In January 1846, to increase pressure on Mexico to negotiate, Polk sent troops under General Zachary Taylor into the area between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande — territory that was claimed by both the U. S. and Mexico.

Burial Hill ( now Flagstaff railway station ) became its home ground in January 1839, however, the area was already set aside for Botanical Gardens and the club was moved on in October 1846, to an area on the south bank of the Yarra about where the Herald and Weekly Times building is today.

The Drunkard's Progress: A lithograph by Nathaniel Currier supporting the temperance movement, January 1846

* US Patent 1, 647 ( Reissue # 79 ), Improvement in the mode of communicating information by signals by the application of electro-magnetism, January 15, 1846

* January 10 – William F. " Buffalo Bill " Cody, American frontiersman ( b. 1846 )

* January 31 – The Corn Laws are abolished the next year in the United Kingdom ( following legislation in 1846 ).

* January 31 – Rodolphe Töpffer, a Swiss teacher, author, and artist ( d. 1846 )

* January 20 – Indiana University Bloomington is founded as the Indiana State Seminary ( renamed Indiana College, 1846 ).

He achieved more recognition with his Snob Papers ( serialised 1846 / 7, published in book form in 1848 ), but the work that really established his fame was the novel Vanity Fair, which first appeared in serialised instalments beginning in January 1847.

The state capital was moved from Tuscaloosa to Montgomery, on January 28, 1846.

The Drunkard's Progress: A lithograph by Nathaniel Currier supporting the temperance movement, January 1846.

Publication ran from August 28, 1844 to January 15, 1846.

On 4 December 1845 an announcement appeared in The Times that the government had decided to recall Parliament during January 1846 to repeal the Corn Laws.

On 27 January 1846, Peel gave a three-hour speech saying that the Corn Laws would be abolished on 1 February 1849 after three years of gradual reductions of the tariff, leaving only a 1 shilling duty per quarter.

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 January 1846, part of Milwaukee County was split off into Waukesha County.

Charles Piazzi Smyth ( 3 January 1819 – 21 February 1900 ), was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888, well known for many innovations in astronomy and his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

The record highest temperature was in July 1846 and the record lowest temperature was on January 29, 1873.

Portions of the township were taken on March 4, 1822 to form Centreville Township ( which was restored in 1829 when the Centreville was dissolved ), on March 10, 1846 to form Upper Pittsgrove Township and on January 28, 1893 to form Elmer Borough.

After the family had returned to Rustenburg, Kruger's wife and infant died in January, 1846.

The town was founded on January 22, 1846.

Henry George Liddell (; 6 February 1811 – 18 January 1898 ) was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, dean ( 1855 – 91 ) of Christ Church, Oxford, headmaster ( 1846 – 55 ) of Westminster School ( where a house is now named after him ), author of A History of Rome ( 1857 ), and co-author ( with Robert Scott ) of the monumental work A Greek-English Lexicon, which is still used by students of Greek.

Louis-Pierre Baltard ( 9 July 1764 – 22 January 1846 ) was a French architect, and engraver, born in Paris.

She became ill and spent the winter of 1846 in Springfield, Illinois recovering, but her report was ready for the January 1847 legislative session, which promptly adopted legislation establishing Illinois ' first state mental hospital.

He set aside his paying work and at the next meeting on 10 January reported that birds from the Galápagos Islands which Darwin had thought were blackbirds, " gross-bills " and finches were in fact " a series of ground Finches which are so peculiar " as to form " an entirely new group, containing 12 species.

A major complicating factor in constructing a perpetual calendar algorithm is the peculiar and variable length of February, which was at one time the last month of the year, leaving the first 11 months March through January with a five-month repeating pattern: 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, ..., so that the offset from March of the starting day of the week for any month could be easily determined.

Thus it seemed very peculiar to say that there had been any sort of agreement between Mrs Carlill and the company, which did not even know of her existence until January 20, when her husband wrote to them to complain.

Since she is prohibited from being nominated to Latvian Parliament or local councils under Latvian law due to her former allegiance with the Communist Party of Latvia after January 1991, she is ( similarly with Alfrēds Rubiks ) in the peculiar position of being restricted to Europarliament elections.

