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List of 1845 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1845

What happened in the year 1845?

Date Event
January 29, 1845 "The Raven" is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe.
March 1, 1845 United States President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
March 3, 1845 Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
March 11, 1845 Flagstaff War: Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi, chiefs Hone Heke, Kawiti and Māori tribe members chop down the British flagpole for a fourth time and drive settlers out of Kororareka, New Zealand.
March 13, 1845 Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
March 25, 1845 New Zealand Legislative Council pass the first Militia Act constituting the New Zealand Army.
May 19, 1845 Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition depart from Greenhithe, England.
May 30, 1845 The Fatel Razack coming from India, lands in the Gulf of Paria in Trinidad and Tobago carrying the first Indians to the country.
July 4, 1845 Henry David Thoreau moves into a small cabin on Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau's account of his two years there, Walden, will become a touchstone of the environmental movement.
July 19, 1845 Great New York City Fire of 1845: The last great fire to affect Manhattan begins early in the morning and is subdued that afternoon. The fire kills four firefighters and 26 civilians and destroys 345 buildings.
August 28, 1845 The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
September 9, 1845 Possible start of the Great Famine of Ireland.[7]
October 10, 1845 In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 students.
November 20, 1845 Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: Battle of Vuelta de Obligado.
December 2, 1845 Manifest Destiny: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James K. Polk proposes that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
December 27, 1845 Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Long in Jefferson, Georgia.
December 27, 1845 Having coined the phrase "manifest destiny" the previous July, journalist John L. O'Sullivan argued in his newspaper New York Morning News that the United States had the right to claim the entire Oregon Country.
December 29, 1845 The United States annexes the Republic of Texas and admits it as the 28th state.