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August 15 – The Scott Monument to Sir Walter Scott in Edinburgh (Scotland) is inaugurated. [5] September 12 – The poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning marry privately in St Marylebone Parish Church, London, and depart for the continent a week later. [6] October 1 – Serial publication of Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son begins. [7]
A meeting of the Anti–Corn Law League in Exeter Hall in 1846. The Anti–Corn Law League was a successful political movement in Great Britain aimed at the abolition of the unpopular Corn Laws, which protected landowners’ interests by levying taxes on imported wheat, thus raising the price of bread at a time when factory-owners were trying to cut wages.
The orbit of the comet has a striking similarity with the orbit of the weak December sigma Virginids (#428) meteor shower, which peaks on 20–22 December, but seems to be active from December 1 to January 10. The shower seems to be the same as the epsilon Virginids (#513). The peak zenithal hourly rate is about 1.5 for visual meteors. [4] [5] [6]
Their low cost prints, which retailed between $0.15 and $3.00 depending on the size (equivalent to $4 and $72 in 2023, respectively), were found in homes and businesses across the country. [7] Currier and Ives's works mostly depicted religious, moralistic, and patriotic scenes, as well as idealized versions of rural life. [ 8 ]
[1] Generally, most contemporary critics praised the collection and considered it better than Hawthorne's earlier collection, Twice-Told Tales. [ 6 ] Regarding the second edition, published in 1854, Hawthorne wrote to publisher James T. Fields that he no longer understood the messages he was sending in these stories.
15 languages. العربية ... This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. ... Book series introduced in 1846 (1 P) 1846 books (3 C, 8 P) L ...
This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1846.. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain or of Ireland).
Thomas Hood, Poems [1] John Keble, Lyra Innocentium: Thoughts in verse on Christian children [1] Edward Lear, writing under the pen name "Derry Down Derry", A Book of Nonsense, also illustrated by Lear; expanded in 1855, [3] 1861, 1863 [1] etc. (See also, Nonsense Songs 1870, dated 1871, [1] More Nonsense 1872, [3] Laughable Lyrics 1877 [1]