Information about 1843
| Centuries: | 18th century - 19th century - 20th century |
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| Years: | 1840 1841 1842 - 1843 - 1844 1845 1846 |
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Events of 1843
January - March
- 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! is held.
- March 15 - Victoria, British Columbia, was founded by the Hudson's Bay Company as a trading post and fort.

July 19: SS Great Britain launch.
April - June
- May 4 - Natal proclaimed a British colony
- 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.
- May 23 - Chile takes possession of the Strait of Magellan.
July - September
- 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, opened in Copenhagen, Denmark.
October - December
- 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.
- December 19 - First publication of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
Undated
- The world's first commercial Christmas cards are printed by Sir Henry Cole in London.
- James Joule quantifies the conversion of work into heat
- In Barbados, Samuel Jackman Prescod, is the first black person elected to the Barbados 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
| Gregorian calendar | 1843 MDCCCXLIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2596 |
| Armenian calendar | 1292 ԹՎ ՌՄՂԲ |
| Bah' calendar | -1 – 0 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2387 |
| Chinese calendar | 4479/4539-7-28 (壬寅年七月廿八日) — to — 4480/4540-7-7(癸卯年七月初七日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1559 – 1560 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1835 – 1836 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5603 – 5604 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1898 – 1899 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1765 – 1766 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4944 – 4945 |
| Holocene calendar | 11843 |
| Iranian calendar | 1221 – 1222 |
| Islamic calendar | 1259 – 1260 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenpō 0 (天保0年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2503 (皇紀2503年) |
| Julian calendar | 1888 |
| Korean calendar | 4176 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2386 |
January - June
- January 8 - John H. Moffitt, American politician (d. 1926)
- 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 - December
- 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 20 - Christina Nilsson,Swedish operatic soprano (d. 1921)
- 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)
- date unknown - Owon, Korean painter (d. 1897)
- probable - Pierre Lallement, French inventor of the bicycle (d. 1891)
Deaths
January - June
- 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 1
- William Abbot, English actor (b. 1798)
- Marta Riccardo, Spanish writer (b. 1801)
- June 6 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (b. 1770)
July - December
- 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)
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Explorations
Excavations
- Amateur excavations of Jordan Hill Roman Temple, Dorset
Publications
- Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens with illustrations by Frederick Catherwood
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Writing about cricket in particular, John Leach (2005a) has explained the role of Puritan power, the Civil War, and the Restoration of the monarchy in England.
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- February 25 - The Grand Duke of Hesse and Grand Duke of Baden in present day Germany agree to construct the Main-Neckar-Eisenbahn from Heidelberg to a connection
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- January 19 - Mount Allison University is founded
- December 9 - Bishop's University is founded
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- January - Daniel O'Connell proclaims 1843 as the "Repeal Year".[1]
- 21 February - Repeal (of the Act of Union) debate in Dublin Corporation.
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