* William Lewis Douglas ( 1845 – 1924 ), American politician

* Thomas Douglas Guest ( 1781 – 1845 ), British painter

In 1845 Leech illustrated St Giles and St James in Douglas William Jerrold's new Shilling Magazine, with plates more vigorous and accomplished than those in Bentley, but it is in subjects of a somewhat later date, and especially in those lightly etched and meant to be printed with colour, that we see the artist's best powers with the needle and acid.

William Lewis Douglas ( August 22, 1845 – September 17, 1924 ) was a U. S. political figure.

* William Lewis Douglas ( 1845 – 1924 ), governor of Massachusetts, 1905 – 1906

* Arthur MacArthur, Jr. ( 1845 – 1912 ), American military leader and father of Douglas MacArthur

The famous names in the ornithology of the Indian subcontinent during this era include Andrew Leith Adams ( 1827 – 1882 ), Edward Blyth ( 1810 – 1873 ), Edward Arthur Butler ( 1843 – 1916 ), Douglas Dewar ( 1875 – 1957 ), N. F. Frome ( 1899 – 1982 ), Hugh Whistler ( 1889 – 1943 ), H. H. Godwin-Austen ( 1834 – 1923 ), Col. W. H. Sykes ( 1790 – 1872 ), C. M. Inglis ( 1870 – 1954 ), Frank Ludlow ( 1885 – 1972 ), E. C. Stuart Baker ( 1864 – 1944 ), Henry Edwin Barnes ( 1848 – 1896 ), F. N. Betts ( 1906 – 1973 ), H. R. Baker, W. E. Brooks ( 1828 – 1899 ), Margaret Cockburn ( 1829 – 1928 ), James A. Murray, E. W. Oates ( 1845 – 1911 ), Ferdinand Stoliczka ( 1838 – 1874 ), Valentine Ball ( 1843 – 1894 ), W. T. Blanford ( 1832 – 1905 ), J. K. Stanford ( 1892 – 1971 ), Charles Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1923 ), Robert Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1877 ), C. H. T. Marshall ( 1841 – 1927 ), G. F. L. Marshall ( 1843 – 1934 ), R. S. P. Bates, James Franklin ( 1783 – 1834 ), Satya Churn Law, Arthur Edward Osmaston ( 1885 – 1961 ), Bertram Beresford Osmaston ( 1868 – 1961 ), Wardlaw Ramsay ( 1852 – 1921 ) and Samuel Tickell ( 1811 – 1875 ).

* Dunbar James Douglas, 6th Earl of Selkirk 29 May 1845 – 11 April 1885

In June 1845 75 members of the Auckland Militia under Lieutenant Figg became the first unit to support British Imperial troops in the Flagstaff War, serving as pioneers.

George Mifflin Dallas ( July 10, 1792December 31, 1864 ) was a U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania and the 11th Vice President of the United States ( 1845 – 1849 ), serving under President James K. Polk.

* Dallas Stoudenmire ( 1845 – 1882 ), successful City Marshal who tamed and controlled a remote, wild and violent town of El Paso, Texas ; became U. S. Marshal serving West Texas and New Mexico Territory just before his death

* Thomas Gamble Pitcher, ( 1824 – 1895 ), Union general in the Civil War and was 1845 graduate of the United States Military Academy later serving as Superintendent from 1866-1871.

* Thomas G. Pitcher, ( 1824 – 1895 ), Union general in the Civil War and was 1845 graduate of the United States Military Academy later serving as Superintendent from 1866-1871.

The first railroad line serving Fall River, The Fall River Branch Railroad, was incorporated in 1844 and opened in 1845.

* George Sykes ( 1806 – 1880 ), represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1843 to 1845, and was reelected in 1845 to fill a vacancy, serving until 1847.

In 1845, in recognition for his support at the previous Democratic convention, he entered Polk's cabinet as Secretary of the Navy, serving until 1846, when for a month he was acting Secretary of War.

Richard John Seddon ( 22 June 1845 – 10 June 1906 ), sometimes known as King Dick, is to date the longest serving Prime Minister of New Zealand.

After serving various curacies, he was presented in 1845 to the living of Broadwindsor, Dorset, which he held until 1886 During this entire period he continued to augment his linguistic knowledge ; he was able to preach in Georgian, on a visit which he paid to Nineveh in 1872.

In 1845 – according to the new law – a land-rabbinate, under Land-Rabbi Joseph Heilbut, was established in the city, serving 16 Jewish congregations, which were founded over the years in the whole Stade Region, with altogether 1, 250 Jews in 1864 ( highest number ever reached ).

He was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress, serving from March 4, 1843 to March 4, 1845.

In November, Fish was elected to the House of Representatives ; having defeated Democrat John McKeon and serving in the 28th Congress from New York's 6th District between 1843 and 1845.

He was elected as a Democrat from the newly formed 2nd district in Michigan to the 28th Congress, serving one term from March 4, 1843 to March 4, 1845.

In 1828 he was appointed Hofgärtner ( royal gardener ) in Vienna, later serving as director of the Imperial Gardens at Schönbrunn Palace ( 1845 ).

He then became a judge, serving as judge of the Court of Common Pleas and of the orphans ’ court of Bergen County, New Jersey from 1830 to 1845.

He then took office as State Auditor, serving until 1845, when the Whigs swept most of the state's Democrats out of office in the Election of 1844.

Public opinion finally made itself felt and in 1845 an Act of General Amnesty was passed and Dorr was released after serving twelve months of his term.

He was then elected as a Democrat to the 29th United States Congress, serving from March 4, 1845, to August 12, 1846, when he resigned from the House to participate in the Mexican-American War.

