1843

Year '1843' ('MDCCCXLIII') was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents

Events of 1843

January - March

April - June

July - September

October - December

Undated

Births

January - June

July - December

Deaths

January - June

July - December

Events of 1843

January - March

★ February 6 - The Virginia Minstrels perform the first minstrel show (Bowery Amphitheatre, New York City).

★ February 11 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera ''I Lombardi'' premieres in Milan

★ February 14 - The event that inspired the song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! is held.

★ March 15 - Victoria, British Columbia, was founded by the Hudson's Bay Company as a trading post and fort.

April - June

★ May 4 - Natal proclaimed a British colony

★ May 18 - The Disruption of the Church of Scotland took place in Edinburgh

★ May 22 - The first major wagon train headed for the northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri on the Oregon Trail.

★ May 23 - Chile takes possession of the Strait of Magellan.

July - September

★ July 1

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★ Ulysses S. Grant graduates from West Point 21st from a class of 39.

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★ John J. Peck graduates from West Point 8th from a class of 39.

★ July 19 - The SS Great Britain is launched from Bristol.

★ August 15 - Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opened in Copenhagen, Denmark.

October - December

★ October 13 - In New York City, Henry Jones and 11 others found B'nai B'rith (the oldest Jewish service organization in the world).

★ November 28 - Ka La Ku'oko'a: Hawaiian Independence Day. The Kingdom of Hawai`i was officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.

★ December 19 - First publication of Charles Dickens' ''A Christmas Carol''.

Undated

★ The world's first commercial Christmas cards are printed by Sir Henry Cole in London.

★ James Joule quantifies the conversion of work into heat

★ In Barbados, Samuel Jackman Prescod, is the first black person elected to the Barbados House of Assembly

★ Danish government re-establishes althing in Iceland as an advisory body

★ First tunnel under Thames is finished

★ Argentina supports Rosas of Uruguay and begins a siege of Montevideo

★ Quaternions are discovered by William Rowan Hamilton.

★ The Economist is first published.

★ Bishop's University is founded.

★ Abbeville is founded by descendants of Acadians from Nova Scotia.

★ First publication of Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart.

Births

January - June

★ January 8 - John H. Moffitt, American politician (d. 1926)

★ January 10 - Frank James, American outlaw (d. 1915)

★ January 29 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (d. 1901)

★ April 4 - William Jackson, photographer (d. 1942)

★ April 15 - Henry James, American writer (d. 1916)

★ May 21 - Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1914)

★ June 3 - King Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912)

★ June 9 - Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1914)

★ June 15 - Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (d. 1907)

★ June 30 - Sir Ernest Satow, British diplomat and scholar (d. 1928)

July - December

★ July 7 - Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1926)

★ July 29 - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (d. 1901)

★ August 1 - Robert Todd Lincoln, American statesman and businessman (d. 1926)

★ August 20 - Christina Nilsson,Swedish operatic soprano (d. 1921)

★ August 31 - Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1919)

★ November 25 - Henry Ware Eliot, American industrialist, philanthropist and the father of T. S. Eliot (d. 1919)

★ November 27 - Cornelius Vanderbilt II, American railway magnate (d. 1899)

★ December 11 - Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1910)

★ ''date unknown'' - Owon, Korean painter (d. 1897)

★ ''probable'' - Pierre Lallement, French inventor of the bicycle (d. 1891)

Deaths

January - June

★ January 11 - Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (b. 1779)

★ March 21 - Robert Southey, English poet (b. 1774)

★ March 25 - Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Scottish clergyman (b. 1813)

★ March 27 - Karl Salomo Zachariae Von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1769)

★ April 15 - Noah Webster, American lexicographer (b. 1758)

★ April 17 - Samuel Morey, American inventor (b. 1762)

★ June 1

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★ William Abbot, English actor (b. 1798)

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★ Marta Riccardo, Spanish writer (b. 1801)

★ June 6 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (b. 1770)

July - December

★ July 7 - John Holmes, American politician (b. 1773)

★ July or August - Sequoyah, creator of the Cherokee syllabary (b. around 1767)

★ December 18 - Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, British Governor-General of India (b. 1748)
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