1845

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Year 1845 (MDCCCXLV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1845

January - June

January 23 - The U.S. Congress establishes a uniform date for federal elections, which will henceforth be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
January 29 - "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time (New York Evening Mirror).
February 7 - In the British Museum, drunken visitor smashes Portland Vase - it takes months to repair
February 28 - Texas becomes a state of the United States
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 4 - For the first time the U.S. Congress passes legislation overriding a presidential veto.
March 4 - James K. Polk succeeds John Tyler as the 11th President of the United States.
March 11 - Flagstaff War: Chiefs Kawiti and Hone Heke lead 700 Māoris in the burning of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka, now known as Russell.
March 13 - The premiere of the Violin Concerto by Felix Mendelssohn is given in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
March 17 - The rubber band is invented in England
April 10 - A great fire destroys much of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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.
June 8 - Former United States President Andrew Jackson dies near Nashville, Tennessee.

July - December

July 4 - Near Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau embarks on a two-year experiment in simple living at Walden Pond (see Walden).
July 20 - Charles Sturt enters the Simpson Desert in central Australia
August 9 - Aberdeen Act signed.
August 28 - Scientific American begins publication
September 25 - Phi Alpha Literary Society founded.
October 9 - The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church
October 10 - In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors.
October 12 - The Société Mathématique de France was founded.
October 13 - A majority of voters in the Republic of Texas approve a proposed constitution, that if accepted by the U.S. Congress, will make Texas a U.S. state.
November 20 - Battle of Vuelta de Obligado between the Argentine Confederation and an Anglo-French fleet on the waters of the Paraná River.
December 2 - Manifest Destiny: US President James Polk announces to Congress that the Monroe Doctrine should be strictly enforced and that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
December 5 - Templars of Honor and Temperance founded.
December 6 - Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity founded.
December 22–December 23 - Battle of Ferozeshah: British forces defeat Sikhs in Punjab.
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.
December 30 - Queen's Colleges of Belfast, Cork and Galway are incorporated in Ireland.

Undated

Second separation of Republic of Yucatan from Mexico
Beginning of the Great Irish Famine.
Ephraim Bee reveals that the Emperor of China has given him a special dispensation; that he had entrusted him with certain sacred and mysterious rituals through Caleb Cushing, the US Commissioner to China, to "extend the work and influence of the Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus" in the new world.
Templars of Honor and Temperance established in U.S.
Frederick Douglass's autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is first published.

Ongoing events

Great Irish Famine (1844-1849)

Births

**1845 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1845 MDCCCXLV
Ab urbe condita	2598
Armenian calendar	1294 ԹՎ ՌՄՂԴ
Bahá'í calendar	1 – 2
Berber calendar	2795
Buddhist calendar	2389
Burmese calendar	1207
Chinese calendar	4481/4541-11-23 (甲辰年十一月廿三日) — to — 4482/4542-12-3 (乙巳年十二月初三日)
Coptic calendar	1561 – 1562
Ethiopian calendar	1837 – 1838
Hebrew calendar	5605 – 5606
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1900 – 1901
- Shaka Samvat	1767 – 1768
- Kali Yuga	4946 – 4947
Holocene calendar	11845
Iranian calendar	1223 – 1224
Islamic calendar	1260 – 1262
Japanese calendar	Kōka 2 (弘化2年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2505 (皇紀2505年)
Korean calendar	4178
Thai solar calendar	2388
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