1843

1843 (MDCCCXLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1843rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 843rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 43rd year of the 19th century, and the 4th year of the 1840s decade. As of the start of 1843, 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:	1840 1841 1842 – 1843 – 1844 1845 1846

1843 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1843 MDCCCXLIII
Ab urbe condita	2596
Armenian calendar	1292 ԹՎ ՌՄՂԲ
Assyrian calendar	6593
Balinese saka calendar	1764–1765
Bengali calendar	1250
Berber calendar	2793
British Regnal year	6 Vict. 1 – 7 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2387
Burmese calendar	1205
Byzantine calendar	7351–7352
Chinese calendar	壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 4539 or 4479     — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 4540 or 4480
Coptic calendar	1559–1560
Discordian calendar	3009
Ethiopian calendar	1835–1836
Hebrew calendar	5603–5604
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1899–1900
- Shaka Samvat	1764–1765
- Kali Yuga	4943–4944
Holocene calendar	11843
Igbo calendar	843–844
Iranian calendar	1221–1222
Islamic calendar	1258–1259
Japanese calendar	Tenpō 14 (天保１４年)
Javanese calendar	1770–1771
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4176
Minguo calendar	69 before ROC 民前69年
Nanakshahi calendar	375
Thai solar calendar	2385–2386
Tibetan calendar	阳水虎年 (male Water-Tiger) 1969 or 1588 or 816     — to — 阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) 1970 or 1589 or 817

Events

• February 6 – The Virginia Minstrels perform the first minstrel show (Bowery Amphitheatre, New York City).
• February 8 – Earthquakes in Guadeloupe magnitude 8.5, 5000 people reported killed.
• 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 the House of Assembly.
• The Danish government re-establishes the althing in Iceland as an advisory body.
• The first tunnel under the 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.

Births

for more information, see Category:1843 births.

Deaths

for more information, see Category:1843 deaths.

• January 1 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (b. 1779)