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1843

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Centuries: 18th century · 19th century · 20th century
Decades: 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s
Years: 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846
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1843 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1843
MDCCCXLIII
Ab urbe condita 2596
Armenian calendar 1292
ԹՎ ՌՄՂԲ
Chinese calendar 4539 – 4540
壬寅 – 癸卯
Ethiopian calendar 1835 – 1836
Hebrew calendar 5603 – 5604
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat 1898 – 1899
- Shaka Samvat 1765 – 1766
- Kali Yuga 4944 – 4945
Iranian calendar 1221 – 1222
Islamic calendar 1259 – 1260

1843 (MDCCCXLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).

Events

  • 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! held
  • March 15 - Victoria, British Columbia, was founded by the Hudson's Bay Company as a trading post and fort.
  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • The world's first commercial Christmas cards are printed by Sir Henry Cole in London.
  • December 17 - First publication of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
  • James Joule quantifies the conversion of work into heat
  • In Barbados, the first black 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.
  • First publication of Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart.

Births

Deaths

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

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