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.
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)
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