Historical Events In 1845
May 03 The first black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to the bar (Massachusetts)
May 28 Fire in Québec Canada, 1,500 houses destroyed
May 03 Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China
May 17 Rubber band patents
May 14 Utrecht-Arnhem Railway opens
May 02 Domingo Sarmiento publishes "Civilización y Barbarie"
May 20 The first legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii
Jan 23 Uniform US election day for President &Vice President authorized
Jan 29 The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe's first poem, is published.
Jan 23 Congress decided that all national elections would take place on the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November.
Jan 29 Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" first published (New York City NY)
Jan 06 Protestants and Catholics riot in Stratford, Ontario following the council election; eighty men fight in the streets
Jan 06 Protestants and Catholics riot in Stratford, Ontario following the council election; eighty men fight in the streets
Jan 10 Poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning begin corresponding
Jan 23 Congress agrees that all national elections in the U.S. will fall on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November.
Feb 15 William Parsons, Earl of Rosse, first uses 72" (183 cm) reflector
Apr 02 H.L. Fizeau &J Leon Foucault take first photo of Sun
Apr 10 More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh Pa
Nov 04 The first nationally observed uniform election day in US
Sep 23 First baseball team, NY Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code
Sep 24 The first baseball team is organized
Jun 01 Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days
Jun 12 George Abernethy becomes first governor of Oregon Country
Jun 08 Andrew Jackson, seventh US president, dies in Nashville.
Jun 28 Another Quebec fire destroys the suburb of St. John and 1,300 houses.
Dec 29 Texas is admitted as the 28th state of the US.
Dec 27 Ether first used in childbirth in US, Jefferson GA
Dec 22 The first voice synthesizer, later known as P.T. Barnum's Euphonium, was demonstrated to the public in Philadelphia on this day in 1845.
Aug 12 Off Point Pelee, Ontario the steamships Kent and London collide in clear weather, with the loss of ten lives.
Aug 05 In Australia's worst shipping disaster, 407 die when the Cataraqui is wrecked off King Island.
Oct 10 The Naval School (now called US Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis
Oct 13 Texas ratifies a state constitution
Jul 04 Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond
Jul 14 The first postmasters' provisional stamps issued, NYC
Jul 04 Texas Congress votes for annexation to US
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