In history, year 1845 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1845.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 29 january | American poet Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven' appeared in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication attributed to Poe. |
| 13 march | German composer Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, one of the most popular and most frequently performed violin concertos of all time, was first played in Leipzig. |
| 19 march | Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition departed from Greenhi the, England; the entire 129-man complement would be lost. |
| 19 may | Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expeditiondeparted from Greenhithe, England; the entire 129-man complement wouldbe lost. |
| 28 august | The first issue of the popular science magazine Scientific American was published, currently the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. |
| 09 october | Anglican priest John Henry Newman, who wished to return theChurch of England to many Catholic beliefs, was formally received intothe Roman Catholic Church. |
| 20 november | Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata-The ArgentineConfederation were defeated in the Battle of Vuelta de Obligado, butChile and Brazil were inspired to join forces with them afterwards. |
| 27 december | John L. O'Sullivan, in his newspaper the New York Morning News, argued that the United States had the right to claim the entire Oregon Country 'by the right of our manifest destiny'. |
| 03 May | 1600 people died in a theater fire in Canton, China. |
| 04 June | The fight between Mexico and the US began. |
| 28 August | The first issue of the famous magazine Scientific American was published. |
| 11 December | First Anglo Sikh War started. |
| 29 December | Texas became the 28th state of the US. |
| 22 February | The Dutch East India Company bought Serampore and Balasore by the East India Company. |
| 26 March | Adhesive medicated plaster granted patent. |
| 27 March | Another German physicist and mathematician Velhelm Röntgen was born. He discovered a special ray x ray in 1895 AD. |
| 29 January | Published by Edgar Allan Poe for "The Raven" (New York Evening Mirror). |
| 28 February | The United States Congress approved the takeover of Texas. |
| 03 March | The United States Congress enacted a presidential veto law for the first time. |
| 20 April | Romon Castilla was made President of Peru. |
| 02 May | The collapse of a suspension bridge in Great Yarmwood, England, killed about 80 people, mostly children. |
| 01 June | Homaling Pigeon completed an 11,000-kilometer trip to Namibia-London in 55 days. |
| 14 July | The first postmasters final tickets were released. |
| 28 August | Scientific American magazine published its first copy. |
| 25 September | The Phi Alpha Literary Society was established. |
| 21 October | The New York Herald became the first newspaper to mention a game of baseball. |
| 04 November | The first uniform election day was celebrated in America. |
| 11 December | First Anglo-Sikh War: The Sikh army crossed the Sutlej River in Punjab. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 03 November | Edward Douglass White / Lawyer / United States of America |
| 04 July | Thomas John Barnardo / Philanthropist / Ireland |
| 09 June | Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 09 May | Gustaf de Laval / Engineer / Sweden |
| 10 August | Abai Qunanbaiuli / Poet / Kazakhstan |
| 12 December | Bruce Price / Architect / United States of America |
| 14 January | Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 14 January | Lord Lansdowne / Governor General / United Kingdom |
| 15 February | Elihu Root / Politician / United States of America |
| 15 August | Walter Crane / Illustrator / United Kingdom |
| 16 May | Élie Metchnikoff / Biologist / Ukraine |
| 16 February | George Kennan / Journalist / United States of America |
| 17 October | John J. Gardner / Politician / United States of America |
| 21 October | Will Carleton / Poet / United States of America |
| 21 June | Arthur Cowper Ranyard / Astronomer / United Kingdom |
| 22 November | Aleksander Kunileid / Educator / Estonia |
| 24 September | Nikolai Anderson / Author / Estonia |
| 25 February | George Reid / Politician / Scotland |
| 25 May | Lip Pike / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 27 March | Wilhelm Röntgen / Academic / Germany |