Notable Historical Events - 1843
1843 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 2 |
Wagner's opera "Der Fliegende Holländer" premieres, Dresden |
Jan 4 |
Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Don Pasquale," premieres in Paris |
Jan 4 |
Royal Academy (Technical Hague court) Delft opens |
Feb 2 |
US & British settlers in Oregon Country choose government committee |
Feb 6 |
The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City). |
Feb 11 |
Opera "I Lombardi," premieres in Milan |
Mar 3 |
Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs" by the US |
Mar 7 |
1st Catholic governor in US, Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office |
Mar 14 |
Boston conducts its 1st town meeting (Faneuil Hall) |
May 4 |
Great Britain annexes Natal |
May 18 |
United Free Church of Scotland forms |
May 22 |
1st wagon train, 1000+ depart Independence Missouri for Oregon |
Jun 1 |
It snows in Buffalo & Rochester NY & Cleveland Ohio |
Jun 1 |
Sojourner Truth leaves NY to begin her career as antislavery activist |
Jun 24 |
Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside ghetto in Italy |
Jun 26 |
Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony |
Jul 2 |
An alligator falls from sky during a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina |
Jul 5 |
Committee of 9 appointed to establish civil government in Oregon Country |
Jul 12 |
Mormon leader Joseph Smith says God allows polygamy |
Jul 19 |
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 8 |
Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony |
Aug 15 |
National black convention meets (Buffalo NY) |
Aug 15 |
Tivoli Park in Copenhagen opens |
Aug 26 |
Charles Thurber patents a typewriter |
Aug 30 |
1st blacks participation in natl political convention (Liberty Party) |
Aug 31 |
Liberty Party nominates James Birneyas presidential candidate |
Oct 1 |
News of the World began publication in London. |
Oct 13 |
B'nai B'rith founded (NY) |
Oct 14 |
British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy |
Oct 16 |
Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers. |
Oct 20 |
1st Chinese immigrant arrives in Suriname |
Nov 13 |
Mt Rainier in Washington State erupts |
Nov 27 |
Opera "Bohemian Girl" is produced (London) |
Nov 28 |
Ka Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day - The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation. |
Dec 1 |
1st chartered mutual life insurance company opens |
Dec 4 |
Manila paper (made from sails, canvas & rope) patented, Mass |
Dec 4 |
Robert Schumann's "Das Paradies und die Peri" premieres in Leipzig |
Dec 6 |
Amsterdam-Utrecht railway opens |
Dec 19 |
"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published, 6,000 copies sold |
Dec 25 |
1st theatre matinee (Olympic Theatre, NYC) |
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