Important Historical Events of the year 1845, Year 1845 in History

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What happened in the year 1845?

Date	Event
January 29, 1845	"The Raven" is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe.
March 1, 1845	United States President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
March 3, 1845	Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
March 11, 1845	Flagstaff War: Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi, chiefs Hone Heke, Kawiti and Māori tribe members chop down the British flagpole for a fourth time and drive settlers out of Kororareka, New Zealand.
March 13, 1845	Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
March 25, 1845	New Zealand Legislative Council pass the first Militia Act constituting the New Zealand Army.
May 19, 1845	Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition depart from Greenhithe, England.
May 30, 1845	The Fatel Razack coming from India, lands in the Gulf of Paria in Trinidad and Tobago carrying the first Indians to the country.
July 4, 1845	Henry David Thoreau moves into a small cabin on Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau's account of his two years there, Walden, will become a touchstone of the environmental movement.
July 19, 1845	Great New York City Fire of 1845: The last great fire to affect Manhattan begins early in the morning and is subdued that afternoon. The fire kills four firefighters and 26 civilians and destroys 345 buildings.
August 28, 1845	The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
September 9, 1845	Possible start of the Great Famine of Ireland.[7]
October 10, 1845	In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 students.
November 20, 1845	Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: Battle of Vuelta de Obligado.
December 2, 1845	Manifest Destiny: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James K. Polk proposes that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
December 27, 1845	Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Long in Jefferson, Georgia.
December 27, 1845	Having coined the phrase "manifest destiny" the previous July, journalist John L. O'Sullivan argued in his newspaper New York Morning News that the United States had the right to claim the entire Oregon Country.
December 29, 1845	The United States annexes the Republic of Texas and admits it as the 28th state.