* Andrew Ainslie Common ( 1841 – 1903 ), built his own very large reflecting telescopes and demonstrated that photography could record astronomical features invisible to the human eye.

For 18 months, during 1841 – 1842, Nobel went to the only school he ever attended as a child, the Jacobs Apologistic School in Stockholm.

* 1841 – Karl Binding, German jurist ( d. 1920 )

* 1841 – U. S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States.

* 1841 – Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss physician and medical researcher, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1917 )

The 1841 – 42 legislative session, with Whigs having a majority in the House chamber and the Democrats a smaller majority in the Senate, was marked by an impasse over the election of Tennessee's two United States senators.

* 1841 – Clément Ader, French aviation pioneer ( d. 1926 )

The concept of allotropy was originally proposed in 1841 by the Swedish scientist Baron Jöns Jakob Berzelius ( 1779 – 1848 ).

The Habsburgs founded a number of monasteries ( with some structures enduring, e. g., in Wettingen and Muri ), the closing of which by the government in 1841 was a contributing factor to the outbreak of the Swiss civil war – the " Sonderbund War " – in 1847.

* 1920 – Karl Binding, German jurist ( b. 1841 )

Sir Robert Peel, Bt., Prime Minister 1834 – 35, 1841 – 46

The first attempt at legislation was drafted by the President of the Board of Control, Lord Ellenborough, who had previously served as Governor-General of India ( 1841 – 44 ).

Berthe Morisot ( January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895 ) was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.

The first Portalian president was General Joaquín Prieto, who served two terms ( 1831 – 1836, 1836 – 1841 ).

His father was Henry Attlee ( 1841 – 1908 ), a solicitor, and his mother was Ellen Bravery Watson ( 1847 – 1920 ).

After a few presidents of the Provisional Junta, there were again consuls of the republic, 14 March 1841 – 13 March 1844 ( ruling jointly, but occasionally styled " first consul ", " second consul "): Carlos Antonio López Ynsfrán ( b. 1792 – d. 1862 ) + Mariano Roque Alonzo Romero ( d. 1853 ) ( the lasts of the aforementioned juntistas, Commandant-General of the Army )

The winter of 1837 – 38 saw rebellion in both of the Canadas, with the result they were rejoined as the Province of Canada in 1841.

** Anne Darwin ( 1841 – 1851 ), daughter of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

Johnny Mullagh ( born Unaarrimin ) ( 13 August 1841 – 14 August 1891 ) was a leading Victorian cricketer who led the famous 1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England.

Administered at first as a part of the Australian colony of New South Wales, New Zealand became a colony in its own right on 3 May 1841.

* John Scott – Matilda ( 1827 ), The Colonel ( 1828 ), Rowton ( 1829 ), Margrave ( 1832 ), Touchstone ( 1834 ), Don John ( 1838 ), Charles the Twelfth ( 1839 ), Launcelot ( 1840 ), Satirist ( 1841 ), The Baron ( 1845 ), Newminster ( 1851 ), West Australian ( 1853 ), Warlock ( 1856 ), Imperieuse ( 1857 ), Gamester ( 1859 ), The Marquis ( 1862 )

* Z. l. chloronotus Gould, 1841 ( Western Silvereye ) – south-west Western Australia from Carnarvon southwards coastally and subcoastally to South Australia at the head of the Great Australian Bight

The Bounty Scheme, which ran from 1835 to 1841, was proposed by Edward Gibbon Wakefield as a way for Australian settlers to subsidise the emigration of skilled tradespeople from Britain.

The town retains many historic buildings, including the original court house built in 1841, various large churches and many traditional Australian pubs.

* William Hartnoll ( 1841 – 1932 ), Australian politician

* John Gray ( Australian politician ) ( 1841 – 1914 ), Australian Senator

* William Giles ( colonial manager ) ( 1791 – 1862 ), CEO of the South Australia Company, 1841 – 1860, and member of the South Australian colonial legislature

* John Arthur Wright ( 1841 – 1920 ), Australian company manager, politician and railways commissioner

It was formed in Sydney in 1837, and supplied town gas for the first public lighting of a street lamp in Sydney in 1841 AGL was the second company to list on the Australian Stock Exchange.

The first major industry was established in 1841 with the building of the Australian Sugar Company's sugar mill by the Cooks River to produce molasses and spirits.

* Stephen King jr ( 1841 – 1915 ), Australian explorer

* R. H. Mathews ( 1841 – 1918 ), Australian anthropologist and linguist who studied Australian Aborigines

* Colonel William Vincent Legge ( 1841 – 1918 ), Australian ornithologist, first President of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

He had a passion for the sea, and in 1841 started round the world with Benjamin Boyd ( 1796 – 1851 ), afterwards well known as a great Australian squatter, in the latter's ship Wanderer, and having got to New South Wales, made his home at Boyd's private whaling and trading village of Boyd Town in Twofold Bay on the New South Wales coast for ten years.

In 1839, Hamersley became a partner in a horse breeding business with Samuel Pole Phillips, who had recently arrived in the colony, and in 1841 he became a director of the Western Australian Bank.

The earliest anecdotal account was in 1841, a decade prior to the Victorian gold rush while the written account of football dates to September 1855 with the first official football club formed on 14 May 1859 with the first Australian rules written three days later.

Captain Charles James Tyers RN FRSV ( 13 September 1806 – 20 September 1870 ) was a 19th century Australian surveyor and explorer, and the Commissioner for Crown Lands for Portland ( 1841 ) and Gippsland ( 1844 ).

Somehow, between the Aborigines and the meeting of the South Australian Company in London in 1841, the word ended up as ' Gummaraka '.

Teichelmann, CG, 1841, Illustrative and Explanatory Notes of the Manners, Customs, Habits and Superstitions of the Natives of South Australia, Adelaide, Committee of the South Australian Wesleyan Methodist Auxiliary Missionary Society.

* 1841 – Tom Emmett, English cricketer ( d. 1904 )

* William Haywood ( cricketer ) ( 1841 – 1912 ), British cricketer

William Clifford ( christened 14 December 1811 at Bearsted, Kent ; died 5 September 1841 at Gravesend, Kent ) was an English cricketer of the mid-19th century who played for Kent.

* Thomas Wilson ( cricketer ) ( 1841 – 1929 ), English cricketer

* William Mycroft ( 1841 – 1894 ), an English cricketer

* John Jackson ( Lancashire cricketer ) ( 1841 – 1906 ), English cricketer

* James Fellowes ( cricketer ) ( 1841 – 1916 ), English cricketer

Henry (" Harry ") Jupp ( 19 November 1841 – 8 April 1889 ) was an English professional cricketer, who was the opening batsman for Surrey County Cricket Club from 1862 to 1881.

The census returns of 1841, 1851 and 1861 refer to him as, variously, a " bat maker " and an " old cricketer ".