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Map of Texas , Oregon , and California in 1846 Events from the year 1846 in the United States . In this year, the United States declares war on Mexico, starting the Mexican–American War .
Governors and lieutenant governors
Governor of Alabama : Joshua L. Martin (Independent )Governor of Arkansas : Thomas Stevenson Drew (Democratic )Governor of Connecticut : Roger Sherman Baldwin (Whig ) (until May 6), Isaac Toucey (Democratic ) (starting May 6)Governor of Delaware :
Governor of Florida : William Dunn Moseley (Democratic )Governor of Georgia : George W. Crawford (Whig )Governor of Illinois : Thomas Ford (Democratic ) (until December 9), Augustus C. French (Democratic ) (starting December 9)Governor of Indiana : James Whitcomb (Democratic )Governor of Iowa : James Clarke (political party unknown) (until December 28), Ansel Briggs (Democratic ) (starting December 28)Governor of Kentucky : William Owsley (Whig )Governor of Louisiana : Alexandre Mouton (Democratic ) (until February 12), Isaac Johnson (Democratic ) (starting February 12)Governor of Maine : Hugh J. Anderson (Democratic )Governor of Maryland : Thomas Pratt (Democratic )Governor of Massachusetts : George N. Briggs (Democratic )Governor of Michigan : John S. Barry (Democratic ) (until January 5), Alpheus Felch (Democratic ) (starting January 5)Governor of Mississippi : Albert G. Brown (Democratic )Governor of Missouri : John C. Edwards (Democratic )Governor of New Hampshire : John H. Steele (Democratic ) (until June 4), Anthony Colby (Whig ) (starting June 4)Governor of New Jersey : Charles C. Stratton (Whig )Governor of New York : Silas Wright (Democratic ) (until end of December 31)Governor of North Carolina : William Alexander Graham (Whig )Governor of Ohio : Mordecai Bartley (Democratic ) (until December 12), William Bebb (Whig ) (starting December 12)Governor of Pennsylvania : Francis R. Shunk (Democratic )Governor of Rhode Island : Charles Jackson (Know Nothing) (until May 6), Byron Diman (Law and Order ) (starting May 6)Governor of South Carolina : William Aiken, Jr. (Democratic ) (until December 8), David Johnson (Democratic ) (starting December 8)Governor of Tennessee : Aaron V. Brown (Democratic )Governor of Texas : Anson Jones (political party unknown) (until February 19), James Pinckney Henderson (Democratic ) (starting February 19)Governor of Vermont : William Slade (Whig ) (until October 9), Horace Eaton (Whig ) (starting October 9)Governor of Virginia : James McDowell (Democratic ) (until January 1), William Smith (Democratic ) (starting January 1)Lieutenant governors [ edit ]
September 21–24: Battle of Monterrey (Mexican–American War ). June 14 – Mexican–American War : The California Republic declares independence from Mexico .
June 15 – Bear Flag Revolt : American settlers in Sonoma, California start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic .
June 16 – The Oregon Treaty establishes the 49th parallel as the border between the United States and Canada , from the Rocky Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca .
June 20 – The first officially recorded baseball game using modern rules developed by Alexander Cartwright is played in Hoboken, New Jersey .
July 8 – Battle of Monterey : Acting on instructions from Washington, D.C. , Commodore John Drake Sloat orders his troops to occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena thus beginning the United States annexation of California .
August 11 – Establishment of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
September 21–24 – Battle of Monterrey : General Pedro de Ampudia and the Mexican Army of the North are defeated by General Zachary Taylor 's Army of Occupation , comprising U. S. Regulars , U. S. Volunteers and Texas Rangers . The battle ends after three days of fighting with 120 U. S. soldiers killed, 360 wounded, and 43 missing. The Mexicans suffer 367 killed and wounded.
November 30 – The Donner Party becomes snowbound.
December 29 – Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state (see History of Iowa ).
