WHAT HAPPENED IN 1846.
Look what happened the 1846.

The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. Cartwright umpired. (19. June 1846)

The saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax in Paris, France. (24. June 1846)

Mexican–American War: American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the U.S. acquisition of California. (7. July 1846)

The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after James Smithson donates $500,000. (10. August 1846)

The Second Federal Republic of Mexico is established. (22. August 1846)

Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine. (10. September 1846)

Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning. (12. September 1846)

Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court. (14. September 1846)

Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette. (19. September 1846)

Astronomers Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune. (23. September 1846)

U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor capture the Mexican city of Monterrey. (25. September 1846)

Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, is discovered by English astronomer William Lassell. (10. October 1846)

William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome. (16. October 1846)

Trapped in snow in the Sierra Nevadas and without food, members of the Donner Party resort to cannibalism. (26. December 1846)

Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state. (28. December 1846)