Timeline January 1846

Events in January 1846 3

• 1846 Dostoevsky publishes Poor Folk Debut novel makes Dostoevsky's name Fyodor Dostoevsky's first novel, an epistolary story of poverty in St Petersburg, appeared in the Petersburg Miscellany. The critic Vissarion Belinsky praised it highly and its young author became famous overnight.
• 1846 Dickens launches the Daily News New Liberal London daily edited by Charles Dickens The first issue of the Daily News appeared in London with Charles Dickens as editor. Dickens left after a few weeks, but the paper went on to become one of Britain's leading Liberal newspapers.
• 1846 Battle of Aliwal British defeat Sikh army on the Sutlej British forces under Sir Harry Smith defeated a Sikh army at Aliwal during the First Anglo-Sikh War. The victory removed the Sikh threat to Ludhiana and set up the war's final battle.