January 9 – Verner Clarges , silent film actor (died 1911 )
January 26 – Benjamin Franklin Keith , vaudeville theatre owner (died 1914 )
January 27 – Meriwether Lewis Clark Jr. , founder of the Kentucky Derby (died 1899 )
February 2 – Francis Marion Smith , borax magnate (died 1931 )
February 10 – Ira Remsen , chemist (died 1927 )
February 26 – William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody , frontiersman, later showman (died 1917 )
March 4 – Franklin J. Drake , admiral (died 1929 )
March 15 – James D. Moffat , 3rd president of Washington & Jefferson College (died 1916 )
March 20 – Rebecca Richardson Joslin , writer, lecturer, benefactor, clubwoman (died 1934 )
March 22 – James Timberlake , lawman (died 1891 )
April 13 – Lucius E. Johnson , railroad executive (died 1921 )
April 14 – Henry Overholser , businessman (died 1915 )
May 18 – Anna Morton , Second Lady of the United States as wife of Levi P. Morton (died 1918 )
May 22 – Rita Cetina Gutiérrez , teacher, poet and activist (died 1908 )
June 8 – Lucien Baker , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1895 till 1901 (died 1907 )
June 10 – Henry B. Quinby , governor of New Hampshire (died 1924 )
June 11 – William Louis Marshall , general, engineer (died 1920 )
June 13 – Rose Cleveland , Acting First Lady of the United States (died 1918 in Italy )
June 30 – Frances Margaret Milne , author and librarian
July 5 – Christian Reid (pen name of Frances Christine Fisher Tiernan), author (died 1920)
July 26 – Texas Jack Omohundro , frontier scout, actor and cowboy (died 1880 )
August 2 – Abram J. Buckles , soldier and jurist (died 1915 )
August 5 – Louise Manning Hodgkins , educator, author and editor (died 1935 )
August 15 – Albert J. Hopkins , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1903 to 1909 (died 1922 )
August 18 – Robley Dunglison Evans , admiral (died 1912 )
August 23 – Alexander Milne Calder , sculptor (died 1923 )
August 25 – John Thornton , U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1910 to 1915 (died 1917 )
September 4 – Daniel Burnham , architect and urban designer (died 1912)
September 7 – John Porter Merrell , admiral (died 1916 )
September 14 – George B. Selden , patent lawyer and inventor (died 1922)
September 25 – Watson Heston , cartoonist (died 1905 )
October 6 – George Westinghouse , entrepreneur, engineer (died 1914)
October 26 – Lewis Boss , astronomer (died 1912 )
November 25 – Carrie Nation , temperance advocate (died 1911)
December 1 – William Henry Holmes , anthropologist, archaeologist, geologist and museum director (died 1933 ) Neil Burgess , comedian (died 1910 )John Denny , buffalo soldier and Medal of Honor recipient (died 1901 )Pugsey Hurley , British-born burglar, river pirate and underworld figure in New York CityPeter Remondino , Italian-born physician, author, first president of the San Diego Board of Health, and co-founder of San Diego's first private hospital (died 1926 )Mary Foot Seymour , businesswoman and writer (died 1893 )Thomas Shaw , buffalo soldier and Medal of Honor recipient (died 1895 )Thomas Wakeman , founder of the first Sioux Indian YMCA (died 1886 )James E. Ware , architect, originator of the "dumbbell plan" for New York City tenements (died 1918)
January 5 – Alfred Thomas Agate , artist, painter, and miniaturist (born 1812 )
March 24 – William Lee D. Ewing , U.S. Senator from Illinois in 1834 (born 1795 )
May 10 – Jane Irwin Harrison , Acting First Lady of the United States (born 1804 )
May 13 – Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton , poet (born 1759 )
August 11 – John Caspar Wild , landscape painter and lithographer (born 1804 in Switzerland)
August 15 – Samuel Humphreys , naval architect (born 1778 )
September 4 – James Alexander, Jr. , U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1837 to 1839 (born 1789 )
September 15 – Jacques Dupré , Louisiana State Representative, State Senator and Governor (born 1773 )
September 16 – Samuel A. Foote , 28th Governor of Connecticut from 1834 to 1835, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1827 to 1833 (born 1780 )
October 3 – Benjamin Waterhouse , physician (born 1754 )
November 13 – William Findlay , 4th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1817 to 1820, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania from 1821 to 1827 (born 1768 )
December 30 – Alexander Barrow , U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1841 to 1846 (born 1801 )
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