1841

1841 (MDCCCXLI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1841st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 841st year of the 2nd millennium, the 41st year of the 19th century, and the 2nd year of the 1840s decade. As of the start of 1841, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1810s  1820s  1830s  – 1840s –  1850s  1860s  1870s
Years:	1838 1839 1840 – 1841 – 1842 1843 1844

1841 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1841 MDCCCXLI
Ab urbe condita	2594
Armenian calendar	1290 ԹՎ ՌՄՂ
Assyrian calendar	6591
Balinese saka calendar	1762–1763
Bengali calendar	1248
Berber calendar	2791
British Regnal year	4 Vict. 1 – 5 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2385
Burmese calendar	1203
Byzantine calendar	7349–7350
Chinese calendar	庚子年 (Metal Rat) 4537 or 4477     — to — 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 4538 or 4478
Coptic calendar	1557–1558
Discordian calendar	3007
Ethiopian calendar	1833–1834
Hebrew calendar	5601–5602
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1897–1898
- Shaka Samvat	1762–1763
- Kali Yuga	4941–4942
Holocene calendar	11841
Igbo calendar	841–842
Iranian calendar	1219–1220
Islamic calendar	1256–1257
Japanese calendar	Tenpō 12 (天保１２年)
Javanese calendar	1768–1769
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4174
Minguo calendar	71 before ROC 民前71年
Nanakshahi calendar	373
Thai solar calendar	2383–2384
Tibetan calendar	阳金鼠年 (male Iron-Rat) 1967 or 1586 or 814     — to — 阴金牛年 (female Iron-Ox) 1968 or 1587 or 815

Events

• January 26 – The United Kingdom occupies Hong Kong. Later during the year, the first census of the island recorded a population of about 7,500.
• February 10 – The Province of Canada is made after Upper Canada and Lower Canada are combined.
• February 18 – The first ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate begins and lasts until March 11.
• March 4 – Martin Van Buren, President of the United States is succeeded by William Henry Harrison.
• March 9 – The US Court rules in the Amistad case that the Africans who took over the ship had been taken into slavery illegally.
• April 4 – US President William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia becoming the first President of the United States to die in office and at one month, the elected president with the shortest term served. He is succeeded by Vice President John Tyler.
• August 16 – U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
• September 24 – United Kingdom takes over Sarawak from Brunei; James Brooke is elected rajah
• November 13 – James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he

eventually calls hypnosis.

• Queen's University is founded in Kingston, Canada, by Rev. Thomas Liddell, who carried a Royal Charter from Queen Victoria and became the school's first Principal.
• Fordham University is founded in The Bronx by the Society of Jesus. Its name at founding is St. John's College.
• With the help of industrial espionage, August Borsig builds the first German locomotives.

Births

• January 7 – Bernadette Soubirous, a visionary from Lourdes. (died 1879)
• January 14 – Berthe Morisot, French painter (died 1895)
• January 25 – Jackie Fisher, British admiral (died 1920)
• January 28 – Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh explorer and journalist (died 1904)
• February 2 – François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (died 1912)
• February 4 – Clément Ader, French engineer, inventor, and airplane pioneer (died 1926)
• February 25 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter (died 1919)
• March 8 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice (died 1935)
• April 13 – Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (died 1905)
• May 10 – James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (died 1918)
• July 29 – Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Norwegian doctor and scientist (d. 1912)
• August 25 – Emil Kocher, Swiss medical researcher who was given the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1917)
• September 8 – Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (died 1904)
• September 28 – Georges Clemenceau, French statesman (died 1929)
• October 7 – King Nicholas I of Montenegro (died 1921)
• October 16 – Prince Hirobumi Ito, Japanese governor of Korea (died 1909)
• November 6 – Nelson W. Aldrich, Senator from Rhode Island (died 1915)
• November 9 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (died 1910)
• November 20 – Wilfrid Laurier, seventh Prime Minister of Canada (died 1919)
• December 6 – Frédéric Bazille, French painter (died 1870)
• December 20 – Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist who was given the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1932)

Deaths

• February 17 – Ferdinando Carulli, Italian guitarist
• March 1 – Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (born 1764)
• April 4 – William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States (born 1773)
• April 28 – Peter Chanel, French Roman Catholic missionary (martyred) (born 1803)
• May 20 – Joseph Blanco White, British theologian (born 1775)
• May 23 – Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (born 1765)
• June 1 – David Wilkie, Scottish artist (born 1785)
• June 1 – Nicolas Appert, French inventor (born 1749).
• August 24 – Theodore Edward Hook, English writer (born 1788)

Art, music, theatre, and literature

• June 28 – Giselle premieres in Paris