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Born :10/28/1846Auguste Escoffier, king of chefs and chef of kings
Born :08/22/1846B Amalie Skram-Alver, Norway, writer (Hellemyrsfolket)
Born :11/25/1846Carry Nation, scourge of barkeepers and drinkers
Born :07/19/1846Charles Edward Pickering, pioneered American spectroscopist
Born :06/27/1846Charles Stewart Parnell, Ireland, nationalist
Born :09/04/1846Daniel Burnham, US, architect/built skyscrapers
Born :07/10/1846Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche, German writer (Der junge Nietzsche)
Born :11/19/1846Emile C Wauters, Belgium, painter (Van der Goes i/h Red Klooster)
Born :12/31/1846Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, vicar/Dutch anarchist (Right for all)
Born :01/30/1846Francis H Bradley, British philosopher (neo-idealism)
Born :06/23/1846George Sax, inventor (saxophone)
Born :10/06/1846George Westinghouse, responsible for alternating current in US
Born :05/05/1846Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland, author (Quo Vadis, Nobel 1905)
Born :09/05/1846John W Cromwell, Secy (American Negro Academy)
Born :06/04/1846Josef Sittard, music writer
Born :08/16/1846Justus van Maurik, cigar manufacturer/writer/head of red guard
Born :10/14/1846Kasimir F Badeni, Polish/Austrian premier of Cisleithani
Born :03/17/1846Kate Greenaway, England, artist/book illustrator (Under the Window)
Born :08/25/1846Louise J Gautier, French poetess
Born :11/10/1846Martin Wegelius, Finnish musicologist/composer
Born :12/22/1846Oscar Carre, circus director
Born :05/08/1846Oscar Hammerstein, Germany, opera/playwright (Kohinoor)
Born :05/30/1846Peter Carl Faberge, Russia, goldsmith/jeweler/egg maker
Born :12/02/1846Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French Min of Foreign affairs/premier
Born :03/22/1846Randolph Caldecott, England, illustrater (Caldecott Medal namesake)
Born :01/05/1846Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Germany, Idealist philosopher (Nobel 1908)
Born :09/25/1846Vladimir Koppen, Russ/German meteorologist
Born :02/09/1846Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer, designer of 1st Mercedes
Born :02/26/1846William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Davenport Iowa, killed 4000 buffaloes
Born :02/11/1846William Fox Talbot, pioneer photographer/inventor




Died :01/10/1846Etienne P de Senancour, French writer (De l'amour), dies
Died :03/17/1846F W Bessel, measured distance to 61 Cygni, dies
Died :03/17/1846Friedrich W Bessel, German astronomer (Bessel Functions), dies
Died :08/25/1846Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian traveller/nature investigator/diplomat, dies
Died :06/01/1846Gregory XVI, [Bartolomeo A Cappellari]/Mauro, Pope dies at 80
Died :02/03/1846Joseph Weigl, Austria composer/conductor (Tie Waisenhaus), dies
Died :07/24/1846Joseph von Eybler, Austrian composer/choir master, dies




Special :02/05/18461st US newspaper published on Pacific Coast, Oregon Spectator
Special :02/21/18461st US woman telegrapher, Sarah G Bagley, Lowell, Mass
Special :06/19/18461st baseball game (Cartwright Rules)-NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1
Special :05/08/18461st major battle of Mexican War fought at Palo Alto Texas
Special :05/21/18461st steamship arrives in Hawaii
Special :09/30/1846Anesthetic ether used for 1st time (Dr Wm Morton extracts a tooth)
Special :01/28/1846Battle of Allwal, Brits beat Sikhs in Punjab (India)
Special :05/09/1846Battle of Resaca de la Palma-US sends Mexico back to Rio Grande
Special :02/10/1846Beginning of Mormon march to west US
Special :02/10/1846British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India
Special :02/20/1846British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore
Special :12/05/1846C F Schoenbein obtains patent for cellulose nitrate explosive
Special :06/14/1846California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma
Special :07/09/1846Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (SF) for US
Special :08/10/1846Congress charters "nation's attic," Smithsonian Institution
Special :10/16/1846Dentist William T Morton demonstrates effectiveness of ether
Special :10/15/1846Dr William Thomas Green Morton 1st public use of ether
Special :09/10/1846Elias Howe patents sewing machine
Special :09/19/1846Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning elopes
Special :08/18/1846Gen Stephen W Kearney's US forces captures Santa Fe, NM
Special :05/24/1846Gen Zachary Taylor captures Monterey in Mexican War
Special :08/14/1846Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance
Special :12/28/1846Iowa becomes 29th state
Special :09/23/1846Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune
Special :05/03/1846Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas
Special :07/21/1846Mormons found 1st English settlement in Calif (San Joaquin Valley)
Special :02/04/1846Mormons leave Nauvoo, Mo for settlement in west
Special :10/10/1846Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell
Special :12/06/1846Opera "La Damnation de Faust" is produced (Paris)
Special :06/15/1846Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49ø N
Special :08/05/1846Oregon country divided between US and Britain at 49th parallel
Special :10/28/1846Pioneers suffer blizzard in Sierra Nevada; 42 die
Special :02/23/1846Polish revolutionaries march on Cracow, but are defeated
Special :06/10/1846Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire
Special :02/19/1846Texas state govt formally installed in Austin
Special :02/01/1846Thephile Gautier publishes "Hashish Club" about his initiation
Special :08/22/1846US annexes New Mexico
Special :07/07/1846US annexs California
Special :05/13/1846US declares war on Mexico, 2 months after fighting begins
Special :08/17/1846US fleet officer Robert F Stockton annexes California
Special :05/04/1846US state Michigan ends death penalty
Special :05/18/1846US troops attack Rio Grande occuping Matamoros
Special :09/25/1846US troops under Gen Taylor occupies Monterey Mexico
Special :08/26/1846W A Bartlett appointed 1st US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF)
Special :01/01/1846Yucatan declares independence from Mexico

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