1846

1846 was 25 years before the founding of the City of Birmingham and the 27th year of Alabama statehood.

Events

• January 28: The Alabama Legislature began meetings in Tuscaloosa that resulted in the choice of Montgomery as the new state capital.

Business

• Shelby Furnace was blown in.

Works

Buildings

• Tuscaloosa County Courthouse

Individuals

• Benjamin F. Randall reclaimed the office of Shelby County Sheriff.
• Thomas Rowan purchased the 130-acre farm upon which he later built his home.

Births

• January 7: William Walker Jr, attorney
• April: Y. E. Holloway, physician
• May 27: William Berney, banker
• July 5: Edward Erswell, carpenter and undertaker
• July 15: William Rushton Sr, president of the Birmingham Board of Education
• October 13: Edward M. Tutwiler, developer and co-founder of Leeds
• November 9: Labor organizer and negotiator William Fairley was born in Leasingthorne, England.
• December 17: Andrew Adger, namesake of Adger

=Marriages

• February 11: John Tyler Morgan to Cornelia Willis of Talladega County.
• August 9: William Browne to Margaret Elizabeth Stevens of Tuscaloosa.

Deaths

• August 10: Goldsmith Hewitt, Sr, Revolutionary War veteran

Context

In 1846, Brigham Young began leading a migration of Mormons to the Great Salt Lake. The Mexican–American War began. Adolphe Sax received a patent for the saxophone. The planet Neptune was discovered. Iowa was admitted as a state.

Notable births in 1846 included Kentucky Derby founder M. Lewis Clark, frontiersman "Buffalo Bill" Cody, cowboy Texas Jack Omohundro, doctor & pioneering vegetarian Anna Kingsford, and temperance advocate Carrie Nation. Notable deaths included Emperor Ninko of Japan, mathematician & astronomer Friedrich Bessel, and Pope Gregory XVI.

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