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

The Oregon Question was settled in 1846 when the United States and Great Britain agreed to a Canadian – U. S. boundary at the 49th parallel.

* J. Enoch Thompson ( 1846 – 1932 ), Canadian politician, diplomat, writer, and businessman

Anna Haining Bates, born Anna Haining Swan ( August 6, 1846 – August 5, 1888 ), was a Canadian from Mill Brook, New Annan, ( near present-day Tatamagouche ), Colchester County, Nova Scotia, famed for her great height, believed to be 2. 27 m ( 7 ' 5½ ") at the peak of her stature.

Faced with the ending of British imperial preference when the British Corn Laws ( tariffs on food imported into Britain ) were repealed in 1846, the Canadian business community, based in Montreal, looked south.

James Evans ( January 18, 1801 – November 23, 1846 ) was a Canadian Methodist missionary and amateur linguist.

The first Maid of the Mist was launched in 1846 as a ferry service between the Canadian and American sides, pre-dating by two years the construction of the first Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge at the site.

* John Howatt Bell ( 1846 – 1929 ), Canadian politician

* John McLean ( Canadian politician ) ( 1846 – 1936 ), Canadian politician from Prince Edward Island

* Patrick Blake ( 1846 – 1909 ), a Canadian politician

* George Wellesley Hamilton ( 1846 – 1915 ) Canadian politician

* William Hemmings Cook ( 1768 – 1846 ), Canadian fur trader and politician

* Charles Carter Drury ( 1846 – 1914 ), Canadian Royal Navy admiral

On his return he obtained his commission as lieutenant, and from 1838 to 1839 served on the Canadian lakes, being subsequently attached to the North American and West Indian naval stations, where he remained till 1846.

Allan Studholme ( 8 December 1846 – 28 July 1919 ) was a Canadian trade unionist and politician.

* Thomas George Roddick ( 1846 – 1923 ), Canadian surgeon, medical administrator, and politician

On June 15, 1846, Britain ceded its claims to the lands south of the 49th parallel, and the U. S. ceded its claims to the north of the same line, in the present day Canadian border, in the Oregon Treaty.

Charles Constantine ( 13 November 1846 – 5 May 1912 ) was a Canadian North-West Mounted Police officer and superintendent, from Bradford, Yorkshire.

Pedogenesis ( from the Greek: ' pedo-or pedon ' meaning ' soil, earth ' and genesis meaning ' origin, birth ') is the science and study of the processes that lead to the formation of soil ( soil evolution ) and first explored by the Russian geologist Vasily Dokuchaev ( 1846 – 1903 ), the so called grandfather of soil science, who determined that soil formed over time as a consequence of climatic, mineral and biological processes which he demonstrated using the soil forming equation:

William Lonsdale ( 9 September 1794, Bath – 11 November 1871, Bristol ), English geologist and palaeontologist, won the Wollaston medal in 1846 for his research on the various kinds of fossil corals.

Henry Duncan DD ( 8 October 1774 – 12 February 1846 ), founder of savings banks, geologist and social reformer.

* William Henry Holmes ( 1846 – 1933 ), American anthropologist, archaeologist, geologist and museum director

William Henry Holmes ( December 1, 1846 – April 20, 1933 ) was an American anthropologist, archaeologist, geologist and museum director.

* Ignacy Domeyko-a Polish geologist and mineralogist, a geological map of Chile, describing the Jurassic rock formations, and discovered deposits of a rare mineral ( 1846 )

Abraham Gesner first distilled kerosene from bituminous coal and oil shale experimentally in 1846.

* 1846 – Edward Baker Lincoln, American son of Abraham Lincoln ( d. 1850 )

His Slavery Discussed in Occasional Essays from 1833 to 1846 ( 1846 ) exercised considerable influence upon Abraham Lincoln, and in this book appears the sentence, which, as rephrased by Lincoln, was widely quoted: " If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong — if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong — nothing is wrong.

In 1846 Abraham Pineo Gesner invented a substitute for whale oil for lighting, distilled from coal.

He lost against Abraham Lincoln for a United States Congress seat in 1846.

Twice a member of the Illinois legislature, he ran for the United States Congress in 1846, but was defeated by the Springfield Whig, Abraham Lincoln.

In 1853 Jan Zeh, together with his associate Łukasiewicz, was the first in the world to distill clear kerosene from seep oil, Canada's Abraham Gesner having first refined kerosene from coal in 1846.

* Edward Baker Lincoln ( 1846 – 1850 ), son of Abraham Lincoln, named after Edward Dickinson Baker

* Abraham Pineo Gesner, produced kerosene from coal, 1846

* Abraham Brewster: 2 February 1846 – June 1846

He amused the comtesse de Vaux's 200 guests with a parody of Félicien David's currently fashionable Le désert, and in April 1846 gave a concert at which seven operatic items of his own composition were premiered before an audience that included leading music critics.

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.

