Today in History for Year 1843

Months in Year 1843: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 42 of 42

Jan 2nd - Wagner's opera "Der Fliegende Holländer" premieres, Dresden
Jan 4th - Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Don Pasquale," premieres in Paris
Jan 4th - Royal Academy (Technical Hague court) Delft opens
Feb 2nd - US & British settlers in Oregon Country choose government committee
Feb 6th - The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
Feb 11th - Opera "I Lombardi," premieres in Milan
Mar 3rd - Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs" by the US
Mar 7th - 1st Catholic governor in US, Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office
Mar 14th - Boston conducts its 1st town meeting (Faneuil Hall)
Mar 21st - Preacher William Miller of Mass predicts the world will end today
May 4th - Great-Britain annexes Natal
May 18th - United Free Church of Scotland forms
May 22nd - 1st wagon train, 1000+ depart Independence Missouri for Oregon
Jun 1st - It snows in Buffalo & Rochester NY & Cleveland Ohio
Jun 1st - Sojourner Truth leaves NY to begin her career as antislavery activist
Jun 24th - Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside of ghetto in Italy
Jun 26th - Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony
Jul 2nd - An alligator falls from sky during a Charleston SC thunderstorm
Jul 5th - Committee of 9 appointed to establish civil government in Oregon Country
Religious Leader Joseph Smith Jr Jul 12th - Mormon leader Joseph Smith say God OKs polygamy
Jul 19th - Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and also becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.
Aug 8th - Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony
Aug 15th - National black convention meets (Buffalo NY)
Aug 15th - Tivoli Park in Copenhagen opens
Aug 26th - Charles Thurber patents a typewriter
Aug 30th - 1st blacks participation in natl political convention (Liberty Party)
Aug 31st - Liberty Party nominates James Birneyas presidential candidate
Oct 1st - News of the World began publication in London.
Oct 13th - B'nai B'rith founded (NY)
Oct 14th - British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy
Oct 16th - Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
Oct 20th - 1st Chinese immigrant arrives in Suriname
Nov 13th - Mt Rainier in Washington State erupts
Nov 27th - Opera "Bohemian Girl" is produced (London)
Nov 28th - Ka Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day - The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
Dec 1st - 1st chartered mutual life insurance company opens
Dec 4th - Manila paper (made from sails, canvas & rope) patented, Mass
Dec 4th - Robert Schumann's "Das Paradies und die Peri," premieres in Leipzig
Dec 6th - Amsterdam-Utrecht railway opens
Novelist Charles Dickens Dec 13th - "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published, 6,000 copies sold
Dec 19th - Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol," in England
Dec 25th - 1st theatre matinee (Olympic Theatre, NYC)

