Timeline September 1845

Events in September 1845 5

• 1779 – 1845 Joseph Story (1779-1845) Died 10 September 1845, aged 65 Joseph Story served as an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court from 1812 until his death. He wrote the Court's opinion in the Amistad case. His Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States became a classic of American legal scholarship.
• 1814 – 1845 Thomas Davis (1814-1845) Died 16 September 1845, aged 30 Thomas Davis was an Irish writer and the leading figure of the Young Ireland movement. He co-founded The Nation newspaper. He wrote the ballad A Nation Once Again.
• 1845 Faraday effect discovered Magnetism shown to affect light Michael Faraday found that a magnetic field rotates the plane of polarised light passing through glass. It was the first experimental evidence of a link between light and electromagnetism. The discovery helped lay the ground for Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light.
• 1845 Potato blight reaches Ireland Start of the Great Famine The water mould Phytophthora infestans destroyed much of Ireland's potato crop in the autumn of 1845, after appearing in continental Europe that summer. Most of the Irish rural poor depended on the potato for food. The failures that followed caused about a million deaths and drove more than a million people to emigrate over the next several years.
• 1845 Knickerbocker Base Ball Club founded Early written rules of baseball The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club was organised in New York, and its members adopted a written set of playing rules. The Knickerbocker rules introduced features such as foul lines and the tag-out instead of hitting runners with the ball. They shaped the development of modern baseball.