1843
1843 was a
common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
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February 6 - The
Virginia Minstrels perform the first
minstrel show (
Bowery Amphitheatre,
New York City).
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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
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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.
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July 19 - The
SS Great Britain is launched from
Bristol.
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August 15 -
Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact
amusement parks in the world, opened in
Copenhagen,
Denmark.
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October 13 - In
New York City,
Henry Jones and 11 others found
B'nai B'rith (the oldest
Jewish service organization in the world).
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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.
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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.
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January 10 -
Frank James, American outlaw (d.
1915)
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January 29 -
William McKinley, 25th
President of the United States (d.
1901)
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April 4 -
William Jackson, photographer (d.
1942)
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April 15 -
Henry James, American writer (d.
1916)
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May 21 -
Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1914)
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June 3 - King
Frederick VIII of Denmark (d.
1912)
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June 9 -
Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1914)
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June 15 -
Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (d.
1907)
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June 30 - Sir
Ernest Satow, British diplomat and scholar (d.
1928)
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July 7 -
Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1926)
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July 29 -
Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (d.
1901)
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August 1 -
Robert Todd Lincoln, American statesman and businessman (d.
1926)
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August 31 -
Georg von Hertling,
Chancellor of Germany (d.
1919)
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November 25 -
Henry Ware Eliot, American industrialist, philanthropist and the father of
T. S. Eliot (d.
1919)
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November 27 -
Cornelius Vanderbilt II, American railway magnate (d.
1899)
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December 11 -
Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, German physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1910)
*
Jang Seung-eop, Korean painter (d.
1897)
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Alexander Herrmann, German magician (d.
1896)
*
Pierre Lallement, French inventor of the
bicycle (d.
1891)
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January 11 -
Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (b.
1779)
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March 21 -
Robert Southey, English poet (b.
1774)
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March 25 -
Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Scottish clergyman (b.
1813)
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March 27 -
Karl Salomo Zachariae Von Lingenthal, German jurist (b.
1769)
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April 15 -
Noah Webster, American lexicographer (b.
1758)
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April 17 -
Samuel Morey, American inventor (b.
1762)
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June 6 -
Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (b.
1770)
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July 7 -
John Holmes, American politician (b.
1773)
*July or August -
Sequoyah, creator of the Cherokee syllabary (b. around
1767)
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December 18 -
Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, British Governor-General of India (b.
1748)
*
William Abbot, English actor (b.
1798)
