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 – Charles Woodruff, American archer ( d. 1927 )

* 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 )

His first wife Elizabeth Bromley died in 1846 aged 27, after giving birth to a daughter, Lucy.

* Elizabeth Barret Browning writes her Sonnets from the Portuguese ( 1845 – 1846 ).

* Nancy Elizabeth, 1846 – 1920 ( named after her grandmothers )

* October 1-Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, English novelist ( died 1846 )

Elizabeth Southerden Thompson, Lady Butler ( 3 November 1846 – 2 October 1933 ) was a British painter, one of the few female painters to achieve fame for history paintings, especially military battle scenes, at the end of that tradition.

" The works of his later years include " Vasco da Gama encountering the Spirit of the Storm ," a picture immense in size and most powerful in conception finished in 1842, and now preserved in the Trinity House, Leith ; the " Duke of Gloucester entering the Water Gate of Calais " ( 1841 ); the " Alchemist " ( 1818 ), " Queen Elizabeth at the Globe Theatre " ( 1840 ) and " Peter the Hermit " ( 1845 ), remarkable for varied and elaborate character painting ; and " Ariel and Caliban " ( 1837 ) and the " Triumph of Love " ( 1846 ), distinguished by beauty of colouring and depth of poetic feeling.

He himself died in London on 13 January 1838, leaving behind him two daughters, Lady Frances Bankes and Lady Elizabeth Repton, and a grandson John ( 1805-1854 ), who succeeded him as second earl, the title subsequently passing to the latter's son John ( b. 1846 ).

* Elizabeth Bassett Harrison ( 29 September 1796-27 September 1846 )

In 1846 Sidney Herbert married Elizabeth ( b. Richmond, 21 July 1822 ; d. Herbert House, London, 30 Oct 1911 ), only daughter of Lt .- Gen. Charles Ash à Court-Repington and niece of William à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury.

During the Mexican War ( 1846 – 1848 ) Elizabeth Newcom enlisted in Company D of the Missouri Volunteer Infantry disguised as a man, calling herself Bill Newcom.

He was a partner with Fowler & Wells, publishers, New York, from 1846 to 1854, residing in Fishkill, New York and Elizabeth, New Jersey.

* Lady Elizabeth Grey ( 1765 – 1846 ) married Samuel Whitbread

Henry Abbey was born in Akron, Ohio on June 27, 1846, to clockmaker Henry Stephen Abbey and Elizabeth Smith Abbey.

A monument to him in Elizabeth, New Jersey was dedicated in 1846.

Elizabeth Sophia ( 1843 – 1880 ), John Mowlem ( 1845 – 1894 ), Annie ( 1846 – 1918 ), Emma Rust ( 1849 – 1910 ) and George ( 1851 -?

He married Elizabeth Allen ( 1764 – 1846 ) and they had seven children:

Wedgwood married Elizabeth Allen ( 1764 – 1846 ) and they had four sons and three daughters, two of whom married their first cousins, the offspring of Robert Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood:

Charles and Hannah had 13 children: Charles ( 1838 – 1903 ), Frederick ( 1839 – 1905, married Anne Jane Sutcliffe ), Elizabeth ( 1840 – 1912, married Thomas Boyes ), Henry ( 1842 – 1866 ), Ellen ( 1844 – 1845 ), Edward ( 1845 – 1845 ), Walter ( 1846 – 1911 ), Thirza Ann ( 1849 – 1929, married Robert William Skilton ), Edmund ( 1851 – 1923, married Annie Morris ), Emily ( 1853 – 1923 ), Jessie ( 1855 – 1904 ), Arthur William ( 1857 – 1946, married Eliza Jane Wilson ), and Horace ( 1859 – 1867 ).

* Elizabeth Doty / Cravath ( 29 April 1808 New York-21 January 1889 Utah ), married on 11 April 1846.

1845 – 1846 and first published in 1850, is a collection of forty-four love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

In August 1879 he married Elizabeth Ann Rowland ( 1846 – 1911 ), whom he had met on a visit to Paris, but he died a few days after returning from his honeymoon in Scotland.

In 1846, Elizabeth Barrett married Robert Browning.

Lord Londonderry married Lady Elizabeth Frances Charlotte Jocelyn, widow of Viscount Powerscourt and daughter of Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden, at the British Embassy in Paris on 2 May 1846.

His paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Day, was the grandniece of Jeremiah Day, who was Yale's president from 1817 through 1846.