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* [[January 28]]: The | * [[January 28]]: The [[Alabama Legislature]] began meetings in [[Tuscaloosa]] that resulted in the choice of [[Montgomery]] as the new state capital. | ||
===Business=== | ===Business=== | ||
Revision as of 16:03, 25 February 2012
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
Individuals
- August 9: William Browne married the former Margaret Elizabeth Stevens of Tuscaloosa.
- 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
- May 27: William Berney, banker
- October 13: Edward M. Tutwiler, developer and co-founder of Leeds
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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