1843

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• February 6 - The Virginia Minstrels perform the first minstrel show (Bowery Amphitheatre, New York City).
• February 11 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi premieres in Milan
• May 18 - The Disruption of the Church of Scotland took place in Edinburgh
• May 22 - The first major wagon train headed for the northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri on the Oregon Trail.
• July 19 - The SS Great Britain is launched from Bristol.
• August 15 - Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opened in Copenhagen, Denmark.
• October 13 - In New York City, Henry Jones and 11 others found B'nai B'rith (the oldest Jewish service organization in the world).
• November 28 - Ka La Ku'oko'a: Hawaiian Independence Day. The Kingdom of Hawai`i was officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
• The world's first commercial Christmas cards are printed by Sir Henry Cole in London.
• December 17 - First publication of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
• James Joule quantifies the conversion of work into heat
• In Barbados, the first black man, Samuel Jackson Prescod, is elected to House of Assembly
• Danish government re-establishes althing in Iceland as an advisory body
• First tunnel under Thames is finished
• Argentina supports Rosas of Uruguay and begins a siege of Montevideo
• Quaternions are discovered by William Rowan Hamilton.
• The Economist is first published.
• Bishop's University is founded.
• Abbeville is founded by descendants of Acadians from Nova Scotia.

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