1843 Calendar
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1843 Historical Event(s)
February 6, 1843
– The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
February 14, 1843
– The event that inspired the Beatles song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! is held in England.
February 25, 1843
– Provisional Cession of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands established by Lord George Paulet.
May 16, 1843
– The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri.
May 18, 1843
– The Disruption in Edinburgh of the Free Church of Scotland from the Church of Scotland.
May 22, 1843
– Thousands of people and their cattle head west via wagon train from Independence, Missouri to what would later become the Oregon Territory. It is part of the Great Migration. They follow what is now known as the Oregon Trail.
October 1, 1843
– The News of the World tabloid begins publication in London.
October 13, 1843
– In New York City, Henry Jones and 11 others found B'nai B'rith (the oldest Jewish service organization in the world).
October 16, 1843
– Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
November 28, 1843
– Ka Lā Hui: Hawaiian Independence Day – The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
Who Were Born On 1843?
February 3, 1843
– William Cornelius Van Horne, American-born railway pioneer and executive (d. 1915)
April 25, 1843
– Alice of the United Kingdom, Grand Duchess of Hesse (d. 1878)
May 21, 1843
– Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician (d. 1914)
June 3, 1843
– Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912)
June 9, 1843
– Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist, Nobel laureate (d. 1914)
June 15, 1843
– Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (d. 1907)
August 1, 1843
– Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln; 35th United States Secretary of War (d. 1926)
August 5, 1843
– James Scott Skinner, Scottish composer (d. 1927)
November 19, 1843
– Richard Avenarius, German philosopher (d. 1896)
November 27, 1843
– Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)