Important Events
- Feb 1 Oldest continuous writer of insurance in America - The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York (MONY) opens
- May 22 1st wagon train with 700 - 1000 migrants, departs Independence, Missouri for Oregon
- Jul 19 The steamship SS Great Britain is launched, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, is the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and the largest vessel afloat in the world
1843 in Music
- Jan 2 Richard Wagner's opera "The Flying Dutchman" premieres in Dresden
Did You Know?
"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens is published, 6,000 copies sold
On December 19, 1843
Camillo Golgi
Frank James
Robert Koch
Susan Blow
William McKinleyWorld Leaders in 1843
John Tyler
10th US President- Robert Peel
British Prime Minister
John Tyler
Robert PeelFamous People in 1843
- Charles Dickens
Novelist - Giuseppe Verdi
Composer
Charles Dickens
Giuseppe VerdiWould You Believe?
An alligator falls from sky during a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina
On July 2, 1843
Famous Weddings
- Feb 6 Frontiersman Kit Carson (33) weds Josefa Jaramillo (14) at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church
- Apr 23 Samuel Gridley Howe, American physician and educator, marries Julia Ward, American poet and author
- Jun 19 Philosopher Karl Marx (25) weds Jenny von Westphalen in Germany
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