1843

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  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • The world's first commercial Christmas cards are printed by Sir Henry Cole in London.
  • December 17 - First publication of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
  • James Joule quantifies the conversion of work into heat
  • In Barbados, the first black man, Samuel Jackson Prescod, is elected to 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.

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