1845

Events

   * Beginning of the Irish potato famine.
   * James Knox Polk succeeds John Tyler as President of the United States
     of America
   * January 29 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first
     time (New York Evening Mirror).
   * March 1 - President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United
     States to annex the Republic of Texas.
   * March 3 - Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
   * March 3 - For the first time the United States Congress passes
     legislation overriding a presidential veto.
   * March 11 - First maori War: Chiefs Kawiti and Hone-Heke leads 700
     Maoris in the burning of the white settlement of Kororareka, now known
     as Russel.
   * May 20 - The HMS Erebus and Terror with 134 men under John Franklin
     sail from the River Thames beginning a disastrous expedition to find
     the Northwest Passage.
   * July 4 - Near Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau embarks on a
     two-year experiment in simple living at Walden Pond (see Walden).
   * August 28 - Scientific American begins publication
   * October 10 - In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed
     the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipmen students and
     seven professors.
   * October 13 - A majority of voters in the Republic of Texas approve a
     proposed constitution, that if accepted by the United States Congress,
     will make Texas a U.S. state.
   * Second separation of Republic of Yucatan from Mexico
   * December 27 - Anesthesia is used for childbirth for the first time (Dr.
     Crawford Williamson Long in Jefferson, Georgia).
   * December 29 - Texas is admitted as the 28th U.S. state.

Births

   * March 3 - Georg Cantor, German mathematician (+ 1918)
   * March 10 - Emperor Alexander III of Russia
   * March 27 - Wilhelm Conrad Ršntgen, physicist, winner of the first Nobel
     Prize in physics 1901 (+ 1923)
   * May 12 - Gabriel FaurŽ, composer (+ 1924)
   * May 17 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet
   * May 30 - King Amadeus I of Spain
   * August 25 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria (+ 1886)
   * November 10 - John Sparrow David Thompson, Canadian prime minister.

Deaths

   * May 12 - Janos Bacsanyi, Hungarian poet
   * June 8 - Andrew Jackson, 7th president of the United States of America

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