1845
Nineteenth century midpoint
1845 is the year following 1844 and preceding 1846.
Like other four-digit years, it functions as a noun in 1845, an adjective the 1845 election, or shorthand for a vintage or model: an 1845 Bordeaux.
Years are reference points for dating events, documents, and artifacts.
Tennessee expansionist president
- Manifest DestinyBelief in justified American expansion
- Oregon TrailEmigrant route westward
- Mexican-American War1840s territorial conflict
- antebellumBefore a war's start
Republic of Texas · statehood · expansionism · Sam Houston · pioneers · settlers · wagon trains · frontier
Movement to end oppression
- slaveryOwnership of people
- famineSevere food shortage
- Irish Potato Famine1840s mass starvation event
- immigrationRelocating abroad permanently
suffrage · transcendentalism · Luddites · labor reform · temperance · utopian communities · Frederick Douglass · women's rights
Long-reigning British empress
- British EmpireVast colonial domain
- Gothic RevivalArchitectural return to medieval forms
- penny dreadfulsCheap Victorian horror serials
- workhouseInstitution housing poor laborers
Charles Dickens · gentility · etiquette · top hat · corset · gaslight · crinoline · Victorian morality
Electrical message system
- daguerreotypeFirst commercial photography method
- steam engineThermal vapor motor
- railroadsTrain transportation systems
- paddle steamerSteam-powered watercraft with rotating blades
clipper ships · steamboats · Morse code · penny-farthing · cotton gin · industrial machinery · gas lighting · printing press
Intuition-based idealist philosophy
- penny dreadfulsCheap Victorian horror serials
- Romantic poetryFeeling-centered literary movement
- operaTheatrical art combining song
- landscape paintingArt depicting natural vistas
Edgar Allan Poe · Alexandre Dumas · folk music · spiritualism
James K. Polk
Tennessee expansionist president
- Manifest DestinyBelief in justified American expansion
- Oregon TrailEmigrant route westward
- Mexican-American War1840s territorial conflict
antebellum · Republic of Texas · statehood · expansionism · Sam Houston · pioneers · settlers · wagon trains · frontier · Indian Territory
abolitionism
Movement to end oppression
- slaveryOwnership of people
- famineSevere food shortage
- Irish Potato Famine1840s mass starvation event
immigration · suffrage · transcendentalism · Luddites · labor reform · temperance · utopian communities · Frederick Douglass · women's rights · Seneca Falls
Queen Victoria
Long-reigning British empress
- British EmpireVast colonial domain
- Gothic RevivalArchitectural return to medieval forms
- penny dreadfulsCheap Victorian horror serials
Charles Dickens · workhouse · gentility · etiquette · top hat · corset · gaslight · crinoline · Victorian morality · Great Exhibition
telegraph
Electrical message system
- daguerreotypeFirst commercial photography method
- steam engineThermal vapor motor
- railroadsTrain transportation systems
paddle steamer · clipper ships · steamboats · Morse code · penny-farthing · cotton gin · industrial machinery · gas lighting · printing press · textile mills
transcendentalism
Intuition-based idealist philosophy
- penny dreadfulsCheap Victorian horror serials
- Romantic poetryFeeling-centered literary movement
- operaTheatrical art combining song
Edgar Allan Poe · Alexandre Dumas · landscape painting · folk music · spiritualism