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( 1840s: )     1843
Year 1843

Events

• January 20 – Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná, becomes de facto first prime minister of the Empire of Brazil.
• February 25 – Paulet Affair: Lord George Paulet occupies the Kingdom of Hawaii, in the name of Great Britain.
• March 8 – The Danish government re-establishes the Althing in Iceland as an advisory body, by royal decree.
• March 21 – The world does not end, contrary to the first prediction by American preacher William Miller.
• April 7 – The Indian Slavery Act, 1843 removes legal support for slavery within the territories of the East India Company
• May 4 – Natal is proclaimed a British colony.
• July 12 – Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement in the United States, receives a revelation recommending polygamy.
• September 2 – The Economist newspaper is first published in London (preliminary issue dated August).
• September 15 (Sept. 3, O.S.) – A Popular uprising in Athens, Greece, including citizens and military captains, demands from King Otto a liberal Constitution from the state, which has been governed since independence (1830) by various domestic and foreign business interests.
• November 17 – The city of Shanghai opens for trade with foreigners for the first time, welcoming a party of traders from the United Kingdom.

 

Event

Event
Pax Brittanica

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Sheffield Hallam University		Public	One of the 1992 "new universities"
Stanford University		Military ranks
Marlborough College
B'nai B'rith		NGO

 

A Birth

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary
William McKinley	29 January 1843	Ohio Niles United States	14 September 1901	Politician Lawyer

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