1845 to 1849

1845

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jan 09 - In its pre-telegraph era, The Times, the newspaper in London which prides itself on getting the news by fastest means possible, publishes reports from Berlin (1 week old); New York (4 weeks old); Rio (6 weeks) and the Cape (8 weeks old)
apr 01 - The Washington-Baltimore telegraph line is commercialized.
may - Magnetic Telegraph Co. is formed in USA, and Electrical Telegraph Co, in Britain
aug 28 - Scientific American begins publication
dec 29 - U. S. President James Polk signs legislation making Texas the 28th state of the United States.
x - Postal reform bill lowers rates and regulates domestic and international service.
x - English Channel cable.
x - The typewriter ribbon.
x - Jean Foucault takes the first photograph of the sun.
x - Ireland's ? potato famine begins.
x - Edgar Allan Poe ?*¢ [b.1809-d.1849] writes "The Raven *"
x - The first public codes for electric telegraph used in USA. The system, compresses the length of messages, improves the transmission speed and provides some privacy to messages
x - Abby Kelly helps establish an influential newspaper in the Western Reserve The Antislavery Bugle (soon has 700 subscribers); joins fellow abolitionist Stephen Foster in Quaker marriage at the age of 34; moves to Salem, Ohio; has daughter Alla.

1846

jan 27 - Magnetic Telegraph Co. completes the link between New York and Philadelphia. The tariff is 25 cents per 10 words
feb - Irish Potato Famine reaches its worst
feb 19 - Texas formally joins the United States.
mar 27 - Jerry Finney, 15-year resident of Columbus, Ohio hotels, is kidnapped for allegedly being a fugitive slave and is sent to bondage in Kentucky. Outraged, Columbus residents eventually raise money to buy his freedom.
apr 25 - The Mexican-American War ?+ ignited as a result of disputes over claims to Texas boundaries. The outcome of the war [1848] fixed Texas' southern boundary at the Rio Grande River.
apr 27 - The first arrival of a train to Celje.
jun 19 - first baseball game under recognizable modern rules.
sep 23 - Discovery of Neptune by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle?.
dec 28 - Iowa becomes the 29th U.S. State.
x - |GERMANY| Zeiss begins manufacturing lenses.
x - Double cylinder rotary press produces 8,000 sheets an hour.
x - The Smithsonian Institute is founded in Washington.
x - Britian repeals the Corn Laws.
x - Pius IX + becomes pope ?+ [1878] [re.List of Popes]

1847

feb - Thomas Alva Edison, US inventor, born.
mar - Alexander Graham Bell, father of the telephone, born.
dec - Joseph Pulitzer, a newspaperman is born.
x - A Philadelphia newspaper rolls off a rotary printing press.
x - First use of telegraph as business tool.
x - |England| Bakewell constructs a "copying telegraph."
x - Ireland's potato famine ends.
x - The Bronte sisters publish; Jane Eyre * by Charlotte and Wuthering Heights * by Emily
x - Christian VIII of Denmark dies and Frederik becomes king.
x - Concern over the stability in the Helstat grows.
x - Otto von Bismarck starts his political life as a substitute delegate to the Prussian United Diet.
x - 4,000 miles of telegraph lines in Britain, established by the Electrical Telegraph Co.
x - |Paris| 500,000 photographic plates are sold
x - Marinioni's machine automatically printing the verso and recto of each sheet came into service in France for the newspaper La Presse.

1848

feb 23 - John Quincy Adams + dies in the Capitol Building, Washington, D.C.
mar 10 - Mexican-American War ?+ ends, expanding U.S. slave territory into Texas.
jul 19,20 - Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton call first Woman's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, New York to discuss the "social, civil and religious rights of women."
nov - Zachary Taylor defeats Lewis Cass in the U.S. presidential election
x - Forerunner of the Associated Press is founded in New York.
x - William Kelvin proposes an absolute scale of temperature.
x - Khaki is first used as a milatary color in India.
x - Johannes Rebmann and Ludwig Krapf (Germany) are the first Europeans to discover Kilimanjaro
x - Revolutions in France, Austrian Empire, Italy, and Germany
x - Marx publishes The Communist Manifesto *.
x - Gold is discovered in California.
x - At the urgings of the Eiderdanes, King Frederik of Denmark declares that Scleswig would be a full part of Denmark, having the same constition. The Germans in the area rebel setting up a provisional government for Schleswig-Holstein.
x - 2,000 miles of telegraph lines in USA, established by the Magnetic Telegraph Co.
x - The first marriage is performed via telegraph, for a bride in Boston and groom in New York. The transaction, like other business contracts conducted through the wire, is legally binding.

1849

mar 03 - Minnesota joins the United States
x - The photographic slide.
x - |FINLAND| Second, larger edition of the Kalevala is published by Elias Lonnrot.
x - Californian Gold Rush. Great Britain proclaims Vancouver Island a Crown Colony.
x - Attempts to create an all-German union collapses.
x - Prussian state telegraph service established
x - Julius Reuter's news agency uses homing pigeons to bridge the Aachen/Brussels gap between the German (Berlin-Aachen) and French (Paris-Brussels) telegraph lines.
x - Edgar Allan Poe ?*¢ [b.1809] dies
x - Denmark becomes constitutional monarchy
x - Joseph Fry makes the first chocolate bar