8 December 1845 discovery of 5 Astraea

First steel bridge, William Fairbairn

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8 January 1845 Birth of Gyula Fényi in Sopron, Hungary

27 March 1845 Birth of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

9 July 1845, Birth of George Howard Darwin in Down House, Kent, England

16 August 1845 Birth of Gabriel Jonas Lippmann

1845 Birth of Ilya Ilich Mechnikov

1845 Birth of Francois Felix Tisserand