* Typee, 1846 first edition, scanned book via Internet Archive, other later editions available.

* Internet Archive Digital version of Compte rendu des Hyménoptères inédits Provenants du voyage entomologique de M. Ghiliani dans la Para en 1846. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Volume: 13, Series 2, Pages: 19-94 1853.

Mary Lenahan, of Elphin Street, Strokestown, an ancestor of Mary McAleese, was among 16 people recorded in the Strokestown Estate Famine Archive as having received grain meal gratuitously on 23 June 1846.

A Tithe Map of The Hundred of Crondall, dated 1846, is housed at the Hampshire County Archive in Winchester.

On the other hand, during rehearsals, workmen in the theater stopped what they were doing during Va, pensiero and applauded at the conclusion of this haunting melody while the growth of the " identification of Verdi's music with Italian nationalist politics " is judged to have begun in the summer 1846 in relation to a chorus from Ernani in which the name of one of its characters, " Carlo ", was changed to " Pio ", a reference to Pope Pius IX's grant of an amnesty to political prisoners.

On July 21, 1846, they sailed from New Orleans for the Texas coast.

On the night of May 9, 1846, Frémont received a courier, Lieutenant Archibald Gillespie, bringing messages from President James Polk.

On June 28, 1846, Berreyesa's father, José de los Reyes Berreyesa, an elderly man, crossed the San Francisco Bay and landed near the area known as San Quentin with two cousins, twin sons of Francisco de Haro, who were 19 years old, to visit his own sons in jail.

On August 17, 1846, Stockton declared California to be United States territory.

On 28 October 1846, with the passing of the Armed Constabulary Ordinance in 1846, a fresh call was made by Mr Donnelly of the Legislature to do away with the Militia because of its expense.

On 23 September 1846, the night following his receipt of the letter, Galle and his student Heinrich d ' Arrest discovered Neptune, exactly where Le Verrier had predicted.

On his return to London in 1846, he wrote a trilogy on the natural history of Jamaica including A Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica ( 1851 ), which was " written in a congenial style and firmly established his reputation both as a naturalist and a writer.

On July 24 or July 25, 1846, Thoreau ran into the local tax collector, Sam Staples, who asked him to pay six years of delinquent poll taxes.

On the third reading of Peel's Bill of Repeal ( Importation Act 1846 ) on 15 May, MPs voted 327 votes to 229 ( a majority of 98 ) to repeal the Corn Laws.

On June 15, 1846 the United States Senate approved the present boundary between the U. S. and Canada at the 49th Parallel.

On Saturday August 8, 1846 President Polk submitted to Congress a request for $ 2, 000, 000 in order to facilitate negotiations with Mexico over the final settlement of the war.

On the same day, 19 December 1846, in Dumfries Royal Infirmary, Scotland, a Dr. Scott used ether for a surgical procedure.

* 1846 – Grove publishes an account of the general theory of the conservation of energy in On The Correlation of Physical Forces

On 4 December 1845 an announcement appeared in The Times that the government had decided to recall Parliament during January 1846 to repeal the Corn Laws.

On 27 January 1846, Peel gave a three-hour speech saying that the Corn Laws would be abolished on 1 February 1849 after three years of gradual reductions of the tariff, leaving only a 1 shilling duty per quarter.

On the third reading of Peel's Bill of Repeal ( Importation Act 1846 ) on 15 May, MPs voted 327 votes to 229 ( a majority of 98 ) to repeal the Corn Laws.

On January 3, 1846, Representative Robert Winthrop ridiculed the concept in Congress, saying " I suppose the right of a manifest destiny to spread will not be admitted to exist in any nation except the universal Yankee nation ".

On May 10, 1846, the Frémont group completely destroyed it.

On April 11, 1846, Limestone County was formed from Robertson County.

On August 18, 1846, the county was organized.

On April 11, 1846, the First Texas Legislature established Denton County.

On June 7, 1846, a Crawford County man named James Fields fell under the influence of alcohol.

On July 18, 1846, the United States ' first plank road opened in North Syracuse, primarily for salt transportation.

