1843

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

Year 1843 (MDCCCXLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1843

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 song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! is held.
• March 15 - Victoria, British Columbia, was founded by the Hudson's Bay Company as a trading post and fort.

April - June

• 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.
• May 23 - Chile takes possession of the Strait of Magellan.

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, opened in Copenhagen, Denmark.

October - December

• 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 11 - First publication of Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling.
• 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.
• December 19 - First publication of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

Undated

• The world's first commercial Christmas cards are printed by Sir Henry Cole in London.
• James Joule quantifies the conversion of work into heat
• In Barbados, Samuel Jackman Prescod, is the first black person elected to the Barbados 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.
• The world does not end, contrary to prediction by American preacher William Miller.
• Germans from the Black Forest region of Southern Baden migrate to Venezuela

Births

1843 in other calendars

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
Igbo calendar
- Ǹrí Ìgbò	843–844
Iranian calendar	1221–1222
Islamic calendar	1258–1259
Japanese calendar	Tenpō 14 (天保14年)
Juche calendar	N/A (before 1912)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4176
Minguo calendar	69 before ROC 民前69年
Thai solar calendar	2386

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)
• 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)

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)
• 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)
• December 11 - Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1910)
• date unknown - Owon, Korean painter (d. 1897)
• probable - Pierre Lallement, French inventor of the bicycle (d. 1891)

Deaths

January - June

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

July - December

• 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)