1843
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This article is about the year 1843.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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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 |
| 1843 in topic: |
| Humanities |
| Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature – Music |
| By country |
| Australia – Canada – France – Germany – Mexico – South Africa – US – UK |
| Other topics |
| Rail Transport – Science – Sports |
| Lists of leaders |
| Colonial Governors – State leaders |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births – Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Works category |
| Works |
| Gregorian calendar | 1843 MDCCCXLIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2596 |
| Armenian calendar | 1292 ԹՎ ՌՄՂԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6593 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1–0 |
| Bengali calendar | 1250 |
| Berber calendar | 2793 |
| British Regnal year | 6 Vict. 1 – 7 Vict. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2387 |
| Burmese calendar | 1205 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7351–7352 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬寅年十二月初一日 (4479/4539-12-1) — to —
癸卯年十一月十一日(4480/4540-11-11) |
| Coptic calendar | 1559–1560 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1835–1836 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5603–5604 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1899–1900 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1765–1766 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4944–4945 |
| Holocene calendar | 11843 |
| Iranian calendar | 1221–1222 |
| Islamic calendar | 1258–1259 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenpō 14 (天保14年) |
| Korean calendar | 4176 |
| Minguo calendar | 69 before ROC 民前69年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2386 |
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Year 1843 (MDCCCXLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] 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 Beatles song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! is held in England.
- February 25 – The Provisional Cession of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands established by Lord George Paulet.
- March 15 – Victoria, British Columbia, is founded by the Hudson's Bay Company as a trading post and fort.
- March 21 – The world does not end, contrary to the first prediction by American preacher William Miller.
[edit] April–June
- April – Eta Carinae is temporarily the second-brightest star in the night sky.
- May 4 – Natal is proclaimed a British colony.
- May 18 – The Disruption in Edinburgh of the Free Church of Scotland from the Church of Scotland.
- May 22 – The first major wagon train headed for the American 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.
- June 6 – In Barbados, Samuel Jackman Prescod is the first non-white person elected to the House of Assembly.
[edit] 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, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- September 3 – Popular uprising in Athens, Greece, including citizens and military captains, to require from King Otto to issue a liberal Constitution to the state, which was governed since independence (1830) by various domestic and foreign centres of profits.
[edit] October–December
- October 16 – Søren Kierkegaard's philosophical book Fear and Trembling is first published.
- December 19 – Charles Dickens' novella A Christmas Carol is first published.
- December 21 – The first total solar eclipse of saros 139 occurs over southern Asia.
[edit] Date unknown
- Saint Louis University School of Law becomes the first law school west of the Mississippi River
- The world's first commercial Christmas cards are printed by Sir Henry Cole in London.
- James Joule quantifies the conversion of work into heat.
- Ada Lovelace translates and expands Menabrea's notes on Charles Babbage's analytical engine, including an algorithm for calculating a sequence of Bernoulli numbers, regarded as the world's first computer program.[1][2][3]
- The Danish government re-establishes the Althing in Iceland as an advisory body.
- The first tunnel under the Thames River 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.
- The Friend is first published.
- Bishop's University is founded.
- Abbeville, Louisiana is founded by descendants of Acadians from Nova Scotia.
- Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart is first published.
- Germans from the Black Forest region of Southern Baden migrate to Venezuela.
- The export of British textile machinery and other equipment is allowed.
[edit] Births
[edit] 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)
- February 19 – Adelina Patti, Spanish opera singer (d. 1919)
- April 4 – William Jackson, photographer (d. 1942)
- April 15 – Henry James, American writer (d. 1916)
- April 25 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, third child of Queen Victoria (d. 1878)
- 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)
[edit] 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)
- September 4 – Ján Levoslav Bella, Slovak composer (d. 1936)
- 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)
- November 29 – Gertrude Jekyll, British garden designer, writer and artist (d. 1932)
- December 11 – Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1910)
- December 28 – Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, American author of dime fiction (d. 1904)
[edit] Date unknown
- Owon, Korean painter (d. 1897)
- probable – Pierre Lallement, French inventor of the bicycle (d. 1891)
- Eliza Moore, last American to have been a slave (d. 1948)
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January–June
- January 11 – Antoine Bournonville, French ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1760)
- March 21
- Robert Southey, English poet (b. 1774)
- Guadalupe Victoria, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1786)
- March 25 – Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Scottish clergyman (b. 1813)
- March 27 – Karl Salomo Zachariae Von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1769)
- April 17 – Samuel Morey, American inventor (b. 1762)
- May 28 – Noah Webster, lexicographer (b. 1758)
- June 1 – William Abbot, English actor (b. 1798)
- June 6 – Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (b. 1770)
[edit] July–December
- July or August – Sequoyah, creator of the Cherokee syllabary (b. c. 1767)
- July 7 – John Holmes, American politician (b. 1773)
- July 14 – Miguel de Álava, Spanish soldier and statesman (b. 1770)
- September 11 – Joseph Nicollet, geographer (b. 1786)
- September 16 – Ezekiel Hart, Canadian entrepreneur & politician (b. 1770 or 1767)
- December 12 – King William I of the Netherlands (b. 1772)
- December 18 – Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, British Governor-General of India (b. 1748)
[edit] References
- ^ Fuegi, John; Francis, Jo (October–December 2003). "Lovelace & Babbage and the creation of the 1843 'notes'". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 25 (4): 16–26. doi:10.1109/MAHC.2003.1253887.
- ^ "Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace". http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/Files/ada-bio.html. Retrieved 2010-07-11.
- ^ Menabrea, L. F. (1843). "Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage". Scientific Memoirs 3. http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html. Retrieved 2010-10-01.
