1843

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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

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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

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.
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.

May 4 - Natal is proclaimed a British colony.
May 18 - The disruption of the Church of Scotland takes place in Edinburgh.
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.

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.

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 - Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling is first published.
November 28 - Ka La Ku'oko'a (Hawaiian Independence Day): The Kingdom of Hawai`i is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
December 19 - Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is first published.

The world's first commercial Christmas cards are printed by Sir Henry Cole in London.
James Joule quantifies the conversion of work into heat.
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.
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.