Timeline March 1846

Events in March 1846 4

• 1784 – 1846 Friedrich Bessel (1784-1846) Died 17 March 1846, aged 61 Bessel was a German astronomer and mathematician. In 1838 he made the first reliable measurement of the distance to a star, 61 Cygni, using parallax. The Bessel functions are named after him.
• 1846 Kraków Uprising Polish nationalist revolt in the Free City of Kraków Polish nationalists rose in Kraków in an attempt to start a wider insurrection for independence. Austrian troops crushed the revolt within days, and in neighbouring Galicia peasants turned on the Polish nobility in the massacres known as the Galician slaughter.
• 1846 Treaty of Lahore Sikh Empire cedes territory to the British The treaty ended the First Anglo-Sikh War. The Sikh state gave up the Jullundur Doab, agreed to pay a large indemnity and accepted a British Resident at Lahore.
• 1846 Treaty of Amritsar Britain sells Kashmir to Gulab Singh The East India Company transferred Kashmir and neighbouring territories to Gulab Singh of Jammu for 7.5 million rupees. The treaty created the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir.