The lyrics written in 1841 describe a then – disunited Germany with the river as its western boundary, where King William I of the Netherlands had joined the German Confederation with his Duchy of Limburg in 1839.

In 1841, Engels joined the Prussian Army as a member of the Household Artillery.

Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900 ; Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841, became an official divinity school of the university in 1901 ; Goldsmiths College joined in 1904 ; Imperial College was founded in 1907 ; Queen Mary College joined in 1915 ; the School of Oriental and African Studies was founded in 1916 ; and Birkbeck joined in 1920.

He was joined the following year by Samuel Newell ( 1754 – 1841 ), who established Newell's Station along Boyd's Creek, and Joshua Gist, who settled near the creek's mouth.

In 1841 he joined a travelling company that was going to Italy.

When the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal was opened in 1827 it joined the River Parrett by a lock at Huntworth, where a basin was constructed, but in 1841 the canal was extended to a floating harbour in Bridgwater, and the Huntworth link was filled in.

In 1841 he joined Arthur Wakefield on the expedition that led to the founding of Nelson.

The Elkingtons opened a new electroplating works in Newhall Street, in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham in 1841, and the following year Josiah Mason, a pen manufacturer, joined the firm and encouraged the Elkingtons to diversify their output, adding more affordable electroplated jewellery and cutlery to the large pieces the company had been producing.

He became Lord Privy Seal in Sir Robert Peel's short 1834 to 1835 ministry, and again joined him in 1841 as Lord President of the Council, a post he held until 1845.

In May 1841, Robert B. Thompson joined as an editor.

* 1841 Brunswick joined.

These first settlers eventually left the island when they were bought out for £ 350 in September 1841 by businessmen Owen Poole and Richard Dawson ( later joined by John Foulis ) whose employees and others now settled on the island.

Subsequently Baring was sworn of the Privy Council and joined the cabinet as Chancellor of the Exchequer, serving until the fall of the Melbourne government in August 1841.

Edward's military career began in 1841, when he joined the 67th ( South Hampshire ) Regiment of Foot as an ensign.

In 1838 he joined the ship in the Mediterranean until 1841.

He joined the Bavarian civil service in 1841 as an apprentice engineer in the design of railroad bridges.

He was called to the bar in 1841 and joined the home circuit.

There were 15 inmates at the 1841 census, but the number rose considerably in 1845, when the Brassington Poor Law Union was wound up and Brassington joined the new Ashbourne Union.

In December 1841, he joined the Government Survey Office.

After finishing their schooling in 1841, the older girls joined the family at Fort Simpson.

In the spring of 1841 Wilson joined Archibald Campbell Tait in the ‘ protest of the four tutors ’ against John Henry Newman's Tract XC.

In 1841 it had reached as far as Camp Hill where it joined the London and Birmingham Railway to the latter's Curzon Street terminus in Birmingham.

In 1841 the Bartleson-Bidwell Party was the first emigrant group credited with using the Oregon Trail to emigrate west.

In 1841 the Liberals lost office to the Conservative Party under Sir Robert Peel, but their period in opposition was short, because the Conservatives split over the repeal of the Corn Laws, a free trade issue, and a faction known as the Peelites ( but not Peel himself, who died soon after ), defected to the Liberal side.

The county was organized January 29, 1841 as Kinderhook County and renamed in 1843 for Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Chancellor of England, and leader of the Whig Party.

* Charles Eckhart ( 1841 – 1915 ), industrialist and philanthropist, founded the Eckhart Carriage Company, predecessor of the Auburn Automobile Company, and was Prohibition Party candidate for Governor of Indiana in 1900.

* August 16, 1841: President Tyler's veto of a bill to re-establish the Second Bank of the United States led Whig Party members to riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U. S. history.

Joaquín Sinforiano de Jesús Crespo Torres (; 22 August 1841 – 16 April 1898 ) was a politician, soldier, a member of the Great Liberal Party of Venezuela and President of Venezuela from 1884 to 1886 and again from 1892 to 1898.

Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich ( November 6, 1841 – April 16, 1915 ) was a prominent American politician and a leader of the Republican Party in the Senate, where he served from 1881 to 1911.

Adams was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1841, served in the state senate 1844 – 1845, founded and edited the journal Boston Whig in 1846, and was the unsuccessful nominee of the Free Soil Party for Vice President of the United States in 1848.

Fernando Wood ( June 14, 1812 – February 14, 1881 ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party and mayor of New York City ; he also served as a United States Representative ( 1841 – 1843, 1863 – 1865, and 1867 – 1881 ) and as Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means in both the 45th and 46th Congress ( 1877 – 1881 ).

Porter easily won re-election in 1841 over John Banks, the first Whig gubernatorial candidate to run without a coalition with the Anti-Masonic Party.

* Charles Wilson ( British Columbia politician ) ( 1841 – 1924 ), 19th-century member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly, first leader of the British Columbia Conservative Party

He was Home Secretary from 1822 to 1827 and 1828 to 1830, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1834 to 1835 and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1834 to 1835 and from 1841 to 1846 and is best remembered for creating the modern concept of the police force while Home Secretary, for overseeing the formation of the Conservative Party out of the shattered Tory Party, and for the repeal of the Corn Laws.

When the Whig Party came to power in 1841 with the election of William Henry Harrison, Schoolcraft lost his political position as Indian agent.

He was selected by the Democratic Party to run for Governor in 1841.

* Henry Charles Stephens, 1841 – 1918, Henry Stephens's son who developed the ink business and became a Conservative Party politician.

In the 1841 general election Ormsby-Gore was elected unopposed as a Conservative Party MP for County Sligo.

Edward Crossley ( 1841 – 21 January 1905 ) was an English businessman, Liberal Party politician and astronomer.

* 1841: The Upper Canada Reform Party is formed

The Sonderbund alliance was concluded after the Radical Party, with the approval of a majority of cantons, had taken measures against the Catholic Church such as the closure of monasteries and convents in Aargau in 1841, and the seizure of their properties.

Alexander Loyd ( also Alexander Lloyd ) ( August 19, 1805 – May 7, 1872 ))) served one term as mayor of Chicago, Illinois from 1840 until 1841 for the Democratic Party.

Francis Cornwall Sherman ( September 18, 1805November 7, 1870 ; buried in Graceland Cemetery ) served as Mayor of Chicago, Illinois three terms ( 1841 – 1842, 1862 – 1865 ) for the Democratic Party.

The Sonderbund ( German: separate alliance ) was concluded after the Radical Party had taken power in Switzerland and had, thanks to the Protestant majority of cantons, taken measures against the Catholic Church such as the closure of monasteries and convents in Aargau in 1841.

In 1837 he exhibited ' The Meeting of His Majesty's Staghounds on Ascot Heath ,' painted for the Earl of Chesterfield, and in 1839 ' The Melton Hunt ,' purchased by the Duke of Wellington ( both of these have been engraved, the former by F. Bromley, the latter by W. Humphreys ). In 1841, he painted ' A Shooting Party at Rawton Abbey ' for the Earl of Lichfield, and in 1848 ' The Cottesmore Hunt ' for Sir Richard Sutton.

Wilson came to California with the Workman-Rowland Party in 1841 seeking passage to China.