He startlingly revealed at the next meeting on 10 January that what Darwin had taken to be wrens, blackbirds and slightly differing finches were " a series of ground finches which are so peculiar " as to form " an entirely new group " of 11 species.

In January 1954, a tiger killed on the Sumbar in Kopet-Dag had a skull greatest length of, which is considerably more than the known maximum for this population and slightly exceeds that of most Far Eastern tigers.

*" Samurai Delicatessen " January 17, 1976-Mr. Dantley ( host Buck Henry ) waits as The Samurai makes a sandwich by severing ropes on hanging salami, slicing tomatoes in midair, and splitting bread with his skull.

In January 1932, human remains were discovered about three-quarters of a mile ( 1. 21 km ) from where the skull had been found.

A Coelophysis skull from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History was aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour mission STS-89 when it left the atmosphere on January 22, 1998.

In January 1992, Powell's skull was discovered stored at the Smithsonian Anthropology Department.

In January 1954, a tiger killed near the Sumbar River in Kopet-Dag had a skull length of, which is considerably more than the known maximum for this population and slightly exceeds that of most Siberian tigers.

On January 21, they performed in Amsterdam, at The Paradiso Theatre, where the skull of Melissa had been stolen from the altar on stage by a fan due to very incompetent local security.

In January 2002, Kazakhstani printers began to refuse to print the paper, one after a human skull was placed on his doorstep.

Its second press release was on January 15, 1958, and it recommended that the secret papers be destroyed.

This conference was held despite Stavropoulos' assurance to Adolf Berle, who was leaving the same day for Puerto Rico, that nothing would be done until his return on January 22, except that the Secretary General would probably order the list destroyed.

On January 24 Paul Bang-Jensen, accompanied by Adolf Berle, was met by Dragoslav Protitch and Colonel Frank Begley, former Police Chief of Farmington, Conn., and now head of U.N. special police.

The queen agreed on December 17, a warrant was signed on January 27, and the Exchequer paid Quiney his expenses on February 27, 1598/9.

On January 4, with the boys back at school and college, Mrs. Lewis wrote Harcourt to say that she was `` through, quite through ''.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.

During the period from 1 July 1960 through 31 January 1961, the Medical Museum was required to move to Temporary Building `` S '' on the Mall from Chase Hall.

In January, 1960, the first issue of The Carleton Miscellany, a quarterly literary magazine, was published by the College.

The matter was considered and reconsidered, and finally opposed, but in spite of many objections, the Court granted a charter on January 9, 1792.

In January, 1958, the Minister of the Interior announced that an election law was ready to be submitted to the King, the rumors of election dates appeared once again, first for spring of 1958 and later for the summer.

The latter now furnishes the area with electricity distributed from a modern sub-station at Manchester Depot which was put into operation February 19, 1930 and was improved in January 1942 by the installation of larger transformers.

The dissolved oxygen in the aeration unit was consistently high until January 29, 1961.

The infamous Wansee Conference called by Heydrich in January 1942, to organize the material and technical means to put to death the eleven million Jews spread throughout the nations of Europe, was attended by representatives of major organs of the German state, including the Reich Minister of the Interior, the State Secretary in charge of the Four Year Plan, the Reich Minister of Justice, the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

The plantation was sold in January, 1845, and Palfrey thought the new owner ought to pay his people two months' wages.

A bond issue which would have provided some $3.5 million for construction of the two 900-student schools was defeated by district voters in January.

One of the initial questions put to President Kennedy at his first news conference last January was about his attitude toward a meeting with Premier Khrushchev.

When the winter tour began at Los Angeles last January there was no one in sight to challenge Palmer's towering prestige.

The Church Unity Octave, January 18-25, was enthusiastically devoted to prayer and discussion by the various churches.

Then one day, early in January, 1960, I sat down at my desk, and suddenly I was aware of the crucifix.

A wedding set for January 1, 1841, was canceled when the two broke off their engagement at Lincoln's initiative.

The ensuing Union victory was among the bloodiest in American history, but it enabled Lincoln to announce that he would issue an Emancipation Proclamation in January.

After a long debate in the House, a second attempt passed Congress on January 13, 1865, and was sent to the state legislatures for ratification.