1845

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[edit] Events of 1845

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
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 3 - 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 17 - The rubber band is invented in England

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.

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 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.

Second separation of Republic of Yucatan from Mexico
Beginning of the Irish potato 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.