* 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 ).

In 1843, Johnson was the first Democrat to run for, and win, election as the U. S. representative from Tennessee's 1st congressional district, and joined a new Democratic majority in the House.

Acadia College awarded its first degrees in 1843 and became Acadia University in 1891, established by the Acadia University Act.

The first classes were held in Albion in 1843.

The independent Princedom of Serbia, had conducted the first population census in 1834 ; the subsequent censuses were conducted in 1841, 1843, 1846, 1850, 1854, 1859, 1863 and 1866 and 1874.

The first European Americans to arrive in what is known as Eagle Valley were John C. Fremont and his exploration party in January 1843.

He received the first fax patent in 1843.

* 1843 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi receives its first performance in Milan.

The company's stranglehold on the region was broken by the first successful large wagon train to reach Oregon in 1843, led by Marcus Whitman.

In 1691, he wrote the music for what is sometimes considered his dramatic masterpiece, King Arthur, with the libretto by Dryden and first published by the Musical Antiquarian Society in 1843.

In the first book on the subject, Neurypnology ( 1843 ), Braid described " hypnotism " as a state of physical relaxation accompanied and induced by mental concentration (" abstraction ").

According to his writings, Braid began to hear reports concerning various Oriental meditative practices soon after the release of his first publication on hypnotism, Neurypnology ( 1843 ).

About 1841 he had freed himself from all the burden of manual labour, and could occupy his thoughts with the dialect of his native district, Sunnmøre ; his first publication was a small collection of folk songs in the Sunnmøre dialect ( 1843 ).

* 1843 – Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.

In 1842 Davis attended the Democratic convention, and in 1843 became a candidate for the state House of Representatives, losing his first election.

Frémont's success in the first expedition led to his second expedition, undertaken in the summer of 1843.

It was home to the first house built in Lansing in 1843 by pioneer James Seymour and his family.

* Manhattan ( 1843 ship ), ship that made the first authorized United States visit to Tokyo Bay

* 1843 – The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri.

These reforms included guarantees to ensure the Ottoman subjects perfect security for their lives, honour, and property ; the introduction of the first Ottoman paper banknotes ( 1840 ) and opening of the first post offices ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the finance system according to the French model ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the Civil and Criminal Code according to the French model ( 1840 ); the establishment of the Meclis-i Maarif-i Umumiye ( 1841 ) which was the prototype of the First Ottoman Parliament ( 1876 ); the reorganization of the army and a regular method of recruiting, levying the army, and fixing the duration of military service ( 1843 – 44 ); the adoption of an Ottoman national anthem and Ottoman national flag ( 1844 ); the first nationwide Ottoman census in 1844 ( only male citizens were counted ); the first national identity cards ( officially named the Mecidiye identity papers, or informally kafa kağıdı ( head paper ) documents, 1844 ); the institution of a Council of Public Instruction ( 1845 ) and the Ministry of Education ( Mekatib-i Umumiye Nezareti, 1847, which later became the Maarif Nezareti, 1857 ); the abolition of slavery and slave trade ( 1847 ); the establishment of the first modern universities ( darülfünun, 1848 ), academies ( 1848 ) and teacher schools ( darülmuallimin, 1848 ); establishment of the Ministry of Healthcare ( Tıbbiye Nezareti, 1850 ); the Commerce and Trade Code ( 1850 ); establishment of the Academy of Sciences ( Encümen-i Daniş, 1851 ); establishment of the Şirket-i Hayriye which operated the first steam-powered commuter ferries ( 1851 ); the first European style courts ( Meclis-i Ahkam-ı Adliye, 1853 ) and supreme judiciary council ( Meclis-i Ali-yi Tanzimat, 1853 ); establishment of the modern Municipality of Istanbul ( Şehremaneti, 1854 ) and the City Planning Council ( İntizam-ı Şehir Komisyonu, 1855 ); the abolition of the capitation ( Jizya ) tax on non-Muslims, with a regular method of establishing and collecting taxes ( 1856 ); non-Muslims were allowed to become soldiers ( 1856 ); various provisions for the better administration of the public service and advancement of commerce ; the establishment of the first telegraph networks ( 1847 – 1855 ) and railroads ( 1856 ); the replacement of guilds with factories ; the establishment of the Ottoman Central Bank ( originally established as the Bank-ı Osmanî in 1856, and later reorganized as the Bank-ı Osmanî-i Şahane in 1863 ) and the Ottoman Stock Exchange ( Dersaadet Tahvilat Borsası, established in 1866 ); the Land Code ( Arazi Kanunnamesi, 1857 ); permission for private sector publishers and printing firms with the Serbesti-i Kürşad Nizamnamesi ( 1857 ); establishment of the School of Economical and Political Sciences ( Mekteb-i Mülkiye, 1859 ); the Press and Journalism Regulation Code ( Matbuat Nizamnamesi, 1864 ); among others.

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.

The first minstrel group was probably the Virginia Minstrels, who performing in 1843 in New York City ( Chase, 232 ), though E. P. Christy's four-man show in Buffalo, New York the year before is another contender.

He began his career as a minstrel in Buffalo, New York, and toured upstate New York from 1843 to 1845.

The blackface troupe the Virginia Minstrels popularized " Old Dan Tucker " in 1843, and it quickly became a minstrel hit, behind only " Miss Lucy Long " and " Mary Blane " in popularity during the antebellum period.

The first sheet music edition of " Old Dan Tucker ", published in 1843, is a song of boasts and nonsense in the vein of previous minstrel hits such as " Jump Jim Crow " and " Gumbo Chaff ".

Robert Winans found the song on 49 % of the minstrel playbills he surveyed from the 1843 – 1847 period ( behind only " Miss Lucy Long "), and research by musicologist William J. Mahar suggests that it was behind only " Mary Blane " and " Lucy Long " in its frequency of publication in antebellum songsters.