In 1842 – 1846 he issued his Nomenclator Zoologicus, a classified list, with references, of all names employed in zoology for genera and groups — a work of great labour and research.

Gesner's research in minerals resulted in his 1846 development of a process to refine a liquid fuel from coal, bitumen and oil shale.

King Christian sent him on a research trip to Britain and Ireland in 1846 and 1847, to study evidence of Vikings.

Draper did important research in photochemistry, made portrait photography possible by his improvements ( 1839 ) on Louis Daguerre's process, and published a textbook on Chemistry ( 1846 ), textbook on Natural Philosophy ( 1847 ), textbook on Physiology ( 1866 ), and Scientific Memoirs ( 1878 ) on radiant energy.

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.

Instead, their approach has been to stress their historical abhorrence of polygamy, that members of the church and the leadership are open to continue their " ongoing quest for truth ", and that " the Community of Christ takes into account the growing body of scholarly research and publications depicting the polygamous teachings and practices of the Nauvoo period of church history ( 1840 – 1846 )".

James Sheridan Muspratt's own cited original research work includes a report on the sulphites ( 1845 ) and, with August Wilhelm von Hofmann, on the preparation of toluidine and nitraniline ( 1845 – 1846 ).

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 ).

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

In 1846, Congress approved the Walker Tariff ( named after Robert J. Walker, the Secretary of the Treasury ), which represented a substantial reduction of the high Whig-backed Tariff of 1842.

They were introduced to Europe in 1846 by Robert Fortune, collector for the London Horticultural Society, and shortly thereafter into North America.

Frémont's California Battalion next moved south to the Mexican provincial capital of Monterey, where they met US Commodore Robert Stockton in mid-July 1846.

* 1846 – Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning.

In 1846, Prosper Enfantin's Société d ' Études du Canal de Suez invited a number of experts, among them Robert Stephenson, Negrelli and Paul-Adrien Bourdaloue to study the feasibility of the Suez Canal ( with the assistance of Linant de Bellefonds ).

A scholarly, annotated edition of the original 1846 – 47 serial was published in volume form in 2007 by the Oxford University Press under the title of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, edited by Robert Mack.

Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet ( 5 February 17882 July 1850 ) was a British Conservative statesman, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 December 1834 to 8 April 1835, and again from 30 August 1841 to 29 June 1846.

* 1988: The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846 – 1876 by Robert V. Bruce

: 1846: Robert Knox

The City of Benicia was founded on May 19, 1847, by Dr. Robert Semple, and Thomas O. Larkin and Comandante General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, on land sold to them by General Vallejo in December 1846.

* Report and Resolutions of a Public Meeting, Held at Glasgow, on Friday, March 20 1846, in Support of Sir Robert Peel's Suggestions in Reference to Railways – Peel had commented upon the impolity and danger of allowing too much capital to be invested in railways in too short a period.

The first year that Robert Peel voted in favour was 1846, though he had spoken in favour of repeal during 1845 but voted against it.

On January 3, 1846, Representative Robert Winthrop ridiculed the concept in Congress, saying " I suppose the right of a manifest destiny to spread will not be admitted to exist in any nation except the universal Yankee nation ".

In late 1846 Frémont, acting under orders from Commodore Robert F. Stockton, led a military expedition of 300 men to capture Santa Barbara, California, during the Mexican-American War.

Robert Addison Gillespie, a hero of the 1846 Battle of Monterrey in the Mexican-American War.

In 1846, Slatington was incorporated into a Borough of Pennsylvania ; its first Mayor was Robert McDowell.

It was then operated by various owners ; Mark Richards and Benjamin Jones 1819 to 1846, forge constructed, Henry Little for 6 months in 1846, John and William Shyrock 1846-47, Robert Bingham, William Shyrock and Andrew Royer 1847 to 1850, Daniel Weyand 1850 to 1880.

The First Presbyterian Church was designed in 1846 by Robert Walker, a noted architect from Charleston, but construction wasn ’ t begun until several years later and wasn ’ t completed until after the Civil War.

The first Austrian producer of sparkling wine was Robert Alwin Schlumberger, who presented his first sparkling wine in 1846 under the name Vöslauer weißer Schaumwein ( White sparkling wine of Vöslau ).