1843 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).

Events

• 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! held
• 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 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.

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 (d. 1942)
• April 15 - Henry James, American writer (d. 1916)
• 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 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 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)
• Jang Seung-eop, Korean painter (d. 1897)
• Alexander Herrmann, German magician (d. 1896)
• Pierre Lallement, French inventor of the bicycle (d. 1891)

Deaths

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

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