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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. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January–March[edit] ·
January 20 – Charles Elliot of the United Kingdom,
and Qishan of
the Qing Dynasty,
agree to the Convention of
Chuenpi. ·
January 26 – Britain occupies Hong
Kong. Later in the year, the first census of the island records a population
of about 7,500.[1] ·
January 27 – The active volcano Mount Erebus in Antarctica is
discovered, and named by James Clark Ross.[2] ·
January 28 – Ross discovers the
"Victoria Barrier", later known as the Ross Ice Shelf. On the same voyage, he
discovers the Ross Sea, Victoria Land and Mount Terror. ·
January 30 – A fire ruins and destroys
two-thirds of the villa (modern-day city) of Mayagüez, Puerto
Rico. ·
February 4 – First known reference
to Groundhog Day in
North America, in the diary of a James Morris. ·
February 10 – The Act of Union (British
North America Act, 1840) is proclaimed in
Canada. ·
February 11 – The two colonies of The Canadas are merged, into the United Province
of Canada. ·
February 18 – The first ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate begins,
and lasts until March 11. ·
February 20 – The Governor
Fenner, carrying emigrants to the United States, sinks off Holyhead (Wales), with the loss of 123
lives. ·
February – El Salvador proclaims itself an
independent republic, bringing an end to the (already de facto defunct) Federal
Republic of Central America. ·
March 4 – William Henry
Harrison is sworn
in, as the ninth President of the United States. ·
March 9 – United
States v. The Amistad: The Supreme
Court of the United States rules in the case, that the
Africans who seized control of the ship had been taken into slavery illegally. ·
March 12 – SS President, commanded by
legendary captain Richard
Roberts ("I'd Go to Sea in a Bathtub"), founders in
rough seas, with all passengers and crew lost. April–June[edit] ·
April 4 – President William Henry
Harrison dies of pneumonia, becoming the first President of
the United States to die in office, and at one month, the American president
with the shortest term served. He is succeeded by Vice President John Tyler, who becomes the tenth President
of the United States. ·
April 6 – President John Tyler is sworn in. ·
May –
The Sino-Sikh War begins. ·
May 3 – New Zealand becomes a British
colony.[3] ·
May 11 – Lt. Charles Wilkes lands at Fort Nisqually in Puget Sound. ·
May 22 – 1841 rebellion in
Guria: The Georgian province of Guria revolts against the Russian Empire. ·
June 6 (Sunday) ·
The United Kingdom
Census is held, the first to record names and approximate
ages of every household member, and to be administered nationally. ·
Marian
Hughes becomes the first woman to take religious vows in communion with
the Anglican Province of
Canterbury, since the Reformation,
making them privately to E. B. Pusey in Oxford.[4] ·
June 21 – St. John's College
(later Fordham University)
is founded in The Bronx, by
the Society of Jesus. ·
June 28 – The ballet Giselle is first presented by
the Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique,
at the Salle Le Peletier in
Paris, France. July–September[edit]
July 18: Coronation of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil ·
July –
Scottish missionary David Livingstone arrives
at Kuruman in the Northern Cape, his first posting in Africa. ·
July 5 – Thomas Cook arranges his first railway
excursion, in England.[3] ·
July 17 – The first edition of the
humorous magazine Punch is published in London.[5] ·
July 18 (Sunday) ·
Emperor Pedro II of Brazil is crowned in Rio de Janeiro. ·
The
sixth bishop of Calcutta, Daniel Wilson,
and Dr. James Taylor, Civil Surgeon at Dhaka, establish the first modern
educational institution on the Indian subcontinent, Dhaka College. ·
July 20 – The Mercantile Agency
(ancestor of Dun & Bradstreet)
is founded in New York City, by Lewis Tappan. ·
August 11 – Frederick Douglass speaks
in front of the Anti-Slavery
Convention in Nantucket,
Massachusetts. ·
