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.

A rigid belief in laissez-faire guided the government response in 1846 – 1849 to the Great Famine in Ireland, during which an estimated 1. 5 million people died.

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 ).

He was Secretary of State for War and the Colonies between 1834 and 1835 and again Foreign Secretary between 1841 and 1846 under Sir Robert Peel. It was during his second stint as Foreign Secretary that he settled two disagreements with the US – the Northeast Boundary dispute by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty ( 1842 ), and the Oregon dispute by the Oregon Treaty of 1846.

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.

Following an unrealized uprising in 1846, and the more substantial but still unsuccessul uprising of 1848 ( during the Spring of Nations ), the Grand Duchy was replaced by the Province of Posen.

Carson was a courier and scout during the Mexican-American war from 1846 to 1848, celebrated for his rescue mission after the Battle of San Pasqual and his coast-to-coast journey from California to deliver news of the war to the U. S. government in Washington, D. C ..

San Pasqual Battlefield State Historic Park, located near Escondido, California, is a California State Park which honors the memory of the participants from both the United States and Mexico, including Kit Carson, who contested the Battle of San Pasqual on December 5 – 6, 1846 during the Mexican-American War.

The Kashmiri Pandits, the only Hindus of the Kashmir valley, who had stably constituted approximately 4 to 5 % of the population of the valley during Dogra rule ( 1846 – 1947 ), and 20 % of whom had left the Kashmir valley by 1950, began to leave in much greater numbers in the 1990s.

File: White House 1846. jpg | Earliest known photograph of the White House, taken c. 1846 by John Plumbe during the administration of James K. Polk.

Pacini's successes during this time period include La fidanzata corsa ( Naples, 1842 ), Maria, regina d ' Inghilterra ( Palermo, 1843 ), Medea ( Palermo, 1843 with several later revisions, the last of which was in Naples in 1853 ), Lorenzino de ' Medici ( Venice, 1845 ), Bondelmonte ( Florence, 1845 ), Stella di Napoli ( Naples, 1845 ) and La regina di Cipro ( Turin, 1846 ).

Following an unrealized uprising in 1846, and the more substantial but still unsuccessul uprising of 1848 ( during the Spring of Nations ), the Grand Duchy was replaced by the Province of Posen.

Many steamboats from the Ohio and Mississippi rivers were requisitioned by the US Government and moved to the Rio Grande during the Mexican War in 1846.

The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills, passed in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War ( 1846 – 1848 ).

A major epidemic occurred in Ireland between 1816 – 19, and again in the late 1830s, and yet another major typhus epidemic occurred during the Great Irish Famine between 1846 and 1849.

The U. S. Army under Stephen Kearny occupied the territory in 1846 during the Mexican-American War and Mexico recognized its loss to the United States in 1848 with the Mexican Cession in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

* General Sir William Henry Clinton ( 1769 – 1846 ), British general during the Napoleonic Wars

John C. Frémont and his " California Battalion " used the Mission as a base of operations during their war with Mexico in 1846 ( see Bear Flag Revolt ).

Since many MPs were heavy investors in such schemes, it was rare for a Bill to not pass during the peak of the Mania in 1846, although Parliament did reject schemes that were blatantly misleading or impossible to construct – at the Mania's peak there were several schemes floated for ' direct ' railways which ran in vast, straight lines across swathes of countryside that would have been difficult to construct and nearly impossible for the locomotives of the day to work on.

Dickens himself returned to the tale time and again during his life to tweak the phrasing and punctuation, and capitalized on the success of the book by annually publishing other Christmas stories in 1844, 1845, 1846, and 1848.

The course of political history in the Pacific Northwest saw the spine of the Cascade Range being proposed as a boundary settlement during the Oregon Dispute of 1846.

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.

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

* 1846 – Mexican – American War: The Battle of Palo Alto – Zachary Taylor defeats a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande in the first major battle of the war.

* 1846 – Mexican-American War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States.

* 1846 – Mexican-American War: The United States declares war on Mexico.

Wolof ( peuple ) | Wolof of Waalo, in " war costume " ( 1846 )

war: 1846

The war between Texas and Mexico did not truly come to an end until the Mexican-American War of 1846.

By Himself, published by D. Appleton & Co., in two volumes, began with the year 1846 ( when the Mexican War began ) and ended with a chapter about the " military lessons of the war " ( 1875 edition: Volume I ;

Mexico had warned all along that it would go to war if Texas joined the Union ; war broke out in 1846.

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.

After a war scare with the United Kingdom, the Oregon boundary dispute was settled in the 1846 Oregon Treaty, partitioning the region along the 49th parallel and resolving most but not all of the border disputes ( see Pig War ).

) When Polk moved to terminate the joint occupation agreement, the British finally agreed to divide the region along the 49th parallel in early 1846, keeping the lower Columbia basin as part of the United States, and the dispute was settled by the Oregon Treaty of 1846, which the administration was able to sell to congress because the United States was about to begin the Mexican-American war, and the president and others argued it would be foolish to also fight the British Empire.

* 1846, May 13-The United States Congress officially declares war on Mexico.

* 1846, May 13-The United States Congress officially declares war on Mexico.

This was the beginning of the " gauge war " and led to the appointment by Parliament of a Gauge Commission, which reported in 1846 in favour of standard gauge.

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.

The commission purchased a 60-acre tract of Daniel Monroe's headright on the Little River in 1846 and named the new community Cameron after Ewen Cameron, a Scot highlander prominent in the Texas Revolution and a member of the Mier Expedition during the war with Mexico.

In July 1845, U. S. troops commanded by General Zachary Taylor set up camp there in preparation for war with Mexico, where they remained until March 1846.

The U. S., much larger and more powerful, did annex Texas in 1845 and war broke out in 1846 over boundary issues.