1846 – Anna Haining Bates, Canadian giant ( d. 1888 )

* Haliotis alfredensis Reeve, 1846-the Alfred's abalone – synonym: Haliotis speciosa Reeve, 1846, the splendid abalone

* Haliotis coccoradiata Reeve, 1846 – the reddish-rayed abalone

* Haliotis discus Reeve, 1846 – the disk abalone

** Haliotis diversicolor squamata Reeve, 1846 – synonym: Haliotis squamata – the scaly Australian abalone

* Haliotis jacnensis Reeve, 1846 – the Jacna abalone

* Haliotis rubiginosa Reeve, 1846 – synonym: Haliotis howensis, the Lord Howe abalone

Alcott's opposition to slavery also fueled his opposition to the Mexican – American War which began in 1846.

* 1846 – Luis Martín, Spanish religious leader ( d. 1906 )

* 1846 – Alexander Milne Calder, American sculptor ( d. 1923 )

* 1846 – The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois, for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship, cannibalism, and survival.

* John Pryor, 1846 – 1850

* 1846 – The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after James Smithson donates $ 500, 000.

* 1904 – Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French politician, 68th Prime Minister of France ( b. 1846 )

He married fourthly at the Dolmabahçe Palace, Constantinople, on 21 September 1866 to Georgian HH Hayranidil Kadın Efendi ( Kars, 2 November 1846 – Ortaköy Palace, Constantinople, 26 November 1898 ), and had two children.

* 1846 – Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.

* 1763 – Domenico Dragonetti, Italian double bass virtuoso and composer ( d. 1846 )

In 1899, the memorial, by the Berlin sculptor Ernst Gustav Herter ( 1846 – 1917 ), finally came to rest, although subject to repeated vandalism, in the Bronx, at 164th Street and the Grand Concourse, or Joyce Kilmer Park near today's Yankee Stadium.

Lord George Bentinck, Conservative leader in the commons 1846 – 48

* Pope Gregory XVI ( 1765 – 1846, r. 1831 – 46 )

Sir Charles FitzRoy ( Governor of New South Wales from 1846 – 1855 ) and Sir William Denison ( Governor of New South Wales from 1855 – 1861 ) also carried the additional title of Governor-General because their jurisdiction extended to other colonies in Australia.

The well-known English Masonic writer, Dr. George Oliver ( 1782 – 1867 ), in his " Historical Landmarks ", 1846, carried the story forward and even claimed that King Charles II was active in his attendance at meetings — an obvious invention, for if it had been true, it would not have escaped the notice of the historians of the time.

The explorer Charles Sturt, who visited the region from 1844 – 1846, was the first European to see the desert, but it was not until 1936 that Ted Colson became the first white person to cross it in its entirety.

** Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish nationalist leader ( b. 1846 )

* December 17 – Sylvain Charles Valée, Marshal of France ( d. 1846 )

Other successful productions of the play were staged by William Charles Macready ( 1842 ) and Charles Kean ( 1846 ).

* Bill Scott – Jack Spigot ( 1821 ), Memnon ( 1825 ), The Colonel ( 1828 ), Rowton ( 1829 ), Don John ( 1838 ), Charles the Twelfth ( 1839 ), Launcelot ( 1840 ), Satirist ( 1841 ), Sir Tatton Sykes ( 1846 )

It was finished in September 1846, and opened for local traffic after approval by the first Railway Inspector, General Charles Pasley.

Charles Piazzi Smyth ( 3 January 1819 – 21 February 1900 ), was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888, well known for many innovations in astronomy and his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

* Writer Charles Dickens, a one-time resident of Camden Town, placed various characters and places in his stories there as well: Bob Cratchit's family in A Christmas Carol ( 1843 ); the Micawbers in David Copperfield ( 1850 ); and in Dombey and Son ( 1846 – 1848 ), a description of the building of the London and Birmingham Railway, includes a trip through Camden Town.

He graduated in 1846, second in his class of 59 cadets, losing the top position ( to Charles Seaforth Stewart ) only because of poor drawing skills.

Thomas Stillwell and Eliza Fox Huntley and children, Charles, Harriet, and William arrived in 1846.

* Charles Stanton, a member of the famous Donner Party in 1846.

See also F Hardy, Memoirs of Lord Charlemont ( London, 1812 ); Warden Flood, Memoirs of Henry Flood ( London, 1838 ); Francis Plowden, Historical Review of the State of Ireland ( London, 1803 ); Alfred Webb, Compendium of Irish Biography ( Dublin, 1878 ); Sir Jonah Barrington, Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation ( London, 1833 ); WJ O ' Neill Daunt, Ireland and her Agitators ; Lord Mountmorres, History of the Irish Parliament ( 2 vole., London, 1792 ); Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George III ( 4 vols., London, 1845 and 1894 ); Lord Stanhope, Life of William Pitt ( 4 vols., London, 1861 ); Thomas Davis, Life of JP Curran ( Dublin, 1846 ) this contains a memoir of Grattan by DO Madden, and Grattan's reply to Lord Clare on the question of the Union ; Charles Phillips, Recollections of Curran and some of his Contemporaries ( London, 1822 ); JA Froude, The English in Ireland ( London, 1881 ); JG McCarthy, Henry Grattan: an Historical Study ( London, 1886 ); Lord Mahon's History of England, vol.

In a particularly famous test on a BBC Radio 3 programme in 1977, the violinists Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman and the violin expert and dealer Charles Beare tried to distinguish between the " Chaconne " Stradivarius, a 1739 Guarneri del Gesú, an 1846 Vuillaume, and a 1976 British violin played behind a screen by a professional soloist.

Reformist politicians such as Henry Grattan ( 1746 – 1820 ), Wolfe Tone ( 1763 – 1798 ), Robert Emmet ( 1778 – 1803 ), Sir John Gray ( 1815-1875 ), and Charles Stewart Parnell ( 1846 – 1891 ), were also Protestant nationalists, and in large measure led and defined Irish nationalism.

Samuel Enderby's grandson, Charles Enderby, proposed a community based on agriculture and whaling in 1846.

Charles Stewart Parnell ( 27 June 1846 – 6 October 1891 ) was an Irish landlord, nationalist political leader, land reform agitator, and the founder and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party.

" Parnell, Charles Stewart ( 1846 – 1891 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, H. C. G. Matthew & Brian Harrison ( Editors ), Oxford University Press, 2004-5, ISBN 978-0-19-861411-1

* Constantine Charles Henry Phipps, 3rd Marquess of Normanby ( 1846 – 1932 )

Charles Dickens wrote in 1846 that " All his life had utterly mistaken his vocation.

Thus at Riedenburg, near Bregenz, in August 1846, he entertained Charles Dickens and his wife and other well-known people.

Smith wrote several extravaganzas for the Lyceum Theatre, including Aladdin ( 1844 ), Valentine and Orson ( 1844 ) and Whittington and His Cat ( 1845 ), and adapted for the same theatre Charles Dickens's The Cricket on the Hearth ( 1845 ) and The Battle of Life ( 1846 ).