Timeline October 1846

Events in October 1846 2

• 1846 Affair of the Spanish Marriages Royal weddings strain Anglo-French relations Queen Isabella II of Spain married her cousin Francisco de Asís, and her sister Luisa Fernanda married the Duke of Montpensier, son of Louis-Philippe. Britain saw the double wedding as a French dynastic manoeuvre, and the Entente Cordiale broke down.
• 1846 Discovery of Triton Neptune's largest moon found The English astronomer William Lassell found Triton just 17 days after Neptune itself was discovered. It is the only large moon in the Solar System that orbits in the direction opposite to its planet's rotation.