Fitzpatrick became Governor of Alabama in 1841, serving until 1845, and was appointed as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dixon H. Lewis and served from November 25, 1848, to November 30, 1849, when a successor was elected.

He held that post from 1825 to 1845, serving as Professor of Natural Theology and Geology from 1845 to his death in 1864.

A Democrat and North Carolina native, Moseley became the first Governor of the state of Florida, serving from 1845 until 1849 and leading the establishment of the state government.

* 1845 – The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.

The end of 1845 and the first months of 1846 were dominated by a battle in parliament between the free traders and the protectionists over the repeal of the Corn Laws, with the latter rallying around Disraeli and Lord George Bentinck.

This was the first galaxy recognised as having a spiral structure, this structure being first observed by Lord Rosse in 1845.

It came two years before an inter-club rugby game under the auspices of the Rugby Football Union would be played in England ; though it must be remembered that rugby had been codified 24 years before this in 1845 and played by many schools, universities and clubs even before the laws were first put on paper.

She did, however, influence the building of the Rainbow in 1845, the first extreme clipper ship.

Then in 1845 the Rainbow, 757 tons OM, the first extreme clipper was launched in New York.

* 1845 – Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Williamson Long in Jefferson, Georgia.

The first encyclopedia written originally in Swedish was Svenskt konversationslexikon ( 4 volumes, 1845 – 1851 ) by Per Gustaf Berg.

Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot ( September 11, 1845 – March 28, 1903 ), French telegraph engineer and inventor of the first means of digital communication Baudot code, was one of the pioneers of telecommunications.

Douglass ' best-known work is his first autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, published in 1845.

The first example of such a use comes from the work of the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff, who published in 1845 his Kirchhoff's circuit laws for calculating the voltage and current in electric circuits.

His first wife died in 1845, and on 16 August 1846, he married Olympe Pélissier, who had sat for Vernet for his picture of Judith and Holofernes.

The gardens were the first location in Ireland where the infection responsible for the 1845 – 1847 potato famine was identified.

In 1836 he sent his first picture to the exhibition of the Society of British Artists, and in 1845 he contributed a cartoon, An Allegory of Justice, to a competition for designs for the mural decoration of the new Palace of Westminster.

* 1845 – " The Raven " is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe

Count István Széchenyi was the first adequately to appreciate his capacity, when in 1845 the young man first began his public career as president of the society for the regulation of the waters of the Upper Tisza river.

In 1845, industrialist Peter Cooper ( who built the first American steam-powered locomotive, the Tom Thumb ), obtained a patent ( US Patent 4084 ) for powdered gelatin.

Its first machetes were sold in 1845 and became so famous that all good machetes were called " un Collins .".

These reforms included guarantees to ensure the Ottoman subjects perfect security for their lives, honour, and property ; the introduction of the first Ottoman paper banknotes ( 1840 ) and opening of the first post offices ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the finance system according to the French model ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the Civil and Criminal Code according to the French model ( 1840 ); the establishment of the Meclis-i Maarif-i Umumiye ( 1841 ) which was the prototype of the First Ottoman Parliament ( 1876 ); the reorganization of the army and a regular method of recruiting, levying the army, and fixing the duration of military service ( 1843 – 44 ); the adoption of an Ottoman national anthem and Ottoman national flag ( 1844 ); the first nationwide Ottoman census in 1844 ( only male citizens were counted ); the first national identity cards ( officially named the Mecidiye identity papers, or informally kafa kağıdı ( head paper ) documents, 1844 ); the institution of a Council of Public Instruction ( 1845 ) and the Ministry of Education ( Mekatib-i Umumiye Nezareti, 1847, which later became the Maarif Nezareti, 1857 ); the abolition of slavery and slave trade ( 1847 ); the establishment of the first modern universities ( darülfünun, 1848 ), academies ( 1848 ) and teacher schools ( darülmuallimin, 1848 ); establishment of the Ministry of Healthcare ( Tıbbiye Nezareti, 1850 ); the Commerce and Trade Code ( 1850 ); establishment of the Academy of Sciences ( Encümen-i Daniş, 1851 ); establishment of the Şirket-i Hayriye which operated the first steam-powered commuter ferries ( 1851 ); the first European style courts ( Meclis-i Ahkam-ı Adliye, 1853 ) and supreme judiciary council ( Meclis-i Ali-yi Tanzimat, 1853 ); establishment of the modern Municipality of Istanbul ( Şehremaneti, 1854 ) and the City Planning Council ( İntizam-ı Şehir Komisyonu, 1855 ); the abolition of the capitation ( Jizya ) tax on non-Muslims, with a regular method of establishing and collecting taxes ( 1856 ); non-Muslims were allowed to become soldiers ( 1856 ); various provisions for the better administration of the public service and advancement of commerce ; the establishment of the first telegraph networks ( 1847 – 1855 ) and railroads ( 1856 ); the replacement of guilds with factories ; the establishment of the Ottoman Central Bank ( originally established as the Bank-ı Osmanî in 1856, and later reorganized as the Bank-ı Osmanî-i Şahane in 1863 ) and the Ottoman Stock Exchange ( Dersaadet Tahvilat Borsası, established in 1866 ); the Land Code ( Arazi Kanunnamesi, 1857 ); permission for private sector publishers and printing firms with the Serbesti-i Kürşad Nizamnamesi ( 1857 ); establishment of the School of Economical and Political Sciences ( Mekteb-i Mülkiye, 1859 ); the Press and Journalism Regulation Code ( Matbuat Nizamnamesi, 1864 ); among others.