But it is also notable ( and not included in some of the foregoing discussion references ) that Adams himself publicly acknowledged Le Verrier's priority and credit ( not forgetting to mention the role of Galle ) in the paper that he gave ' On the Perturbations of Uranus ' to the Royal Astronomical Society in November 1846 :-

In 1846 he was appointed professor at Marburg, and though this small university offered little scope for his activities as a teacher, a seat in the Hessian Landtag gave him his first experience of politics.

In 1846 he entered the legislature as deputy for the Maine-et-Loire, and with many other Catholics he gave real or pretended support to the revolution of 1848.

Britain gave up Oregon south of the 49th parallel, which had been part of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia District, under the Oregon Treaty of 1846.

Louise actually gave birth to nine children — Bernadette, Jean ( born and died 1845 ), Toinette ( 1846 – 1892 ), Jean-Marie ( 1848 – 1851 ), Jean-Marie ( 1851 – 1919 ), Justin ( 1855 – 1865 ), Pierre ( 1859 – 1931 ), Jean ( born and died 1864 ), and a baby girl named Louise who died soon after her birth ( 1866 ).

* The Golden Gate ( the strait that connects the Pacific Ocean to San Francisco Bay ), was named on 1 July 1846 by explorer John C. Frémont who wrote, " To this Gate I gave the name of Chrysopylae, or Golden Gate ; for the same reasons that the harbor of Byzantium was called Chrysoceras, or Golden Horn.

The Italian writer Edmondo De Amicis ( 1846 – 1908 ) gave a vivid description of a passage through the Subway in his Jottings about London:

In 1846 he began to travel with this panorama in Europe, Asia and Africa and even gave Queen Victoria a private viewing.

The young couple had long periods of separation, first as Jefferson Davis gave campaign speeches and " politicked " ( or campaigned ) for himself and for other Democratic candidates in the elections of 1846.

Returning home a first lieutenant, Halleck gave a series of twelve lectures at the Lowell Institute in Boston that were subsequently published in 1846 as Elements of Military Art and Science.

On 30 May 1846 she gave Muñoz a second title, marqués de San Agustín.

Her first novel, Retribution, a serial for the National Era, published in book form in 1846, was so well received that she gave up teaching and became a regular contributor to various periodicals, especially the New York Ledger.

Between 1820 and 1846, the Russian Empire allocated land to the Gagauz and gave them financial incentives to settle in Bessarabia in the settlements vacated by the Nogai tribes.

In 1846 he played a number of games against Marmaduke Wyvill in Rome, who was one of the finest players in England, and it has been reported that Dubois won 55-26 when no odds were given by either side but lost 39-30 when he gave odds of a pawn plus a move to his opponent.

Amalie Skram ( 1846 – 1905 ) also gave voice to a woman's point of view with her naturalist writing.

In 1846 he gave up his successful school to become a private tutor and also started lecturing on various scientific subjects-a career he continued for the rest of his life.

We shall not go far wrong if we include in the list Hyacinthe Morel ( 1756 – 1829 ), of Avignon, whose collection of poems, Lou Saboulet, has been republished by Frédéric Mistral ; Louis Aubanel ( 178 ~- 1842 ), of Nîmes, the successful translator of Anacreon's Odes ; Auguste Tandon, the troubadour of Montpellier, who wrote Fables, contes et autres pièces en vers ( 1800 ); Fabre d ' Olivet, the versatile littérateur who in 1803 published Le Troubadour: Poésies occitaniques, which, in order to secure their success, he gave out as the work of some medieval poet Diou-loufet ( 1771 – 1840 ), who wrote a didactic poem, in the manner of Virgil, relating to silkworm-breeding ( Leis magnans ); Jacques Azais ( 1778 – 1856 ), author of satires, fables, & c .; d ' Astros ( 1780 – 1863 ), a writer of fables in La Fontaine's manner ; Castil-Blaze, who found time, amidst his musical pursuits, to compose Provençal poems, intended to be set to music ; the Marquis de Fare-Alais ( 1791 – 1846 ), author of some light satirical tales ( Las Castagnados ).

However all three railways felt themselves disadvantaged by the arrangement and in October 1844 the SER gave notice six months notice of withdrawal, which was later extended until 31 January 1846.

Dr Thomas continued his studies of the Bible and in 1846 travelled to New York where he gave a series of lectures covering thirty doctrinal subjects that later formed part of his book Elpis Israel ( The Hope of Israel ).

In March 1845 John Gray was appointed as Locomotive Superintendent of the L & BR and in April the company gave notice of withdrawal from the arrangement from January 1846, when the pooled locomotives were divided between the companies ..

The initial assistance he gave in organising the newly-formed Corps of Guides in December 1846 had been one of Sir Henry Lawrence's projects in which Hodson excelled.

After the First Anglo-Sikh War in 1846, the British gave Kashmir and the title of ' Maharaja ' to Gulab Singh-the chief minister-as a reward for his treachery against the Sikhs.