Years: 1840 1841 1842 - 1843 - 1844 1845 1846

Decades: 1810s 1820s 1830s - 1840s - 1850s 1860s 1870s

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1843 in art 1843 in literature 1843 in science 1843 in music 1843 in rail transport 1843 in sports List of state leaders in 1843 List of religious leaders in 1843

Events

• February 6 - The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
• February 11 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi premieres in Milan
• 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.
• 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 Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day. The Kingdom of Hawai`i was officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
• December 17 - First publication of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
• James Joule quantifies the conversion of work into heat
• In Barbados, the first colored man, Samuel Jackson Prescod, is elected to 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.

Births

• 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
• April 25 - Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
• June 3 - Frederick VIII of Denmark, King
• June 9 - Bertha von Suttner, winner of 1905 Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1914)
• June 15 - Edvard Grieg, composer (d. 1907)
• June 30 - Sir Ernest Satow, British diplomat and scholar in East Asia
• July 29 - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (d. 1901)
• August 1 - Robert Todd Lincoln, American statesman, businessman (d. 1926)
• November 27 - Elizabeth Stride, third confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
• November 27 – Cornelius Vanderbilt II, railway magnate (d. 1899)
• December 11 - Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (d. 1910)

Deaths

• March 25 - Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Scottish divine
• March 27 - Karl Salomo Zachariae Von Lingenthal, German jurist
• April 15 - Noah Webster, American lexicographer
• April 17 - Samuel Morey, American inventor
• June 6 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet, novelist, and dramatist
• July 7 - John Holmes, American politician
• William Abbot - English actor
• Francis Scott Key, writer of the "Star Spangled Banner"

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