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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.
Calendar year
Events
January–March
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 –
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
April 4 – President
William Henry Harrison dies of
pneumonia , aged 68, 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 separate British colony,
[3] having previously been administered as part of the
Colony of New South Wales .
May 22 – The Georgian province of
Guria
revolts against the
Russian Empire .
June 6 – The
United Kingdom Census is held, the first to record names and approximate ages of every household member, and to be administered nationally.
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, with music by
Adolphe Adam and Italian ballerina
Carlotta Grisi in the title role.
July–September
July 18 : Coronation of Emperor
Pedro II of Brazil
October–December
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.
[5]
November – The settlement of
Dallas ,
Texas , is founded by
John Neely Bryan .
[6]
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 20 – The first
multilateral treaty for the suppression of the
African slave trade , the
Treaty for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade , signed in London by the representatives of
Austria ,
Britain ,
France ,
Prussia and
Russia .
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
Ongoing
Births
January–June
Henry Morton Stanley
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
January 8
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 –
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher , British admiral (d.
1920 )
January 27 –
Alexandru Candiano-Popescu , Romanian general, lawyer, journalist, and poet (d.
1901 )
January 28 –
Sir 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 10 –
Alfred Heaver , English property developer (d.
1901 )
February 15 –
Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales , 4th President of Brazil (d.
1913 )
February 16 –
Armand Guillaumin , French painter, lithographer (d.
1927 )
February 24 –
Carl Gräbe , German chemist (d.
1927 )
February 25 –
Pierre-Auguste Renoir , French painter (d.
1919 )
March 1 –
Luigi Luzzatti , Italian financier, economist, philosopher, and jurist, 20th
Prime Minister of Italy (d.
1927 )
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 13 –
Louis-Ernest Barrias , French sculptor (d.
1905 )
May 10 –
James Gordon Bennett Jr. , American newspaper publisher (d.
1918 )
May 14 – Sir
Squire Bancroft , English actor (d.
1926 )
May 15 –
Clarence Dutton , American geologist (d.
1912 )
June 1 –
Edward Lyon Buchwalter , Union captain in the American Civil War, businessman, and banker (d.
1933 )
July–December
Wilfrid Laurier
Antonín Dvořák
July 2 –
Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev , Russian chemist (d.
1910 )
July 4 –
Josef Drásal , the tallest Czech (d.
1886 )
July 5 –
Mary Arthur McElroy , de facto
First Lady of the United States (d.
1917 )
August 6 –
Florence Baker , Hungarian-born explorer (d.
1916 )
August 10 –
Oronhyatekha , Canadian Mohawk physician, CEO of an international benefit society, native statesman, scholar, rights campaigner and international shooter (d.
1907 )
August 14 –
Joaquín Vara de Rey y Rubio , Spanish general (d.
1898 )
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 )
September 8
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 )
November 6
November 9 – King
Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d.
1910 )
[7]
November 13 –
Edward Burd Grubb Jr. ,
American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (d.
1913 )
November 20 –
Sir Wilfrid Laurier , 7th
Prime Minister of Canada (d.
1919 )
November 25 –
Ernst Schröder , German mathematician and academic (d.
1902 )
[8]
December 4 –
Anna Tuschinski , Esperantist from
Danzig (d.
1939 )
[9]
December 6 –
Frédéric Bazille , French painter (k.
1870 )
December 20 –
Ferdinand Buisson , French pacifist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1932 )
Date unknown
Deaths
January–June
William Henry Harrison
Saint
Peter Chanel
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 , American military officer and politician, 9th
President of the United States (b.
1773 )
April 10 –
William Lloyd , Welsh Anglican priest turned schoolteacher, Methodist preacher (b.
1771 )
April 16 –
Frederick Reynolds , English playwright (b.
1764 )
April 28 –
Peter Chanel , French
Roman Catholic priest, missionary, and saint (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
July–December
July –
Mary Rogers ("Beautiful Cigar Girl"), American murder victim (b. c.
1820 )
August 16 –
Fernando Errázuriz Aldunate , Chilean politician, President of Chile (b.c
1777 )
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 )
November 18 –
Agustín Gamarra , Peruvian general and politician, 10th and 14th President of Peru (b.
1785 )
December 4 –
David Daniel Davis , British physician (b.
1777 )
December 23 –
William Hay Macnaghten , Anglo-Indian
diplomat (b.
1793 )
References
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Thomson, John (1873). "Hong-Kong".
Illustrations of China and Its People . Vol. 1. London. {{
cite book }}
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^ Ross, Voyage to the Southern Seas , 1 , pp. 216–8.
^
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ISBN
0-14-102715-0 .
^ Spielmann, Marion Harry (1895).
The History of "Punch" . p.
27 .
^ Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher (1995). The London Encyclopaedia . Macmillan. p. 287.
ISBN
0-333-57688-8 .
^
Dallas Historical Society (December 30, 2002).
"Dallas History" . Archived from
the original on April 22, 2006. Retrieved April 20, 2006 .
^
"Edward VII" . Westminster Abbey . Retrieved October 7, 2022 .
^ O'Connor, John J.;
Robertson, Edmund F. ,
"1841" ,
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive ,
University of St Andrews
^
"Anna Eliza Tuschinski (1841–1939)" . Committee for Celebrating the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation in Pomerania (in Polish). March 26, 2021. Retrieved June 2, 2023 .
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