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This page is about the year 1841. For the board game, see
1841
.
1841
(
MDCCCXLI
) is a
common year starting on Friday
(link will take you to calendar).
1841
January
February-March
April
August
September
November
December
Unknown dates
Births
Deaths
top
January
January 25
-
Charles Elliot
of
Britain
and
Kei Sin
of
Qing
signed the
Convention of Chuenpeh
. A
navy
official
Edward Belcher
led a fleet to land
Hong Kong
.
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.
January 30
- A fire destroys two-thirds of the then villa (now city) of
Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
.
top
February-March
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
Supreme Court of the United States
rules in the
Amistad
case that the
Africa
ns who seized control of the ship had been taken into
slavery
illegally.
top
April
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 elected
president
with the shortest term served. He is succeeded by
Vice President
John Tyler
.
April 6
-
John Tyler
is inaugurated as the 10th
President of the United States
.
top
August
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.
top
September
September 24
-
United Kingdom
annexes
Sarawak
from
Brunei
;
James Brooke
is appointed
rajah
.
top
November
November 13
-
James Braid
first sees a demonstration of
animal magnetism
, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls
hypnosis
.
top
December
December 23
- In a meeting with
Akbar Khan
, his men seize Sir
William Macnaghten
and tear him to pieces
top
Unknown dates
The two colonies of
the Canadas
are merged into the
Province of Canada
.
Queen's University
is founded in
Kingston
,
Ontario
, 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
locomotive
s.
The city of
Dallas, Texas
is founded by
John Neely Bryan
. The original town of few inhabitants and mud huts would later become a major city in the
South
, as well as the
United States
.
Valley Cemetery
is founded in
Manchester, New Hampshire
top
Births
January 7
-
Bernadette Soubirous
, a visionary from Lourdes. (d.
1879
)
January 14
-
Berthe Morisot
, French painter (d.
1895
)
January 25
-
Jackie Fisher
, British admiral (d.
1920
)
January 28
-
Henry Morton Stanley
, Welsh explorer and journalist (d.
1904
)
February 2
-
François-Alphonse Forel
, Swiss hydrologist (d.
1912
)
February 4
-
Clément Ader
, French engineer, inventor, and airplane pioneer (d.
1926
)
February 25
-
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
, French painter (d.
1919
)
March 8
-
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d.
1935
)
April 13
-
Louis-Ernest Barrias
, French sculptor (d.
1905
)
May 10
-
James Gordon Bennett, Jr.
, American newspaper publisher (d.
1918
)
August 25
-
Emil Kocher
, Swiss medical researcher, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(d.
1917
)
September 8
-
Antonín Dvořák
, Czech composer (d.
1904
)
September 28
-
Georges Clemenceau
, French statesman (d.
1929
)
October 7
- King
Nicholas I of Montenegro
(d.
1921
)
October 16
- Prince
Hirobumi Ito
, Japanese governor of Korea (d.
1909
)
November 6
-
Nelson W. Aldrich
, Senator from Rhode Island (d.
1915
)
November 9
- King
Edward VII of the United Kingdom
(d.
1910
)
November 13
-
Edward Burd Grubb
,
American Civil War
Union Brevet Brigadier General (d.
1913
)
November 20
-
Wilfrid Laurier
, seventh
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
)
William George Aston
, British consular official (d.
1911
)
top
Deaths
February 17
-
Ferdinando Carulli
, Italian
guitarist
March 1
-
Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno
, French marshal (b.
1764
)
April 4
-
William Henry Harrison
, 9th
President of the United States
(b.
1773
)
April 28
-
Peter Chanel
, French Roman Catholic missionary (martyred) (b.
1803
)
May 20
-
Joseph Blanco White
, British theologian (b.
1775
)
May 23
-
Franz Xaver von Baader
, German philosopher and theologian (b.
1765
)
June 1
-
David Wilkie
, Scottish artist (b.
1785
)
August 24
-
Theodore Edward Hook
, English author (b.
1788
)
September 25
-
John Chandler
, American politician (b.
1762
)
December 23
-
William Hay Macnaghten
, Anglo-Indian
diplomat
(b.
1793
)
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