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:''For the game, see ''[[1841 (board game)|1841]]''.''
Year '''1841''' ('''[[Roman numerals|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]]).
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==Events of 1841==
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* [[January 25]] - [[Charles Elliot]] of [[United Kingdom|Britain]] and [[Kei Sin]] of [[Qing]] signed the [[Convention of Chuenpeh]].
* [[January 26]] - The [[United Kingdom]] occupies [[Hong Kong]]. Later during the year, the first census of the [[island]] recorded a population of about 75,000.
* [[January 30]] - A fire ruins and destroys two-thirds of the then villa (now city) of [[Mayagüez, Puerto Rico]].
* [[February 18]] - The first ongoing [[filibuster]] in the [[United States Senate]] begins and lasts until [[March 11]].
* [[March 4]] - [[Martin Van Buren]], [[President of the United States]] is succeeded by [[William Henry Harrison]].
* [[March 9]] - The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] rules in the ''[[United States v. The Amistad|Amistad]]'' case that the [[Africa]]ns who seized control of the ship had been taken into [[slavery]] illegally.
* [[March 29]] - [[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 of the United States|Vice President]] [[John Tyler]], who becomes the 10th [[President of the United States]].
* [[April 6]] - President [[John Tyler]] is sworn in.
* [[May 11]] - [[Charles Wilkes|Lt. Charles Wilkes]] lands at [[Fort Nisqually]] in [[Puget Sound]].
* [[August 16]] - [[U.S. President]] [[John Tyler]] vetoes a [[Bill (proposed law)|bill]] which called for the re-establishment of the [[Second Bank of the United States]]. Enraged [[United States Whig Party|Whig Party]] members riot outside the [[White House]] in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in [[U.S.]] history.
* [[September 24]] - [[United Kingdom]] annexes [[Sarawak]] from [[Brunei]]; [[James Brooke]] is appointed [[rajah]].
* [[October 16]] - [[Queen's University, Kingston|Queen's University]] is founded in [[Kingston, Ontario|Kingston]], [[Ontario]], by [[Reverend|Rev.]] [[Thomas Liddell]], who carried a [[Royal Charter]] from [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]] and became the school's first [[Principal (university)|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]] - [[James Braid]] first sees a demonstration of ''[[animal magnetism]]'', which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls ''[[hypnosis]]''.
===Undated===
* The two colonies of [[the Canadas]] are merged into the [[Province of Canada]].
* [[Fordham University]] is founded in [[The Bronx]] by the [[Society of Jesus]]. Its name at 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]]."
===Ongoing events===
* [[First Opium War]] ([[1839]]-[[1842]])
==Births==
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* [[January 7]] - [[Bernadette Soubirous]], a visionary from Lourdes. (d. [[1879]])
* [[January 14]] - [[Berthe Morisot]], French painter (d. [[1895]])
* [[January 25]] - [[John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher|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 13]] - [[Louis-Ernest Barrias]], French sculptor (d. [[1905]])
* [[May 10]] - [[James Gordon Bennett, Jr.]], American newspaper publisher (d. [[1918]])
* [[August 25]] - [[Emil Theodor Kocher|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 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]], [[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]])
: ''See also [[:Category: 1841 births]].''
==Deaths==
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*[[February 17]] - [[Ferdinando Carulli]], Italian [[guitarist]] (b. [[1770]])
*[[March 1]] - [[Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno]], French marshal (b. [[1764]])
*[[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 (artist)|David Wilkie]], Scottish artist (b. [[1785]])
*[[August 24]] - [[Theodore Edward Hook]], English author (b. [[1788]])
*[[September 25]] - [[John Chandler]], American politician (b. [[1762]])
*[[December 23]] - [[William Hay Macnaghten]], Anglo-Indian [[diplomat]] (b. [[1793]])
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: ''See also [[:Category: 1841 deaths]].''
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