What Happened in January 1846

Historical Events

Jan 1 Yucatan declares independence from Mexico
Jan 5 The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom

Jan 15 Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky's first novel "Poor Folk" is published in the St Petersburg Collection almanac

Jan 21 1st edition of Charles Dickens' newspaper "The Daily News"

Jan 23 Tunisia becomes the first Arab nation to outlaw slavery in decree issued by Ahmed I Bey [1]
Jan 28 Battle of Allwal, British beat Sikhs in Punjab
Jan 31 After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unified as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Jan 1 Nikola Pasic, Serbian nationalist/premier (1891..1926)
Jan 2 Sandor Erkel, Hungarian composer and son of Ferenc Erkel, born in Pest (d. 1900)
Jan 5 Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German idealist philosopher (Nobel 1908), born in Aurich, Germany (d. 1926)
Jan 8 Albert Cahen, composer
Jan 8 William Wallace Gilchrist, American composer, born in Jersey City, New Jersey (d. 1916)
Jan 29 Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (d. 1915)
Jan 30 Francis H. Bradley, British idealist philosopher (Appearance and Reality), born in Clapham, Surrey, England (d. 1924)

Jan 5 Alfred Thomas Agate, American artist, dies at 33
Jan 10 Étienne Pivert de Senancour, French writer (De l'Amour), dies at 75
Jan 30 Joseph Carpue, English surgeon who pioneered early plastic surgery in England, dies at 81