In 1846, U. S. Army Captain John C. Fremont and his soldiers stopped at the rancho on their way south to Santa Barbara and Los Angeles.

In 1846, General Stephen W. Kearny and the " Army of the West " made camp on the rancho on their way to the Battle of San Pasqual.

During the 1846 Bear Flag Revolt, the forces of Captain John C. Frémont captured an Indian bearing a message from Jose Jesus Pico ( the San Luis Obispo Justice of the Peace ) at the rancho and ordered his execution.

Margaret McDowell's first husband, James McDowell, settled and developed of land on a rancho he purchased from John Schwartz in 1846.

The rancho was formally divided in 1846, with Governor Pío Pico granting Rancho de los Palos Verdes to José Loreto and Juan Capistrano Sepulveda.

Robert Todd Lincoln was born in 1843 and Edward Baker Lincoln ( Eddie ) in 1846.

In 1846, Lincoln was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he served one two-year term.

Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.

In 1846 nitrocellulose ( also known as guncotton ) was discovered, and the high explosive nitroglycerin was discovered at much the same time.

The current southern border of British Columbia was established by the 1846 Oregon Treaty, although its history is tied with lands as far south as California.

It was started in 1846 and is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the United States.

The original Boston Herald was founded in 1846 by a group of Boston printers jointly under the name of John A. French & Company.

In January 1846, a peculiar skull was taken from the banks of Murrumbidgee River near Balranald, New South Wales.

Work was also progressing on the northern half of the West Wing ( The Egyptian Sculpture Gallery ) 1826 – 1831, with Montagu House demolished in 1842 to make room for the final part of the West Wing, completed in 1846, and the South Wing with its great colonnade, initiated in 1843 and completed in 1847, when the Front Hall and Great Staircase were opened to the public.

In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the Museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round Reading Room 1854 – 1857 ; at in diameter it was then the second widest dome in the world, the Pantheon in Rome being slightly wider.

Bolventor parish was established in 1846 ( before that date the village was in St Neot parish ) but has now been merged with Altarnun.

While the first telegraph company was the Toronto, Hamilton and Niagara Electro-Magnetic Telegraph Company, founded in 1846, it was the Montreal Telegraph Company, controlled by Hugh Allan and founded a year later, that dominated in Canada during the technology's early years.

The planet Neptune was discovered in Capricornus by German astronomer Johann Galle, near Deneb Algedi ( δ Capricorni ) on September 23, 1846, which is appropriate as Capricornus can be seen best from Europe at 4: 00am in September.

Cambridge was incorporated as a city in 1846.

He was the elder of the two children of John Calvin Coolidge, Sr. ( 1845 – 1926 ) and Victoria Josephine Moor ( 1846 – 1885 ).

Robert Peel was able to reconcile the new industrial class to the Tory landed class by persuading the latter to accept the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846.

The first census was carried out in 1846 then it is carried out every 10 years.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( Strangite ) uses the 1846 edition that was published in Nauvoo, Illinois ; this version is virtually identical to the 1844 edition.

** Jan Tyssowski was Dictator from 24 February 1846-2 March 1846.

It was finally published in the October – November 1846 issue of the Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées.

The explorer Charles Sturt, who visited the region from 1844 – 1846, was the first European to see the desert, but it was not until 1936 that Ted Colson became the first white person to cross it in its entirety.

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.

* 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, General Winfield Scott visited the city, and let his hosts know that he desired an evening of chess with a strong local player.

He visited it four times in 1841-8 ; and his first map ( 1843 – 1846 ), together with his Karte des osmanischen Reiches in Asien ( 1844 and 1869 ), formed the highest authority for the geography of the region.

Curtis died in 1843 and both mills stood idle until John Bower arrived in 1846, with his family, after having visited the area the year before.

In 1846, Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert visited Arundel Castle for a few days.

In 1846, Isaac Van Woert swore in an affidavit to a justice of the peace in Ann Arbor that he had been visited by the ghost of Martha Mullholland, who told him she had been murdered by a doctor at the behest of her brother-in-law, James Mullholland, to keep her from returning to Canada, and who had committed another murder and dumped the body in Frains Lake.

President Ulysses S. Grant visited this track as a young man before it closed in 1846.

Czerny remained in Vienna for most of his life, only leaving three times ( he visited Leipzig in 1836, Paris and London in 1837, and Lombardy in 1846 ).

In 1846, he visited Spain, wishing to witness the wedding of Isabella II and the Duke of Cádiz, but he was also curious to assess developments in Spanish culture.

In 1843 he visited Devonshire, staying at Ashburton ; in 1846 the English Lake District ; and in 1847, for the first time, North Wales, which, especially the country around Betws-Y-Coed and Dolgelly, became his favourite working-ground.

Early in 1846, Fallon stayed in Santa Cruz after Frémont visited the area.

Brialmont in 1846 visited Germany where he took notice of the German way of construction.

In 1846, Henry David Thoreau visited the Moosehead Lake region, and the mountain's geological formation, Indian relics and traditions deeply interested him.

Sir Moses Montefiore, after aiding the Damascus Jews by obtaining, in an interview with the Sultan at Constantinople, a firman repudiating the blood accusation, visited Russia in 1846 to intercede for his coreligionists there.

In 1842 he visited Copenhagen, where he obtained from King Christian VIII a small travelling studentship, which enabled him to spend some time in Paris and two years ( 1844 – 1846 ) in Italy.

In the summer of 1846, she met Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia when he visited Altenburg.

Florence Nightingale, then a crusading English health care reformer, visited Kaiserwerth in 1846 and came away favorably impressed.

It became a popular attraction for visitors, and in 1846 the British royal family visited the castle ; arriving on their yacht the Victoria and Albert up the River Fowey, the royal party toured the ruins.

* Candido José da Costa Cardoso ( visited Lake Malawi known as Lake Nyasa or Lake Niassa in 1846 )

Santa Maria folks can still claim and be proud of their community despite the vicissitudes that marred her progress, for in 1846, the town was visited by Governor General Narciso Claveria y Zaldua and General Primo de Rivera in 1879.

Governor General Claveria visited the town in 1846, possibly the first Spanish governor general to visit it.

On his third expedition to the west, John C. Fremont recorded in his journal that in the spring of 1846 he visited and stayed at the Lassen ranch, noting that Lassen had brought into cultivation wheat, grapes and cotton.