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

Book releaseHistoric Publication

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

Novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Novelist
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Event of interestEvent of Interest

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

Novelist Charles Dickens
Novelist
Charles Dickens
  • 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

Famous Birthdays

  • Jan 1 Nikola Pasic, Serbian nationalist/premier (1891..1926)
  • Jan 2 Sandor Erkel, Hungarian composer,son of Ferenc Erkel, born in Pest (d. 1900)
  • Jan 5 Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German Idealist philosopher (Nobel 1908)
  • Jan 8 Albert Cahen, composer
  • Jan 8 William Wallace Gilchrist, composer
  • 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)

Famous Deaths

  • Jan 5 Alfred Thomas Agate, American artist, dies at 33
  • Jan 10 Etienne P de Senancour, French writer (De l'Amour), dies at 75