Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 – 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 – 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ).

Polk then made this the casus belli, and in a message to Congress on May 11, 1846, he stated that Mexico had " invaded our territory and shed American blood upon the American soil.

In 1846, he attracted attention by his bitter articles against the government in Lajos Kossuth's paper, the Pesti Hírlap, and was returned as one of the Radical candidates to the diet of 1848, where his generous, impulsive nature made him one of the most thorough-going of the patriots.

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.

In the end, the union between Panama and the Republic of New Granada ( under its various names United States of Colombia 1863 – 1886 and the Republic of Colombia since 1886 ) was made possible by the active participation of U. S. A. under the 1846 Bidlack Mallarino treaty until 1903.

A classic definition of a short story is that one should be able to read it in one sitting, a point most notably made in Edgar Allan Poe's essay " The Philosophy of Composition " ( 1846 ).

Published in 1846, Typee was Melville's first book, and made him one of the best-known American authors overnight.

The regard in which she was held by the geological community was shown in 1846 when, upon learning of her cancer diagnosis, the Geological Society raised money from its members to help with her expenses and the council of the newly created Dorset County Museum made her an honorary member.

Ingres ' pupil Théodore Chassériau ( 1819 – 1856 ) had already achieved success with his nude The Toilette of Esther ( 1841, Louvre ) and equestrian portrait of Ali-Ben-Hamet, Caliph of Constantine and Chief of the Haractas, Followed by his Escort ( 1846 ) before he first visited the East, but in later decades the steamship made travel much easier and increasing numbers of artists traveled to the Middle East and beyond, painting a wide range of Oriental scenes.

This changed in 1846 when Samuel Phillippe made the first six strips of Calcutta cane.

In 1846 the Caddo along with several other tribes signed a treaty that made the Caddo a protectorate of the US and established framework of a legal system between the Caddo and the US.

In 1845, Governor Pío Pico declared the Mission buildings for sale and, in 1846, made Mission San Fernando Rey de España his headquarters as Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando.

The other two translations were made by Mrs. Sabine under the superintendence of her husband Col. Edward Sabine ( 4 volumes 1846 – 1858 ), and by Miss E. C.

Between 1836 and 1846, during the era when California was a province of independent Mexico, the following 15 land grants were made in Contra Costa County.

Between 1843 and 1846, during the era when California was a province of independent Mexico, five Mexican land grants were made in what became San Joaquin County: Campo de los Franceses, Pescadero ( Grimes ), Pescadero ( Pico ), Sanjon de los Moquelumnes and Thompson.

In a map he made in 1846, the town was 38 to in size.

This was based upon claim made by Jonathan Floyd, Trustee Adair County Commissioners, on December 25, 1846 and recorded at the Land Office in Boonville Missouri for the establishment of the County Seat.

In 1846, Amwell was split into East and West Amwell and in 1954 a final adjustment was made to the two township's boundary lines.

The Town of Ischua was made in 1846 from part of Hinsdale.

The Town of Ischua was made in 1846 from a division of the Town of Hinsdale.

Over the course of the war, the town became known for producing guns, and the Committee of Safety for York County contracted with area gunsmiths to supply the Continental Army ; guns made in Lewisberry were in use by the US Army as late as the Siege of Veracruz during the Mexican – American War of 1846.

A year before the first LDS migration, in the spring of 1846, he departed west with his extended family joining other converts that made up the Mississippi Company led by John Brown.

He likewise made himself the authority on the Oregon boundary dispute, with the result that in 1846 he was sent as minister plenipotentiary to London, where he lived in constant companionship with the historian Macaulay and the poet Hallam.

Both sides of the seal of Stephen, from an engraving made in 1846

* In March 2011 Hatfield House featured as part of the 20 episode long series of the BBC's Royal Upstairs Downstairs which followed the royal tour of Queen Victoria in 1846 who visited the home.

In 1846 Lindblad undertook a national tour with the noted Lund Quartet.

He worked on the score during his concert tour of 1845, adding his own text for " Nature immense, impénétrable et fière "— Faust's climactic invocation of all nature — and incorporating the Rákóczi March, which had been a thunderous success at a concert in Pest, Hungary, 15 February 1846.

