Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1845
Birthdays
- January 7 - King Ludwig III of Bavaria, (d. 1921)
- January 11 - Albert Victor Bäcklund, Swedish physicist (d. 1912)
- January 13 - Félix Tisserand, French Astronomer (d. 1896)
- January 14 - 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada
- February 15 - Elihu Root, American statesman
- February 25 - George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1918)
- March 3 - Georg Cantor, German mathematician (d. 1918)
- March 10 - Alexander III of Russia, (d. 1894)
- March 27 - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, German physicist
- April 24 - Carl Spitteler, Nobel laureate (d. 1924)
- May 12 - Gabriel Fauré, French composer (d. 1924)
- May 16 - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist
- May 25 - Lip Pike, American baseball player (d. 1883)
- May 30 - King Amadeo I of Spain, (d. 1890)
- June 7 - Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (d. 1930)
- June 9 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (d. 1914)
- June 18 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician
- June 22 - Tom Dula, American folk character (Tom Dooley) (d. 1868)
- July 4 - Thomas Barnardo, Irish humanitarian (d. 1905)
- July 18 - Tristan Corbière, French poet (d. 1875)
- August 9 - André Bessette, Canadian religious figure (d. 1937)
- August 10 - Abai Kunanbaev, Kazakh poet (d. 1904)
- August 16 - Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist
- August 20 - St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic Saint (d. 1916)
- August 22 - William Lewis Douglas, 42nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1924)
- August 24 - James C. Calhoun, American soldier
- August 25 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria, (d. 1886)
- August 26 - Mary Ann Nichols, English victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
- October 21 - Will Carleton, American poet (d. 1912)
- October 28 - Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (d. 1888)
- November 3 - Edward Douglass White, 9th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1921)
- November 4 - Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, Indian revolutionary (d. 1883)
- November 10 - Sir John Sparrow David Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1894)
- November 25 - José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Portuguese novelist (d. 1900)
- December 12 - Bruce Price, American architect (d. 1903)
- December 24 - King George I of Greece, (d. 1913)
Deaths
- February 13 - Henrik Steffens, Norwegian-German philosopher (b. 1773)
- April 2 - Philip Charles Durham, Royal Navy Admiral (b. 1763)
- May 12 - János Bacsanyi, Hungarian poet (b. 1763)
- June 8 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (b. 1767)
- July 12 - Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author (b. 1808)
- July 17 - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
- October 12 - Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist (b. 1780)
- December 3 - Gregor MacGregor, Scottish con-man (b. 1786)
Events
- January 1 - The Cobble Hill Tunnel in Brooklyn is completed.
- January 29 - "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe is published in the New York Evening Mirror.
- March 1 - President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
- March 3 - Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
- March 3 - For the first time the U.S. Congress passes legislation overriding a presidential veto.
- March 11 - The Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Māoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka because of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
- March 11 - British baker Henry Jones invents self-raising flour.
- March 13 - Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto is premièred in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
- March 17 - The rubber band is patented.
- May 20 - HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with 134 men under John Franklin sail from the River Thames in England, beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage. All hands are lost.
- July 4 - Near Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau embarks on a two-year experiment in simple living at Walden Pond (see Walden).
- August 6 - The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg.
- August 28 - Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue.
- September 23 - The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York.
- October 9 - The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
- October 10 - In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors.
- October 13 - A majority of voters in the Republic of Texas approve a proposed constitution, that if accepted by the U.S. Congress, will make Texas a U.S. state.
- November 29 - The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under General Guillaume-Henri Dufour.
- December 2 - Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
- December 6 - Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity is founded at Yale College.
- December 27 - Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Williamson Long in Jefferson, Georgia.
- December 29 - Texas is admitted as the 28th U.S. state.
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