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. ·
August 20–October 16 – The Niger expedition
of 1841 begins sailing up the Niger River by paddle steamers, under the auspices of the
British Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade and the Civilisation of
Africa; it is largely abortive, due to the high incidence of disease among
the crews. ·
September 24 – Sarawak is
broken away from Brunei,
and becomes a protectorate of the United Kingdom; James Brookeis appointed rajah. October–December[edit] ·
October 10 – First Opium War: Battle of Chinhai –
British capture a Chinese garrison. ·
October 13 – First Opium War: British
occupy Ningbo. ·
October 16 – Queen's University is
founded in Kingston, Ontario,
by Rev. Thomas Liddell, who carries a Royal Charter from Queen Victoria, and becomes the school's
first principal. ·
October 30 – A fire at the Tower of London destroys its Grand
Armoury, and causes a quarter of a million pounds worth of damage.[6] ·
November – The settlement of Dallas, Texas is
founded by John Neely Bryan.[7] ·
November 13 – Scottish surgeon James Braid first
sees a demonstration of animal magnetism by Charles Lafontaine in Manchester, which leads to his study of the
phenomenon that he (Braid) eventually calls hypnotism. ·
December 23 – First Anglo-Afghan
War: At a meeting with the Afghan general Akbar Khan, British diplomat Sir William Hay
Macnaghten is shot dead at close quarters. Date unknown[edit] ·
John Augustus develops the concept
of probation. Ongoing[edit] ·
First Opium War (1839–42). ·
First Anglo-Afghan
War (1839–42). Births[edit] January–June[edit]
·
Hakeem Noor-ud-Din,
Muslim scholar, 1st Caliph of the Ahmadiyya
Muslim Community in Islam (d. 1914) ·
Kate Stone, American diarist (d. 1907) ·
January 14 – Berthe Morisot, French painter (d. 1895) ·
January 15 – Frederick
Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, English-Canadian politician, soldier
(d. 1908) ·
January 23 – Benoît-Constant
Coquelin, French actor,Cyrano de Bergerac (d. 1909) ·
January 25 – Jackie
Fisher, British admiral (d. 1920) ·
January 28 – Henry Morton Stanley,
Welsh explorer, journalist (d. 1904) ·
January 30 – Félix Faure, President of France (d. 1899) ·
February 2 – François-Alphonse
Forel, Swiss hydrologist (d. 1912) ·
February 4 – Clément Ader, French engineer, inventor, and
airplane pioneer (d. 1926) ·
February 15 – Manuel
Ferraz de Campos Sales, President of Brazil (d. 1913) ·
February 16 – Armand Guillaumin,
French painter, lithographer (d. 1927) ·
February 18 – Gergely Luthár, Hungarian Slovene writer
(d. 1925) ·
February 24 – Carl Gräbe, German chemist (d. 1927) ·
February 25 – Pierre-Auguste
Renoir, French painter (d. 1919) ·
March 8 – Oliver Wendell
Holmes Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States (d. 1935) ·
March 15 – Pietro Bonilli, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed
(d. 1935) ·
April 3 – Hermann Carl Vogel,
German astrophysicist, astronomer (d. 1907) ·
April 9 – William George Aston,
British consular official (d. 1911) ·
April 10 – Adolfo Rivadeneyra,
Spanish traveler, diplomat and writer (d.1882) ·
April 13 – Louis-Ernest Barrias,
French sculptor (d. 1905) ·
May 10 – James Gordon
Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (d. 1918) ·
May 15 – Clarence Dutton, American geologist
(d. 1912) ·
June 1 ·
Edward Lyon
Buchwalter, Union captain in the American Civil War, president of
Superior Drill Company, president of American Seeding Machine Company, and
first President of The Citizens National Bank of Springfield, Ohio (d. 1933) ·
Daniel
de Lange, Dutch composer, writer and cellist (d. 1918) July–December[edit]
Antonín Dvořák ·
July 2 – Alexander
Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, Russian chemist (d. 1910) ·
July 5 – Mary Arthur McElroy, de
facto First
Lady of the United States (d. 1917) ·
July 15 – James Hard, American soldier, last verified
living Union combat veteran of the American Civil War (d. 1953) ·
August 6 – Florence Baker, Hungarian-born explorer
(d. 1916) ·
August 24 – Anna Hierta-Retzius,