In 1846, he took 350 people from Leicester on a tour of Scotland, however his lack of commercial ability led him to bankruptcy.

In 1846 he had been invited by Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin to the Société d ' Études du Canal de Suez and took part in the exploration tour to the isthmus of Suez in 1847.

In 1845 she set out to Scandinavia and Iceland, describing her tour in two volumes, Reise nach dem skandinavischen Norden und der Insel Island (“ Trip to the Scandinavian North and the island of Iceland ,” Pest, 1846 ; English translation: Journey to Iceland, Sweden, and Norway, London, 1852 ).

He became Fleet Surgeon with the Pacific Squadron in 1844 and, upon completion of his tour in 1846, was about to return to the United States when relations between that country and Mexico became decidedly strained.

Near this factory, towards Santo Amaro a textile factory, Companhia de Fiação de Tecidos Lisbonense, was also constructed ( 1846 – 1855 ).

** Danish East India Company, founded in 1616 and ceased 1846

Woodbridge has its own brass band, the Excelsior, which was formed in 1846 and is the oldest community brass band in East Anglia.

West Amwell Township was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 6, 1846, when Amwell Township was split, also creating East Amwell Township at the same time.

Rawlinson's published works include four volumes of cuneiform inscriptions, published under his direction between 1870 and 1884 by the trustees of the British Museum ; The Persian Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun ( 1846 – 51 ) and Outline of the History of Assyria ( 1852 ), both reprinted from the Asiatic Society's journals ; A Commentary on the Cuneiform Inscriptions of Babylon and Assyria ( 1850 ); Notes on the Early History of Babylonia ( 1854 ); and England and Russia in the East ( 1875 ).

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.

Norton graduated from Harvard in 1846, and started in business with an East Indian trading firm in Boston, travelling to India in 1849.

This line was promoted by the Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway in August 1846, but was completed by the East Lancashire Railway.

Müller moved to England in 1846 in order to study Sanskrit texts in the collection of the East India Company.

* 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.

The East Sussex coast line from Brighton to Lewes and St Leonards-on-Sea, together with running powers over the SER line to Hastings, was opened in 1846 one month before the amalgamation.

In 1846 The L & BR and the L & CR amalgamated to form the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway ( LB & SCR ), and the two stations were renamed East Croydon and West Croydon to avoid confusion.

After being included in United States territory in 1846 upon settlement of the northern boundary with Canada, Fort Hall developed as an important station for emigrants through the 1850s on the Oregon Trail ; it was located at the end of the common 500-mile stretch from the East shared by the three far west emigrant trails.

* Victoria Park, East London ( from 1842, opened 1846 ).

The First Anglo-Sikh War was fought between the Sikh Empire and the British East India Company between 1845 and 1846.

* The Frewen Mausoleum at St Mary's Church, Northiam, East Sussex ( 1846 )

In the metalliferous mines of Cornwall, some of the worst accidents were at East Wheal Rose in 1846, where 39 workers were killed by a sudden flood ; at Levant mine in 1919, where 31 were killed and many injured in a failure of the man engine ; 12 killed at Wheal Agar in 1883 when a cage fell down a shaft ; and seven killed at Dolcoath mine in 1893 when a large stull collapsed.

Established in 1844, its network grew from the original Edinburgh-Berwick-upon-Tweed line, ( completed in 1846 ) to serve the East of Scotland.

The East Lancashire Railway ( later L & YR ) built the Burnley to Preston line, Burnley to Accrington 18 September 1848, Accrington to Blackburn 19 June 1848, and the Blackburn to Preston section on 1 June 1846.

In 1846, on vacating this appointment, he was made a K. C. B., and thenceforward was chiefly concerned with the East India Company's military academy at Addiscombe.

General Sir Henry Robert Ferguson Davie, 1st Baronet ( 1797 – 30 November 1885 ), known as Henry Ferguson until 1846, was Liberal Member of Parliament for Haddington in East Lothian, Scotland, 1847 to 1878 and an army officer.