Significant 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
World Leaders in 1843
John Tyler
10th US President
Robert Peel
British Prime Minister
Famous People in 1843
Charles Dickens
Novelist
Giuseppe Verdi
Composer
Camillo Golgi
Frank James
Robert Koch
Susan Blow
William McKinleyWould 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
- Sep 1 Prime Minister of Canada John A. Macdonald (28) weds his cousin Isabella Clark
- Dec 10 Author and religious leader Mary Baker Eddy (22) weds building contractor George Washington Glover (32) in Tilton, New Hampshire
Noah Webster