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 1845 - 1847 (1 years)
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| 1 | 1845 | |
| 2 | 1846 | - 1846: UK - Repeal of the Corn Laws, Britain moves towards complete free trade
- 1846: UK - Electric Telegraph Company formed, 17 offices by 1854
- 1846: USA - Mexican-American War 1846-1848.
- 1846: USA - Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
- 1846: CA/UK - The Irish potato famine begins, marking a change in the composition of Irish immigrating to Canada from mostly rich, well-connected, respectable Protestants to vastly poor, ill-equipped, poorly-treated Catholics.
- 1846: CA - Mines north of Lake Superior are explored.
- 1846: CA - The new canal, from Lachine, overcomes a fall of 42 ft., in 8 1/2 miles, by two locks of 13 ft. and two of 8 ft. Equal fall of the whole river would wield 4,500,000 horse power.
- 1846: NL - Voedselschaarste in Drenthe
- 1846: NL - Emigratie naar Michigan (USA) uit Drenthe komt op gang. Eerste 56 Drenthen vertrekken.
- 16 May 1846: CA/UK - Under the leadership of British Prime Minister Robert Peel, the British Parliament repeals the Corn Laws, replacing the old Colonial mercantile trade system with Free Trade.
- 9 Jun 1846: CA - Burning of St. John's, Newfoundland.
- 12 Jun 1846: CA- Theatre burned at Quebec.
- 15 Jun 1846: CA/US/UK - Britain and United States settle the long-disputed boundary across the Columbia District or Oregon Country from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, by drawing the boundary across the mountains along the 49th Parallel to the Strait of Georgia, and leaving the Colony of Vancouver Island, established in 1843, intact.
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| 3 | 1847 | - 1847: UK - Flourens discovered the anesthetic properties of chloroform
- 1847: USA - Levi Strauss invents denim jeans
- 1847: UK - Hungarian Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
- 1847: CA - St. Lawrence canal system completed. Faster and cheaper than US system, but growing US railroads are now the real threat.
- 1847: CA - Typhus outbreak as over 3,000 immigrants arrive in Bytown (Ottawa) in the height of summer. The Rideau Canal is shutdown to prevent further spread of the outbreak. 167 die in quarantine.
- 1847: CA/US - Outbreak of measles among the Cayuse of the Pacific Northwest.
- 1847: NL - Een duur jaar, een 6 ponds roggebrood kost 67,5 cent.
- 30 Jan 1847: CA - Lord Elgin, Governor, arrives at Montreal.
- 1 Sep 1847: CA - Lord Elgin visits the immigrant 'fever' sheds at Pointe St. Charles, Montreal.
- 18 Oct 1847: CA - Telegraph Line from Quebec to London, Canada West, complete.
- 23 Oct 1847: CA - 65 immigrants die in a week at Pointe St. Charles neighbourhood of Montreal.
- 1 Nov 1847: CA - 9,634 deaths of immigrants since 1st Jan
- 19 Nov 1847: CA - The railway from Montreal to Lachine is opened.
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