What is 1843?
{{Year nav|1843}} {{Year in various calendars|1843}} {{Year article header|1843}} == Events == * [[February 6]] – The [[Virginia Minstrels]] perform the first [[minstrel show]] ([[Bowery Amphitheatre]], [[New York City]]). * [[February 8]] &ndash; Earthquakes in [[Guadeloupe]] magnitude 8.5, 5000 people reported killed. * [[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|SS ''Great Britain'']] is launched from [[Bristol]]. * [[August 15]] – [[Tivoli Gardens]], one of the oldest still intact [[amusement park]]s 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 [[Jew]]ish 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 card]]s 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 the House of Assembly. * The [[Denmark|Danish]] government re-establishes the [[althing]] in [[Iceland]] as an [[advisory body]]. * The first tunnel under the [[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, Louisiana|Abbeville]] is founded by descendants of [[Acadians]] from [[