1843
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| 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 List of state 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).
- 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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