1845

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1845:
Edgar Allan Poe published "The Raven and other Poems."
Margaret Fuller published "Woman in the Nineteenth Century."
Frederick Douglas published "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave."
In Europe books are being published by Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas, Benjamin Disraeli, Fyodor Dostovesky, and other major writers.
Friedrich Engels published "The Condition of the Working Class in England 1844"
The United States Congress approves the annexation of Texas.
Henry David Thoreau starts living on Walden Pond, Massachusetts.
Felix Mendelssohn gives a violin concerto in Leipzig.
Scientific America starts publication in the United States.
The Naval School in Annapolis MD opens with 50 students.
The beginning of the Great Irish Potato Famine (1844 to 1849)