Major Events
- Aug 28 Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue
- Sep 13 English chemist Michael Faraday discovers the 'Faraday effect', the influence of a magnetic field on polarized light
- Nov 4 First nationally observed uniform election day in the United States, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November
- Dec 2 US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West, a widely held belief termed "manifest destiny" by newspaper editor John O'Sullivan
- Dec 29 Texas admitted as 28th state of the Union
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1845 in Sport
- Sep 23 1st baseball team, NY Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code
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Elihu Root
Alexander III
Georg Cantor
Wilhelm Röntgen
Mary Ann Nichols
John ThompsonMore People Born in 1845
Fun Fact About 1845
Andrew Jackson's African Grey parrot "Poll" is removed from his funeral for swearing at The Hermitage, Tennessee. Funeral attendee William Menefee Norment recorded: "Before the sermon and while the crowd was gathering, a wicked parrot that was a household pet got excited and commenced swearing so loud and long as to disturb the people and had to be carried from the house”
Andrew Jackson
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Famous Weddings in 1845
- Jan 2 Explorer and medical missionary David Livingstone (31) weds Mary Moffat
- Sep 25 Confederate army Nathan Bedford Forrest (24) weds Presbyterian minister's daughter Mary Ann Montgomery (18) in Hernando, Mississippi
Charles Dickens
Giuseppe Verdi
James Knox Polk
Robert Peel