This system developed gradually from a more presbyterian polity ( Joseph Smith's original title in 1830 was " First Elder ") for pragmatic and doctrinal reasons, reaching a full episcopacy during the Nauvoo period ( 1839 – 1846 ).

* 1846 – First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon – British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war

* 1846 – First painless surgery with general anaesthetic

In 1846, the " school preparatory to the University " opened in the basement of the First Baptist Church in Lewisburg.

The public buildings in the National Register Historic District include the First Congregational Church ( 1818 ,) the Old Town Hall ( 1846 ,) the United Methodist Church, the St. Paul's Episcopal Church ( 1785 ,) and the North Congregational Church ( 1816.

In July 1846 the organization of the First Congregational Church of Winnebago met at Westfield.

James Thompson, who donated the town clock that is located in the steeple of the First Congregational Church, is said to have proposed the name " Almont " in 1846 to honor the Mexican general, Juan Almonte.

The First Presbyterian Church was designed in 1846 by Robert Walker, a noted architect from Charleston, but construction wasn ’ t begun until several years later and wasn ’ t completed until after the Civil War.

Gurkhas served as troops of the East India Company in the Pindaree War of 1817, in Bharatpur in 1826, and the First and Second Sikh Wars in 1846 and 1848.

Gurkhas served as troops under contract to the East India Company in the Pindaree War of 1817, in Bharatpur in 1826 and the First and Second Anglo-Sikh Wars in 1846 and 1848.

* 1846 – First secretary of the Smithsonian Institution until 1878

In 1846 he again became First Lord of the Admiralty, this time under Lord John Russell.

* William Henry Clinton ( 1769 – 1846 ), British general from prominent military family ; served in French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars as well as First Miguelist War

The Flagstaff War – also known as Hone Heke's Rebellion, the Northern War and the First Māori War – was fought between 11 March 1845 and 11 January 1846 in and around the Bay of Islands, New Zealand.

When Peel's cabinet was reconstituted in 1846 Ellenhorough became First Lord of the Admiralty.

First described by John Edward Gray in 1846, it is the smallest of the baleen whales, ranging between and in length and 3, 000 and 3, 500 kg in mass.

Besides operas, Méhul composed a number of songs for the festivals of the republic ( often commissioned by the emperor Napoleon ), cantatas, and five symphonies in the years 1797 and 1808 to 1810. The First Symphony was revived in one of Felix Mendelssohn's concerts with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in 1838 and 1846 to an audience including Robert Schumann, who was impressed by the piece.

His Army of the West ( 1846 ) consisted of 1600 men in the volunteer First and Second Regiments of Fort Leavenworth, Missouri Mounted Cavalry regiment under Alexander Doniphan ; an artillery and infantry battalion ; 300 of Kearny's 1st U. S. Dragoons ( light cavalry ) and about 500 members of the Mormon Battalion.

* Sir Hugh Gough, victor at the Battle of Chinkiang, in the Gwalior Campaign and in the First Anglo-Sikh War, was created Baron Gough, of ChingKangFoo in China and of Maharajpore and the Sutlej in the East Indies in 1846, and following the Battle of Gujrat was further created Viscount Gough, of Goojerat in the Punjab and of the City of Limerick in 1849.

* Sir Henry Hardinge, who concluded the Treaty of Lahore that ended the First Anglo-Sikh War, was created Viscount Hardinge, of Lahore and of King's Newton in the County of Derby in 1846.

In 1845, the First Anglo-Sikh War broke out, and Gulab Singh " contrived to hold himself aloof till the battle of Sobraon ( 1846 ), when he appeared as a useful mediator and the trusted advisor of Sir Henry Lawrence.

In 1835 he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty under Lord Melbourne, a post he held until 1841, and later served as Lord Privy Seal under Lord John Russell from 1846 to 1852.

In 1846 Lane joined the First Regiment, Texas Mounted Riflemen, as a first lieutenant to fight in the Mexican-American War.

He was a Tory politician and served as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland from 1834 to 1835 and as First Lord of the Admiralty ( with a seat in the cabinet ) from 1841 to 1846.