Swedish women's rights activist (d. 1924) ·
August 25 – Emil Kocher,
Swiss medical researcher, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1917) ·
August 28 – Louis Le Prince, French inventor, Father
of Cinematography (d. 1890) ·
Antonín Dvořák,
Czech composer (d. 1904) ·
Charles J. Guiteau,
American lawyer, assassin of James A. Garfield (d. 1882) ·
September 10 – Yamaji Motoharu, Japanese general (d. 1897) ·
September 28 – Georges Clemenceau,
French statesman (d. 1929) ·
October 4 – Prudente de Morais,
3rd President of Brazil (d. 1902) ·
October 7 – King Nicholas I of
Montenegro (d. 1921) ·
October 16 – Prince Itō Hirobumi, 4-time Prime Minister of
Japan (d. 1909) ·
Nelson W. Aldrich,
Senator from Rhode Island (d. 1915) ·
Armand Fallières,
French President (d. 1931) ·
November 9 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom
(d. 1910) ·
November 13 – Edward Burd Grubb,
Jr., American Civil War Union
Brevet Brigadier General (d.1913) ·
November 20 – Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister
of Canada (d. 1919) ·
December 6 – Frédéric Bazille,
French painter (d. 1870) ·
December 20 – Ferdinand Buisson,
French pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932) Date Unknown[edit] ·
Alfred Heaver, English property developer
(d. 1901) ·
Arousyak Papazian,
Armenian actress, writer (d. 1907) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit] ·
January 15 – Johann
Jacob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot, Baltic-German naturalist,
traveller (b. 1792) ·
January 20 – Jørgen Jørgensen,
Danish adventurer (b. 1780) ·
February 12 – Sir Astley Cooper, British surgeon and
anatomist (b. 1768) ·
February 17 – Ferdinando Carulli,
Italian guitarist (b. 1770) ·
March 1 – Claude
Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, French marshal (b. 1764) ·
March 12 – Richard
Roberts, captain of SS President (b. 1803) ·
March 16 – Félix Savart, French physicist (b. 1791) ·
April 4 – William Henry
Harrison, 9th President
of the United States (b. 1773) ·
April 10 – William
Lloyd, Welsh Anglican priest turned schoolteacher, Methodist
preacher (b. 1771) ·
April 28 – Peter Chanel, French Roman Catholic
missionary (martyred) (b. 1803) ·
April 30 – Peter Andreas
Heiberg, Danish author, philologist (b. 1758) ·
May 13 – Maria Madeline
Taylor, Australian stage actor (b. 1805) ·
May 16 – Marie Boivin, French midwife, inventor and
obstetrics writer (b. 1773) ·
May 20 – Joseph Blanco White,
British theologian (b. 1775) ·
May 23 – Franz Xaver von
Baader, German philosopher, theologian (b. 1765) ·
June 1 – David Wilkie,
Scottish artist (b. 1785) July–December[edit] ·
July – Mary Rogers ("Beautiful Cigar Girl"),
American murder victim (b. c. 1820) ·
August 24 – Theodore Edward Hook,
English author (b. 1788) ·
September 25 – John Chandler, American politician (b. 1762) ·
October 9 – Karl Friedrich
Schinkel, German architect (b. 1781) ·
December 4 – David Daniel Davis,
British physician (b. 1777) ·
December 23 – William Hay
Macnaghten, Anglo-Indian diplomat (b. 1793) References[edit] 1.
^ Thomson, John (1873).
"Hong-Kong". Illustrations of China and Its People. 1.
London. 2.
^ Ross, Voyage to the Southern Seas, 1,
pp. 216–8. 3.
^ Jump up to:a b Penguin
Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0. 4.
^ Bonham, Valerie (2004). "Hughes,
Marian Rebecca (1817–1912)". Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.
Retrieved 2010-11-26. (subscription or UK public library membership required) 5.
^ Spielmann, Marion Harry (1895). The History of
"Punch". p. 27. 6.
^ Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher (1995). The
London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan. p. 287. ISBN 0-333-57688-8. 7.
^ Dallas
Historical Society (2002-12-30). "Dallas History". Archived
from the original on April 22, 2006.
Retrieved 2006-04-20. Further reading[edit] ·
Heilprin, Louis (1885). "Chronological Table of Universal History". Historical
Reference Book. New York: D. Appleton and Company – via Hathi
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