1845 in History

Polk takes office supporting completion of Texas annexation

Texas Constitutional Convention votes to accept the United States annexation proposal

Texas voters approve annexation, the annexation ordinance and the proposed state constitution

Texas Congress gives consent to the United States annexation proposal

Texas is admitted to the Union as the 28th state

Polk signs the resolution admitting Texas to the Union as the 28th state

Joins the Army of the Sutlej and commands the Bengal Engineers at the Battle of Mudki

Funeral of Andrew Jackson

Polk forms his cabinet after taking office as President of the United States

Promulgates legislation encouraging settlement and agricultural development in southern Chile.

Davis takes his seat in Congress

Polk asks Congress to reduce tariff rates and restore the independent treasury system

The Jean-Baptiste Nothomb Government ends in Brussels, concluding this period as head of the Belgian government.

Polk begins a highly disciplined one term administration centered on defined policy goals

French authorities expel Marx following pressure from the Prussian government.

Birth of Georg Cantor

Marx settles in Brussels and continues his political and economic studies.

Patents the pneumatic tyre

Appointed President of the provisional government after the Marcist Revolution

Appointed President of Ecuador

Inaugurated President of the USA, 11th President

SS Great Britain departs Liverpool for New York on her first transatlantic voyage.

SS Great Britain is completed and prepared for transatlantic passenger service.

SS Great Britain reaches New York after becoming the first iron steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.

Florida becomes the 27th State of the Union

Marx and Engels study British industry, political economy and working-class organisation.

Begins the Sylvain Van de Weyer Government in Brussels and serves as head of the Belgian government.

Marx and Engels publish The Holy Family against the Young Hegelian critics.

Birth of John Sparrow David Thompson

Death of Charles Grey

Death of James Walter Grimston

Wounded at the Battle of Ferozeshah while storming the Sikh camp

Lal Singh commands Sikh troops at Ferozeshah in one of the fiercest engagements of the First Sikh War.

Joins the Army of the Sutlej and commands the Bengal Engineers at the Battle of Mudki

Lal Singh leads a Sikh army against British-led forces at Mudki during the opening battles of the First Sikh War.