1843
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| Centuries: | 18th century - 19th century - 20th century | 
| Decades: | 1810s 1820s 1830s - 1840s - 1850s 1860s 1870s | 
| Years: | 1840 1841 1842 - 1843 - 1844 1845 1846 | 
Year 1843 (MDCCCXLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1843
January - March
- 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
 - February 14 - The event that inspired the song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! is held.
 - March 15 - Victoria, British Columbia, was founded by the Hudson's Bay Company as a trading post and fort.
 
April - June
- May 4 - Natal proclaimed a British colony
 - 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.
 - May 23 - Chile takes possession of the Strait of Magellan.
 
July - September
-  July 1
- Ulysses S. Grant graduates from West Point 21st from a class of 39.
 - John J. Peck graduates from West Point 8th from a class of 39.
 
 - 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 - December
- 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 11 - First publication of Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling.
 - 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.
 - December 19 - First publication of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
 
Undated
- The world's first commercial Christmas cards are printed by Sir Henry Cole in London.
 - James Joule quantifies the conversion of work into heat
 - In Barbados, Samuel Jackman Prescod, is the first black person elected to the Barbados 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.
 - First publication of Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart.
 - The world does not end, contrary to prediction by American preacher William Miller.
 - Germans from the Black Forest region of Southern Baden migrate to Venezuela
 
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1843 MDCCCXLIII  | 
       
| Ab urbe condita | 2596 | 
| Armenian calendar | 1292 ԹՎ ՌՄՂԲ  | 
       
| Bahá'í calendar | -1 – 0 | 
| Berber calendar | 2793 | 
| Buddhist calendar | 2387 | 
| Burmese calendar | 1205 | 
| Chinese calendar | 4479/4539-12-1 ( 壬寅年十二月初一日) — to —  4480/4540-11-11( 癸卯年十一月十一日)  | 
       
| Coptic calendar | 1559 – 1560 | 
| Ethiopian calendar | 1835 – 1836 | 
| Hebrew calendar | 5603 – 5604 | 
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1898 – 1899 | 
| - Shaka Samvat | 1765 – 1766 | 
| - Kali Yuga | 4944 – 4945 | 
| Holocene calendar | 11843 | 
| Iranian calendar | 1221 – 1222 | 
| Islamic calendar | 1258 – 1259 | 
| Japanese calendar |  Tenpō 14 (天保14年)  | 
       
| Korean calendar | 4176 | 
| Thai solar calendar | 2386 | 
January - June
- January 8 - John H. Moffitt, American politician (d. 1926)
 - January 10 - Frank James, American outlaw (d. 1915)
 - January 29 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (d. 1901)
 - April 4 - William Jackson, photographer (d. 1942)
 - April 15 - Henry James, American writer (d. 1916)
 - April 25 - Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, third child of Queen Victoria (d. 1878)
 - May 21 - Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1914)
 - June 3 - King Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912)
 - June 9 - Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1914)
 - June 15 - Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (d. 1907)
 - June 30 - Sir Ernest Satow, British diplomat and scholar (d. 1928)
 
July - December
- July 7 - Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1926)
 - July 29 - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (d. 1901)
 - August 1 - Robert Todd Lincoln, American statesman and businessman (d. 1926)
 - August 20 - Christina Nilsson,Swedish operatic soprano (d. 1921)
 - August 31 - Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1919)
 - November 25 - Henry Ware Eliot, American industrialist, philanthropist and the father of T. S. Eliot (d. 1919)
 - November 27 - Cornelius Vanderbilt II, American railway magnate (d. 1899)
 - December 11 - Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1910)
 - date unknown - Owon, Korean painter (d. 1897)
 - probable - Pierre Lallement, French inventor of the bicycle (d. 1891)
 
Deaths
January - June
- January 11 - Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (b. 1779)
 - March 21 - Robert Southey, English poet (b. 1774)
 - March 25 - Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Scottish clergyman (b. 1813)
 - March 27 - Karl Salomo Zachariae Von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1769)
 - April 15 - Noah Webster, American lexicographer (b. 1758)
 - April 17 - Samuel Morey, American inventor (b. 1762)
 - June 1 - William Abbot, English actor (b. 1798)
 - June 6 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (b. 1770)
 
July - December
- July 7 - John Holmes, American politician (b. 1773)
 - July or August - Sequoyah, creator of the Cherokee syllabary (b. around 1767)
 - December 18 - Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, British Governor-General of India (b. 1748)
 

