Timeline November 1846

Events in November 1846 3

• 1789 – 1846 Friedrich List (1789-1846) Died 30 November 1846, aged 57 List was a German economist who argued for a national system of protective tariffs and for railway building. His ideas influenced the Zollverein and industrial policy in Germany and the United States.
• 1846 Donner Party trapped in the Sierra Nevada Emigrant wagon train snowbound A group of California-bound emigrants was stopped by early snow near Truckee Lake in the Sierra Nevada. Nearly half died over the winter, and some survivors resorted to cannibalism.
• 1846 Austria annexes the Free City of Kraków Last remnant of independent Poland is absorbed After the failed uprising, Austria, Prussia and Russia agreed to end the Free City of Kraków. Austria annexed the city and incorporated it into its province of Galicia.