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1843

Year '''1843''' ('''Roman numerals|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).

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 - Colony of Natal|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.
- June 6 - In Barbados, Samuel Jackman Prescod, is the first non-white person elected to the Barbados House of Assembly

July - September


- July 1
    - Ulysses S. Grant graduates from West Point 21st from a class of 39.
    - 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 (B'nai Brith)|Henry Jones and 11 others found B'nai B'rith (the oldest Jewish service organization in the world).
- November 11 - First publication of Hans Christian Andersen's ''The Ugly Duckling''.
- 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
- Denmark|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, Louisiana|Abbeville is founded by descendants of Acadians from Nova Scotia.
- First publication of Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart.
- The world does not end, contrary to prediction by American preacher William Miller (preacher)|William Miller.
- Germans from the Black Forest region of Southern Baden migrate to Venezuela
- Export of British textile machinery and other equipment is allowed.

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)|William Jackson, photographer (d. 1942)
- April 15 - Henry James, American writer (d. 1916)
- April 25 - Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, third child of Queen Victoria (d. 1878)
- 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 (linguist)|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


- 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 - William Abbot, English actor (b. 1798)
- June 6 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (b. 1770)

July - December


- July 7 - John Holmes (U.S. politician)|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) Category:1843| map-bms:1843 be-x-old:1843 simple:1843 zh-yue:1843年 bat-smg:1843

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