1841 34921 222494299 2008-06-29T17:18:10Z Zorrobot 7218328 robot Modifying: [[lt:1841 m.]] {{year nav|1841}} {{C19YearInTopicX}} :''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]]). <!-- 12-day span=Mon-Sat,Tue-Sun,Wed-Mon,Thu-Tue,Fr-We,Sa-Th,Sun-Fri --> ==Events of 1841== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[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== {{Year in other calendars|japanese=[[Tenpo|Tenpō]] 11 &ndash; 12}} <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[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== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> *[[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]]) {{commonscat}} : ''See also [[:Category: 1841 deaths]].'' 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