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| 1845 |
| | | The first Anglo-Sikh war breaks out between Sikh forces in the Punjab and encroaching forces of Britain's East India Company | |
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| 1845 |
| | | Brunel's suspension bridge serves Hungerford market | |
|  | Hungerford Bridge, by Shepherd, 1854
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| 1845 |
| | | Friedrich Engels, after running a textile factory in Manchester, publishes The Condition of the Working Class in England | |
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| c. 1845 |
| | | Queen Victoria and Prince Albert follow the German custom of a family Christmas tree, immediately making it popular in Britain | |
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| 1846 |
| | | The first Anglo-Sikh war ends with the Treaty of Lahore, by which Jammu and Kashmir are ceded to the British | |
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| 1846 |
| | | The self-contained metal cartridge, with a percussion cap in its base, is patented by a Paris gunsmith named Houiller | |
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| 1846 |
| | | British prime minister Robert Peel carries a bill to repeal the Corn Laws, splitting his own party in the process | |
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| 1846 |
| | | Francis Parkman travels west into dangerous territory in Wyoming, an adventure he later describes in The Oregon Trail | |
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| c. 1846 |
| | | The Irish, fleeing from the potato famine at home, become the main group of immigrants to the USA | |
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| 1846 |
| | | The minority of Conservatives supporting Peel become a separate faction, henceforth known as the Peelites | |
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| 1846 |
| | | Edward Lear publishes his Book of Nonsense, consisting of limericks illustrated with his own cartoons | |
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| 1846 |
| | | The Oregon Treaty establishes the border between Canada and the USA along the 49th parallel to the Pacific | |
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| 1846 |
| | | President Polk sends a US army into Texas, provoking the Mexican-American War | |
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| 1846 |
| | | With his Conservative party split, Peel's government falls and Lord John Russell becomes British prime minister at the head of a Whig administration | |
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| 1846 |
| | | Brigham Young leads the migration of Mormons west up the Missouri from Illinois | |
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| 1846 |
| | | Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah has its premiere in England, in the city of Birmingham | |
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| 1846 |
| | | After marrying secretly, the English poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett go abroad to live in Florence | |
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| 1846 |
| | | The US Congress establishes the Smithsonian Institution with a bequest to the nation by Englishman James Smithson | |
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| 1846 |
| | | A dentist in Boston, William Morton, uses ether as an anaesthetic while surgeon John Collins Warren removes a tumour in a patient's neck | |
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| 1846 |
| | | Landlords in Scotland begin to clear crofters from Highland estates so as to provide pasture for sheep | |
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| 1846 |
| | | Members of the Donner Party, on the trail to California, survive by eating human flesh when trapped by snow in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada | |
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| 1846 |
| | | The three Brontë sisters jointly publish a volume of their poems and sell just two copies | |
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| 1847 |
| | | A new Factory Act is passed in Britain, limiting the working day of women and children to a maximum of ten hours | |
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| 1847 |
| | | Scottish obstetrician James Simpson uses anaesthetic (ether, and later in the year choloroform) to ease difficulty in childbirth | |
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| 1847 |
| | | English author William Makepeace Thackeray begins publication of his novel Vanity Fair in monthly parts (book form 1848) | |
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| 1847 |
| | | Camillo Benso di Cavour founds a newspaper in north Italy and calls it Il Risorgimento ('The Resurgence') | |
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| 1847 |
| | | At a congress in London Engels persuades a group of radical Germans to adopt the name Communist League | |
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