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January 1846 in History

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Events in History

  • 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

Poor Folk

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

Novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"The Daily News"

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

Novelist Charles Dickens
  • 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

Birthdays in History

  • Jan 1 Nikola Pasic, Serbian nationalist and premier (over many periods from 1891 to 1926), born in Zaječar, Serbia (d. 1926)
  • Jan 5 Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German idealist philosopher (Nobel 1908), born in Aurich, Germany (d. 1926)
  • 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)

Deaths in History

  • 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

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