What Happened in 1845 — Events, Births & Deaths

"The Raven" is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe.

Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.

Flagstaff War: Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi, chiefs Hōne Heke, Kawiti and Māori tribe members chop down the British flagpole for a fourth time and drive settlers out of Kororāreka, New Zealand.

Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.

New Zealand Legislative Council pass the first Militia Act constituting the New Zealand Army.

Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition depart from Greenhithe, England.

In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 students.

Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: Battle of Vuelta de Obligado.

Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Long in Jefferson, Georgia.

Having coined the phrase "manifest destiny" the previous July, journalist John L. O'Sullivan argued in his newspaper New York Morning News that the United States had the right to claim the entire Oregon Country.

The United States annexes the Republic of Texas and admits it as the 28th state.