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 82 of 82

Jan 1st - Nikolay Nikolayevich Lodizhensky, composer
Jan 8th - Frederick Abberline, British police investigator (d. 1929)
Jan 8th - John H. Moffitt, American politician (d. 1926)
Jan 9th - Christiaan A Ulder, Curacao, composer (waltzes/tumbas)
Jan 10th - Frank James, American outlaw (d. 1915)
Jan 11th - Charles Yelverton O'Connor, Irish-Australian engineer (d. 1902)
Jan 20th - Pierre-Paul Cambon, French diplomat (Madrid, Constantinople, London)
Jan 23rd - Hans Heinrich XIV Hochberg, composer
Jan 29th - William McKinley, Niles Ohio, 25th US President (1897-1901), (d. 1901)
Feb 12th - John Graham Chambers, English athlete who wrote the Queensberry rules for boxing (d. 1883)
Feb 19th - Adelina Patti, Madrid Spain, opera soprano (Lucio)
Feb 22nd - Affonso de Escragnolle Taunay, France/Brazil writer (Inocencia)
Mar 2nd - Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy (d. 1911)
Mar 5th - William F Sudds, composer
Mar 6th - Artur Napoleao dos Santos, composer
Mar 8th - Per Jonas Fredrik Vilhelm Svedbom, composer
Mar 18th - Jules HPFX Vandenpeereboom, premier of Belgium (1899)
Apr 1st - Ludwig Enneccerus, German jurist
Apr 4th - Hans Richter, composer
25th US President William McKinley (Jan 29th) Apr 8th - Asger Hamerik, [Hammerich], composer
Apr 14th - Gustave Leon Huberti, composer
Apr 15th - Carl Eilhardt, composer
Apr 15th - Henry James, American/British author (Turn of the Screw, Bostonians), (d. 1916)
Apr 25th - Alice of the United Kingdom, Grand Duchess of Hesse (d. 1878)
May 2nd - Carl Michael Ziehrer, composer
May 6th - Grove Karl Gilbert, geologist, investigated Lake Bonneville, Utah
May 9th - Belle Boyd, spy (Confederate)/actress/lecturer
May 10th - Kaufmann Kohler, reform rabbi/theologian
May 10th - Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (d. 1920)
May 13th - Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer, Belgian politician
May 21st - Louis Renault, French lawyer
May 21st - Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician (d. 1914)
May 23rd - Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, composer
May 29th - Emile Pessard, composer
Jun 1st - Henry Faulds, Scottish fingerprinting pioneer (d. 1930)
Jun 3rd - Frederik VIII CWK, King of Denmark (1906-12)
Jun 7th - Susan Elizabeth Blow, US, pioneered kindergarten education
Jun 9th - Bertha von Suttner, Austria, novelist/pacifist (Nobel 1905)
Jun 10th - Heinrich von Herzogenberg, composer
Jun 15th - Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Bergen Norway, composer (Bewitched One)
Jun 16th - David Popper, composer
Jun 16th - Jan Malat, composer
Jun 19th - Charles Edouard Lefebvre, composer
Jun 30th - Ernest Mason Satow, British diplomat (d. 1929)
Jul 5th - Mandell Creighton, English bishop/historian
Nobel Laureat Physician Camillo Golgi (Jul 7th) Jul 7th - Camillo Golgi, Lombary Austrian Empire, physician/cytologist (Nobel 1906), (d. 1926)
Jul 29th - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (d. 1901)
Jul 31st - Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet (d. 1918)
Aug 1st - Robert Todd Lincoln, Capt (Union volunteers), died in 1926
Aug 4th - Flor van Duyse, composer
Aug 5th - James Scott Skinner, composer
Aug 23rd - William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (d. 1932)
Aug 26th - George August Lumbye, composer
Aug 29th - David B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910)
Aug 31st - Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1919)
Sep 4th - Charles Wentworth Dilke, English under minister of Foreign affairs
Sep 4th - Jan Levoslav Bella, composer
Sep 15th - Willem F Mauritius HK, prince of Orange/son of king Willem III
Sep 21st - David Emlyn Evans, composer
Sep 27th - Gaston Tarry, French mathematician (d. 1913)
Sep 29th - Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (d. 1882)
Oct 20th - Victor de Stuers, Dutch art connoisseur
Oct 21st - Mark M Antokolski, Russian/French sculptor (Peter the Great)
Oct 25th - Gleb Uspensky, Russia, author (Power of the Soil)
Oct 26th - Vasili V Vereshchagin, Russian painter (War & Peace)
Oct 30th - A G Henri Regnault, French water colors painter
Nov 2nd - Caryl Florio, composer, Pen-name of William James Rob John
Nov 2nd - Elek Erkel, composer
Nov 19th - Richard Avenarius, German philosopher (d. 1896)
Nov 23rd - Josef Sucher, composer
Nov 25th - Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist, philanthropist and the father of T. S. Eliot (d. 1919)
Nov 27th - Cornelius Vanderbilt II, American businessman (d. 1899)
Nov 27th - Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
Nov 28th - Manuel Gregorio Tavarez, composer
Nov 30th - Jozsef Kiss, Hungarian literary (Zsido Dalok)
Dec 6th - Albert de Vriendt, Flemish historical painter/etcher
Dec 11th - Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, cholera, Nobel 1905)
Dec 13th - George Stephanescu, composer
Dec 21st - Thomas Bracken, Irish-born New Zealand poet (d. 1898)
Dec 23rd - Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (d. 1924)
Dec 24th - Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (d. 1886)
Dec 29th - Elisabeth of Wied (pen name was Carmen Sylva), queen of Romania and writer (d. 1916)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 30 of 30

Jan 4th - Petronella Moens, Frisian author/poetess, dies at 80
Jan 7th - Franz Schoberlechner, composer, dies at 45
Jan 9th - Caroline Herschel, "1st lady of astronomy", dies at 98 in Germany
Jan 9th - William Hedley, British industrial engineer (b. 1773)
Jan 11th - Francis Scott Key, composer (Star Spangled Banner), dies at 63
Feb 15th - Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek military figure (b. 1770)
Mar 16th - Anton R Falck, Dutch minister of Education/Colonies, dies at 65
Mar 21st - Guadalupe Victoria, first President of Mexico (b. 1786)
Mar 21st - Robert Southey, English poet (b. 1774)
Mar 27th - Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1769)
Apr 14th - Joseph Franz Karl Lanner, Austria, composer/violist, dies at 42
Apr 17th - Samuel Morey, American inventor (b. 1762)
Apr 28th - William Wallace, Scottish mathematician (rights of Wallace), dies
May 12th - Johann Georg Lickl, composer, dies at 74
May 24th - Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician (b. 1765)
May 28th - Noah Webster, lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary), dies at 84
Jun 6th - Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet and dramatist (b. 1770)
Jun 22nd - Gabriele Prota, composer, dies at 88
Jul 2nd - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician, dies at 88
Lexicographer Noah Webster (May 28th) Jul 9th - Washington Allston, US painter/author, dies at 63
Jul 16th - Hubert MAJ van Asch van Wijck, politician, dies at 68
Jul 25th - Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (b. 1766)
Aug 10th - Jakob F Fries, German philosopher, dies
Sep 3rd - Cornelis PJ Elout, military/pres of West Sumatra, dies at 47
Sep 11th - Joseph Nicollet, mathematician and explorer (b. 1786)
Sep 19th - Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (b. 1792)
Oct 10th - Karl Theodor Toeschi, composer, dies at 75
Nov 29th - Marco Santucci, composer, dies at 81
Dec 12th - Willem I Frederik, King of Netherlands (1814-40), dies at 71
Dec 18th - Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, British Viceroy of India (b. 1748)