1846

1846 (MDCCCXLVI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1846th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 846th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 19th century, and the 7th year of the 1840s decade. As of the start of 1846, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1810s  1820s  1830s  – 1840s –  1850s  1860s  1870s
Years:	1843 1844 1845 – 1846 – 1847 1848 1849

1846 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1846 MDCCCXLVI
Ab urbe condita	2599
Armenian calendar	1295 ԹՎ ՌՄՂԵ
Assyrian calendar	6596
Bahá'í calendar	2–3
Balinese saka calendar	1767–1768
Bengali calendar	1253
Berber calendar	2796
British Regnal year	9 Vict. 1 – 10 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2390
Burmese calendar	1208
Byzantine calendar	7354–7355
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4542 or 4482     — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4543 or 4483
Coptic calendar	1562–1563
Discordian calendar	3012
Ethiopian calendar	1838–1839
Hebrew calendar	5606–5607
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1902–1903
- Shaka Samvat	1767–1768
- Kali Yuga	4946–4947
Holocene calendar	11846
Igbo calendar	846–847
Iranian calendar	1224–1225
Islamic calendar	1262–1263
Japanese calendar	Kōka 3 (弘化３年)
Javanese calendar	1773–1774
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4179
Minguo calendar	66 before ROC 民前66年
Nanakshahi calendar	378
Thai solar calendar	2388–2389
Tibetan calendar	阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 1972 or 1591 or 819     — to — 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 1973 or 1592 or 820

Events

• April 25 – The Mexican-American War starts.
• May 17 – The Saxophone is patented.

Births

• November 3 - Elizabeth Thompson, British painter