Much attention was attracted by a translation of the maqamat of Al-Hariri of Basra ( Hariris Makamen ) in 1826, Nal und Damajanti, an Indian tale, in 1828, Rostem und Suhrab, eine Heldengeschichte ( Rostem and Suhrab, a Story of Heroes ) in 1830, and Hamasa, oder die ältesten arabischen Volkslieder ( Hamasa, or the Oldest Arabian Folk Songs ) in 1846.

The settlement of the Oregon boundary dispute with Britain in 1846, the conclusion of the Mexican American War in 1848, and the California Gold Rush in 1849 and other gold and silver strikes rapidly attracted increased emigrant traffic west.

In 1846, attracted by the American Colonization Society, Roye immigrated to Liberia and set up business as a merchant.

He studied piano first with his mother, and while the family was in Berlin between 1844 and 1846, he studied piano with Theodor Kullak and harmony and counterpoint with Siegfried Dehn ; during this time both he and his brother Anton attracted the interest and support of Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer.

He became at an early period of his life a contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and other periodicals, and in 1846 published a life of David Hume, which attracted considerable attention, and was followed by Lives of Lord Lovat and Lord President Forbes.

In 1844 he was ordained deacon and priest in the Church of England, and held curacies at Aston Rowant and St Thomas's, Oxford ; but being naturally attracted to the Episcopal Church of his native land, then recovering from long depression, he removed in 1846 to Stonehaven, the chief town of Kincardineshire.

His business capacity attracted the attention of a leading local colliery owner, and he was appointed manager of the Marley Hill colliery in which he became a partner in 1846.

After 1845, he attracted the interest of Charles Baudelaire with his painting Flower of the Fields that allowed him to access to the Salon of 1846.

However, after the outbreak of the Mexican-American War in April 1846 diverted U. S. attention and military resources, a compromise was reached in the ongoing negotiations in Washington, D. C., and the matter was settled by the Polk administration ( to the dismay of its own party's militant hardliners ) to avoid a two-war situation and the third war with the formidable military strength of Great Britain in less than 70 years.

In 1846, the town came to public attention after an enquiry exposed the conditions in its workhouse.

As president of the Society of Antiquaries ( from 1846 onwards ), he called attention in England to the need of supporting the excavations at Troy.

From 1846 his attention focused upon the Tertiary deposits of the London Basin, which he subsequently classified and then correlated with Tertiary deposits throughout England, France and Belgium.

He therefore confined his attention to several practical arts and trades ; and to these labors we owe his Beiträge zur Geschichte der Erfindungen ( 1780-1805 ), translated into English as the History of Inventions, discoveries and origins ( 1797, 4th ed 1846 ) a work in which he relates the origin, history and recent condition of the various machines, utensils, & c., employed in trade and for domestic purposes.

In 1846, Esdaile's work with mesmerism-assisted painless surgery at Hoogly had come to the attention of the Deputy Governor of Bengal, Sir Herbert Maddocks.

Margaret required surgery and follow-up medical attention in 1846 for removal of a breast lump and recurring breast and abdominal swellings.

Lincoln in his late 30s – photo taken by one of Lincoln's law students around 1846

She wrote a volume of poetry with her sisters ( Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, 1846 ) and two novels.

* 1846 – The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after James Smithson donates $ 500, 000.

A hemispherical cup anemometer of the type invented in 1846 by John Thomas Romney Robinson

A simple type of anemometer, invented ( 1846 ) by Dr. John Thomas Romney Robinson, of Armagh Observatory.

In 1899, the memorial, by the Berlin sculptor Ernst Gustav Herter ( 1846 – 1917 ), finally came to rest, although subject to repeated vandalism, in the Bronx, at 164th Street and the Grand Concourse, or Joyce Kilmer Park near today's Yankee Stadium.

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.

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.

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

Scanned from Equitable Commerce by Josiah Warren ( 1846 )

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.

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.

* Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell ( 1846 )

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 Corn Laws were finally repealed in 1846 by removal tariffs on grain which kept the price of bread artificially high.

The title of doctor has not customarily been used to address lawyers in England or other common law countries because until 1846 lawyers in England were not required to have a university degree and were trained by other attorneys by apprenticeship or in the Inns of Court.

** Smrt Smail-age Čengića by Ivan Mažuranić ( 1846 )

In 1846, the sisters ' poems were published in one volume as Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.

* Œuvres Mathématiques published in 1846 in the Journal de Liouville, converted to Djvu format by Prof. Antoine Chambert-Loir at the University of Rennes.

Leonora ( 1846 ) by William Henry Fry, the first European-styled " grand " opera composed in the United States of America, is based on Bulwer-Lytton's play The Lady of Lyons, as is Frederic Cowen's first opera Pauline ( 1876 ).

They are extensions of the term folk lore, which was coined in 1846 by the English antiquarian William Thoms to describe " the traditions, customs, and superstitions of the uncultured classes.

The word " folklore " was first used by the English antiquarian William Thoms in a letter published in the London journal The Athenaeum in 1846.

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel ( 22 July 1784 – 17 March 1846 ) was a German mathematician, astronomer, and systematizer of the Bessel functions ( which were discovered by Daniel Bernoulli ).

The bell is mentioned in a number of newspaper articles during that time ; no mention of a crack can be found until 1846.

He wrote a series on " Anti-Slavery in the United States " for the London Daily News, though it was discontinued by the editors after four articles in May 1846.

His principal works are Tobacco, its History and Association ( 1859 ); Gog and Magog ( 1860 ); Up the Nile and Home Again ( 1862 ); many articles and serials contributed to the Art Journal, some of which were afterwards separately published, as Costume in England ( 1846 ); Dictionary of Terms in Art ( 1854 ).

* Questions de mon temps, 1836 à 1846, articles extracted from the daily and weekly press ( 12 vols., 1858 ).

In 1846 he became joint editor, and during the later years of his life was chief editor, of the American Journal of Science and Arts, to which he was a constant contributor, principally of articles on geology and mineralogy.

Manchester, went to London in 1846, and became connected with the Daily News, for which he wrote articles on social and prison reform.

In 1846, he resigned the editorship and assumed that of the Daily News but contributed a series of notable articles to Athenaeum.

He was an active journalist on The Times and The Morning Herald, contributed a series of light articles to The Illustrated London News, conducted in 1846 The Almanack of the Month and found time to produce some fifty or sixty plays, among them dramatized versions of Charles Dickens's shorter stories, written in collaboration with Mark Lemon.

Most articles relate to the pre-Oregon Treaty ( 1846 ) area but some involve the aftermath and consequences of that treaty.

He published many articles about the Social Question in his quarterly journal and gave several lectures in Leipzig and Dresden between 1846 and 1847 on the subject.

revised, appeared in 1867 under the title Les Forts de la Gaule et de l ' ancienne France ); La Terre et l ' homme, a general historical sketch of geology, geography and ethnology, being the introduction to the Histoire universelle, by Victor Duruy ( 1854 ); Histoire des religions de la Grèce antique, ( 3 vols., 1857 – 1859 ); La Magie et l ' astrologie dans l ' antiquité et dans le Moyen âge ( 1863 ); Histoire de l ' ancienne Académie des sciences ( 1864 ); Histoire de l ' Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres ( 1865 ); a learned paper on the reports of French archaeology, written on the occasion of the Exposition Universelle ( 1867 ); a number of articles in the Encyclopédie moderne ( 1846 – 1851 ), in Michaud's Géographie universelle ( 1858 and seq.