Presidency of James K. Polk
1845–1849 · Event
Mexican-American War (1846-48); Oregon Treaty; California acquired.
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Around 1845
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Industrial Revolution ends (1840)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Irish Potato Famine (1845)
- Revolutions of 1848 in Germany (1848)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)