In 1846 the Oregon Treaty ended the Oregon Boundary Dispute ; with Britain ceding all right to the mainland south of the 49th parallel north.

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

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.

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.

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

Mademoiselle Riego de la Blanchardiere is generally credited with the invention of Irish Crochet, publishing the first book of patterns in 1846.

* Fyodor Dostoevsky used the epistolary format for his first novel, Poor Folk ( 1846 ), as a series of letters between two friends, struggling to cope with their impoverished circumstances and life in pre-revolution Russia.

In 1846 Douglass met with Thomas Clarkson, one of the last living British abolitionists, who had persuaded Parliament to abolish slavery in Great Britain and its colonies.

Witness his monographs on the vowel system in th Teutonic languages ( 1836 ), on the Celtic languages ( 1839 ), on the Old Prussian ( 1853 ) and Albanian languages ( Über das Albanesische in seinen verwandtschaftlichen Beziehungen, Vienna, 1854 ), on the accent in Sanskrit and Greek ( 1854 ), on the relationship of the Malayo-Polynesian with the Indo-European languages ( 1840 ), and on the Caucasian languages ( 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.

Between 1846 and 1874, an estimated 8, 000 gray whales were killed by American and European whalemen, with over half having been killed in the Magdalena Bay complex ( Estero Santo Domingo, Magdalena Bay itself, and Almejas Bay ) and by shore whalemen in California and Baja California.

The Irish potato famine of the 1840s was caused by a plant disease that reached the Highlands in 1846, where 150, 000 people faced disaster because their food supply was largely potatoes ( with a little herring, oatmeal and milk ).

From 1830 the state began to fund buildings with grants, then from 1846 it was funding schools by direct sponsorship, and in 1872 Scotland moved to a system like that in England of state-sponsored largely free schools, run by local school boards.

In its most significant manifestation, the Kraków Uprising of February 1846, patriotic action was combined with revolutionary demands, but the result was the incorporation of the Republic of Kraków into the Austrian partition.

The town is considered by some to be the birthplace of the cranberry industry, with the first commercial operation opened in 1846.

* 1846 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1.

To avenge the deaths, Frémont attacked a Klamath Tribe fishing village named Dokdokwas, that most likely had nothing to do with the attack, at the junction of the Williamson River and Klamath Lake, on May 10, 1846.

On June 28, 1846, Berreyesa's father, José de los Reyes Berreyesa, an elderly man, crossed the San Francisco Bay and landed near the area known as San Quentin with two cousins, twin sons of Francisco de Haro, who were 19 years old, to visit his own sons in jail.

According to Burton Stein's History of India, " Kashmir was neither as large nor as old an independent state as Hyderabad ; it had been created rather off-handedly by the British after the first defeat of the Sikhs in 1846, as a reward to a former official who had sided with the British.

In 1846, Pearson proposed with the support of the City Corporation a central railway station for London located in Farringdon that was estimated to cost £ 1 million ( approximately £ 71. 7 million today ).

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.

New Malden was established entirely as a result of the arrival of the railway when what is now called New Malden railway station was opened on 1 December 1846 on the main line from Waterloo.

Following the collapse of the Repeal Association and with the arrival of famine, the Young Irelanders broke away completely from O ’ Connell in 1846.

The arrival of the American Army under Stephen W. Kearny in 1846 ended the twenty-five years of Mexican rule in New Mexico.

In 1846, the new US envoy to Bogotá, Benjamin Bidlack, was surprised when, soon after his arrival, the New Granadans proposed that the United States be the guarantor of the neutrality of the isthmus.

A significant development for the Noongar People in the Western Australian Colony was the arrival of Rosendo Salvado in 1846.

Following the collapse of the Repeal Association and with the arrival of famine, the Young Irelanders broke away completely from O ’ Connell in 1846.

The completion of the Grand Canal in 1791, linking here with the River Barrow, and the arrival of the railway in 1846, illustrate the importance of the town as a commercial centre.

The spandrels over the arch are filled with glazed colored tile commemorating the 1769 arrival of Spain and the 1846 State Constitutional Convention at Monterey.

On his arrival in the colony of South Australia in 1846, Hanson immediately set up a legal practice.

In the summer of 1846 he made a second and more successful attempt to reach his destination, but died in Canton shortly after his arrival, on June 28, 1847.

In a despatch dated 1 May 1837, Glenelg dismissed D ' Urban, who remained governor until the arrival of his successor in January 1838 and continued in his military capacity in South Africa until 1846.

The arrival of the London and South Western Railway in 1838 made the area ripe for ' a daily commute to town ' and in 1846 the estate was broken up into lots for building development and sold at three public auctions in May, August and September of that year.

The Bailiff of Jersey laid in the foundations a box containing copies of the Acts of the States relating to the college, Jersey coins, and two medallions, one of silver, the other of bronze, depicting the arrival of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in Jersey in 1846, and a copper plate engraved with an inscription of the date of the founding of the college and the names of States Members, Officers of the Royal Court and the architect.

* USS Germantown ( 1846 ), a sloop-of-war

The USS Vincennes ( 1826 ) | Vincennes and USS Columbus ( 1819 ) | Colombus in Tokyo Bay, Japan, in July 1846.

The USS Vincennes ( 1826 ) | USS Vincennes and an American crewman in Edo Bay in 1846, depicted by a Japanese artist.

On July 20, 1846, he anchored with the two warships USS Columbus and USS Vincennes in Uraga Channel at the mouth to Edo Bay in an attempt to open up Japan to trade with the United States, but was ultimately unsuccessful.

Unknown to Frémont and the Bear Flag supporters, war had already been formally declared on May 13, 1846, but the news did not reach California until early July, when the frigate USS Savannah and the two sloops, USS Cyane and USS Levant, of the United States Navy captured Monterey, California.

USS Cyane Taking Possession of San Diego Old Town July 1846, by Carlton T. Chapman ( detail )

In February 1846, Parker applied to rejoin the crew of the USS Potomac and was assigned as a Midshipman under the command of Captain John H. Aulick.

The USS Columbus ( 1819 ) | USS Columbus and an American crewman in Edo Bay in 1846, from the failed mission of James Biddle, depicted by a Japanese artist.

In early June 1846, Montgomery and the ship he commanded, the USS Portsmouth, arrived in San Francisco Bay, then part of the Mexican province of Alta California.

While serving in the USS Mississippi from 1846 to 1848, during the Mexican-American War, McDougal participated in Commodore Matthew C. Perry's Mosquito Fleet Campaign and the blockade and siege of Veracruz.

After graduation on July 9, 1846, Simpson reported to USS Vixen and participated in numerous bombardments during the Mexican-American War.

* USS Morris ( 1846a ), was a schooner in service from early 1846 until wrecked in October 1846

* USS Morris ( 1846b ), was a schooner in service from 1846 to 1848.

* USS Mount Vernon ( 1846 ), a sidewheel gunboat seized by the U. S. Navy in April 1861, renamed USS in November 1861, and sold in 1865.