1841

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Year 1841 (MDCCCXLI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1841 1.1 Undated 1.2 Ongoing events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

Events of 1841

• January 20 – Charles Elliot of Britain and Qishan of the Qing Dynasty agree to the Convention of Chuenpee.
• January 26 – The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland occupies Hong Kong. Later during the year, the first census of the island records a population of about 7,500^[1].
• January 30 – A fire ruins and destroys 2/3 of the then villa (now city) of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
• February 4 – First known reference to Groundhog Day, in the diary of a James Morris.
• 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.
• March 4 – Martin Van Buren is succeeded as President of the United States by William Henry Harrison.
• March 9 – 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 under the command of the legendary Richard Roberts founders in rough seas with all passengers & crew lost.
• March 29 – The Bishopton railway station is opened.
• 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, who becomes the 10th President of the United States.
• April 6 – President John Tyler is sworn in.
• May 11 – Lt. Charles Wilkes lands at Fort Nisqually in Puget Sound.
• June 6 – United Kingdom census is the first to show names and approximate ages of all individuals residing in the country on this Sunday night.
• June 28 – Ballet Giselle first presented by the Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique at the Salle Le Peletier in Paris, France.
• 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.
• September 24 – The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland annexes Sarawak from Brunei; James Brooke is appointed rajah.
• 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.
• 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.

Undated

• Fordham University is founded in The Bronx by the Society of Jesus. Its name at its founding is St. John's College.
• August Borsig builds the first German locomotive.
• The city of Dallas, Texas is founded by John Neely Bryan.
• John Augustus develops the concept of probation.
• Sir Richard Owen invents the term "dinosaur".
• The Scroll and Key secret society of Yale University is established.

Ongoing events

• First Opium War (1839–1842)

Births

1841 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1841 MDCCCXLI
Ab urbe condita	2594
Armenian calendar	1290 ԹՎ ՌՄՂ
Bahá'í calendar	-3 – -2
Bengali calendar	1248
Berber calendar	2791
Buddhist calendar	2385
Burmese calendar	1203
Byzantine calendar	7349 – 7350
Chinese calendar	庚子年十二月初九日 (4477/4537-12-9) — to — 辛丑年十一月十九日 (4478/4538-11-19)
Coptic calendar	1557 – 1558
Ethiopian calendar	1833 – 1834
Hebrew calendar	5601 – 5602
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1897 – 1898
- Shaka Samvat	1763 – 1764
- Kali Yuga	4942 – 4943
Holocene calendar	11841
Iranian calendar	1219 – 1220
Islamic calendar	1256 – 1257
Japanese calendar	Tenpō 12 (天保12年)
Korean calendar	4174
Thai solar calendar	2384

• January 7 – Bernadette Soubirous, visionary from Lourdes (d. 1879)
• January 14 – Berthe Morisot, French painter (d. 1895)
• January 23 – Constant Coquelin, French actor,Cyrano de Bergerac (d. 1909)
• 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 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)
• 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 8 – Charles J. Guiteau, American lawyer and assassin of James A. Garfield (d. 1882)
• 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 6 – 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, 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)
• December 20 – Wilfrid Laurier, Seventh Prime Minister of Canada from July 11, 1896, to October 5, 1911. (d. 1919)

Deaths

• January 15 – Johann Jacob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot, Baltic German naturalist and traveller (b. 1792)
• February 17 – Ferdinando Carulli, Italian guitarist (b. 1770)
• March 1 – Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (b. 1764)
• March 12 – Richard Roberts, ship's captain perished while in command of the SS President (famous quote: I'd Go to Sea in a Bathtub) (b. 1803)
• April 4 – William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States (b. 1773)
• April 28 – Peter Chanel, French Roman Catholic missionary (martyred) (b. 1803)
• April 30 – Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (b. 1758)
• 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 4 – David Daniel Davis, British physician (b. 1777)
• December 23 – William Hay Macnaghten, Anglo-Indian diplomat (b. 1793)

References

1. ↑ John Thomson 1837-1921, Chap on Hong Kong, Illustrations of China and Its People (London,1873-1874)