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).

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
  • 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 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.
• The world does not end on 1843 as first preached by William Miller, contrary to statements made by the prophet Daniel (8:14) in the Old Testament that gave the date for the Apocalypse to be in the year 1843 (corrected to be October 22,1844), where Jesus Christ went from the Holy Place to the Most Holy Place as understood later by the pre-Advent movement.

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
  • William Abbot, English actor (b. 1798)
  • 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)

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

1843

See also Category: 1843 deaths.af:1843

am:1843 እ.ኤ.አ. ar:1843 an:1843 ast:1843 az:1843 bn:১৮৪৩ map-bms:1843 be:1843 be-x-old:1843 bh:१८४३ bs:1843 br:1843 bg:1843 ca:1843 cv:1843 cs:1843 co:1843 cy:1843 da:1843 de:1843 et:1843 el:1843 es:1843 eo:1843 eu:1843 fr:1843 fy:1843 ga:1843 gd:1843 gl:1843 ko:1843년 hy:1843 hi:1843 hr:1843. io:1843 bpy:মারি ১৮৪৩ id:1843 ia:1843 os:1843 is:1843 it:1843 he:1843 jv:1843 ka:1843 csb:1843 sw:1843 ht:1843 (almanak gregoryen) la:1843 lb:1843 lt:1843 lmo:1843 hu:1843 mk:1843 mi:1843 mr:इ.स. १८४३ ms:1843 nah:1843 nl:1843 new:ई सं १८४३ ja:1843年 nap:1843 no:1843 nn:1843 nrm:1843 nov:1843 oc:1843 uz:1843 pi:१८४३ nds:1843 pl:1843 pt:1843 ksh:Joohr 1843 ro:1843 ru:1843 год se:1843 sq:1843 scn:1843 simple:1843 sk:1843 sl:1843 sr:1843 su:1843 fi:1843 sv:1843 tl:1843 tt:1843 te:1843 th:พ.ศ. 2386 tr:1843 uk:1843 vec:1843 wa:1843 zh-yue:1843年 bat-smg:1843