* 1801 – Joseph Lanner, Austrian composer and conductor ( d. 1843 )

* 1872 – William Frederick Horry, English convicted murderer ( b. 1843 )

* 1779 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and songwriter ( d. 1843 )

* 1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War ( d. 1926 )

* Haliotis semiplicata Menke, 1843 – the semiplicate abalone

* 1843 – The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated.

* 1843 – Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.

* 1774 – Robert Southey, English poet and biographer ( d. 1843 )

* 1843 – C. I. Scofield, American theologian, minister, and writer ( d. 1921 )

* 1843 – William Southam, Canadian publisher ( d. 1932 )

* 1843 – David B. Hill, American politician, 29th Governor of New York ( d. 1910 )

He validated his theory by converting carbon disulfide, in several steps, to acetic acid ( 1843 – 45 ).

* 1843 – Alice of the United Kingdom ( d. 1878 )

Work was also progressing on the northern half of the West Wing ( The Egyptian Sculpture Gallery ) 1826 – 1831, with Montagu House demolished in 1842 to make room for the final part of the West Wing, completed in 1846, and the South Wing with its great colonnade, initiated in 1843 and completed in 1847, when the Front Hall and Great Staircase were opened to the public.

* Charles Bill ( 1843 – 1915 ), British Conservative Party Member of Parliament ( MP ) Leek 1892 – 1906

#*** Charles Albert Edmond Bonaparte ( 1843 – 1847 )

Clausewitz, Hermann von Boyen ( 1771 – 1848 ) and Karl von Grolman ( 1777 – 1843 ) were Scharnhorst's primary allies in his efforts to reform the Prussian army between 1807 and 1814.

** Etty Darwin ( 1843 – 1929 ), daughter of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

* 1843 – Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet ( d. 1886 )

* 1843 – Robert Koch, German bacteriologist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1910 )

The Dominicans of the province of France furnished Lacordaire ( 1835 – 1836, 1843 – 1851 ), Jacques Monsabré ( 1869 – 1870, 1872 – 1890 ), Joseph Ollivier ( 1871, 1897 ), Thomas Etourneau ( 1898 – 1902 ).

Whenever New England liberalism is reminded of the dramatic confrontation of Parker and the fraternity on January 23, 1843 -- while it may defend the privilege of Chandler Robbins to demand that Parker leave the Association, while it may plead that Dr. N. L. Frothingham had every warrant for stating, `` The difference between Trinitarians and Unitarians is a difference in Christianity ; ;

The principal ironworks was built by the British Iron Company in 1825 ; it passed to the New British Iron Company in 1843 and to the Ebbw Vale Company in 1852 but closed in 1889.

From October 1840 until January 1843 he was in Paris, busy with the treasures of the Bibliothèque Nationale, eking out his scanty means by making collations for other scholars, and producing for the publisher, Firmin Didot, several editions of the Greek New Testament — one of them exhibiting the form of the text corresponding most closely to the Vulgate.

* 1843 – The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opens ( Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City ).

Lavish festivals featuring African-based dances to drums were organized on Sundays at Place Congo, or Congo Square, in New Orleans until 1843.

* 1910 – David B. Hill, Governor of New York ( b. 1843 )

His work inspired the New England Transcendentalists, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, who declared in 1843 that, in reading Proclus, " I am filled with hilarity & spring, my heart dances, my sight is quickened, I behold shining relations between all beings, and am impelled to write and almost to sing.

" The Pit and the Pendulum " is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843.

" The Pit and the Pendulum " was included in The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843, published by Carey & Hart.

* February 16 – Thomas Bracken, author of the official national anthem of New Zealand ( God Defend New Zealand ) ( b. 1843 )

Its first performance in London took place on 1 April 1837, but it only reached the United States on 29 July 1843 in Philadelphia and later in New York on 14 February 1844.

New Orleans saw the first American performance on March 7, 1843.

In London it was presented for the first time in England on 29 June 1843 at Her Majesty's Theatre, and the United States premiere took place on 7 January 1845 at the Téatre d ' Orleans in New Orleans.

In America, a typhus epidemic killed the son of Franklin Pierce in Concord, New Hampshire in 1843 and struck in Philadelphia in 1837.

In 1843 and 1844, sailing ships bringing immigrant families from Alsace arrived at the port of New York.

His son, George William Clinton ( 1807 – 1885 ), served as Mayor of Buffalo, New York, 1842 – 1843.

In 1843 he was one of the founders of the New Englander ( later the Yale Review ), and in 1848, with Richard Salter Storrs, Joshua Leavitt, Joseph Parrish Thompson, and Henry C. Bowen, he founded the Independent, a magazine designed primarily to combat slavery extension ; he was an editor of the Independent until 1863.

*# New Windsor ( incorporated 1843 )

* Josephine Shaw Lowell ( 1843 – 1905 ), sister of American Civil War hero Robert Gould Shaw, first woman to hold a public office in New York City, and wife of Gen. Charles Russell Lowell

* Peter B. Olney ( 1843 – 1922 ), New York County District Attorney 1883 – 1884

In New York City in 1843, Dan Emmett and his Virginia Minstrels broke blackface minstrelsy loose from its novelty act and entr ' acte status and performed the first full-blown minstrel show: an evening's entertainment composed entirely of blackface performance.

* William Cowper Smith ( 1843 – 1911 ), Liberal Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand