1843

1843 (MDCCCXLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1843rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 843rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 43rd year of the 19th century, and the 4th year of the 1840s decade. As of the start of 1843, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1810s  1820s  1830s  – 1840s –  1850s  1860s  1870s
Years:	1840 1841 1842 – 1843 – 1844 1845 1846

Events

• February 6 – The Virginia Minstrels perform the first minstrel show (Bowery Amphitheatre, New York City).
• February 8 – Earthquakes in Guadeloupe magnitude 8.5, 5000 people reported killed.
• 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.
• 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 the House of Assembly.
• The Danish government re-establishes the althing in Iceland as an advisory body.
• The first tunnel under the 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

for more information, see Category:1843 births.

January 29 - William McKinley, twenty-fifth President of the United States (d. 1901)

1843 Media

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  March 25: The Thames Tunnel, a pedestrian crossing underneath the River Thames in London, is opened to the public.

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  July 19: SS Great Britain launch

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  August 15: The Tivoli Gardens open in Denmark.

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  Bertha von Suttner, Nobel Peace Prize 1905

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  Camillo Golgi

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  Robert Koch

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  Portrait of en:Lydia Koidula. Circa 1865.

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  Queen Elisabeth of Wied

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  Marie-Madeleine Lachenais

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Deaths

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• January 1 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (b. 1779)