In 1843, with the publication of the work of William H. Prescott, it was adopted by most of the world, including 19th century Mexican scholars who saw it as a way to distinguish present-day Mexicans from pre-conquest Mexicans.

The city was founded in 1850 by William McDaniel, on a part of the 1843 Mexican land grant Rancho Los Putos purchased from Manuel Cabeza Vaca.

Between 1843 and 1846, during the era when California was a province of independent Mexico, five Mexican land grants were made in what became San Joaquin County: Campo de los Franceses, Pescadero ( Grimes ), Pescadero ( Pico ), Sanjon de los Moquelumnes and Thompson.

Between 1843 and 1846 when California was a province of independent Mexico, five Mexican land grants of a total of, or over forty-four square miles were granted in Stanislaus County.

Originally part of a Mexican land grant deeded to John Sutter, the Rancho Del Paso grant was negotiated from the Mexican governor by John Sutter on August 10, 1843.

In 1843 José Joaquín Ortega and his son-in-law, Edward Stokes, received the Rancho Valle de Pamo Mexican land grant.

Santa Paula is located on the 1843 Rancho Santa Paula y Saticoy Mexican land grant.

Guadalupe Victoria ( 29 September 1786 – 21 March 1843 ), born José Miguel Ramón Adaucto Fernández y Félix, was a Mexican politician and military officer who fought for independence against the Spanish Empire in the Mexican War of Independence.

Governor Manuel Micheltorena made a Mexican land grant of the island of Santa Rosa to brothers José Antonio Carrillo and Carlos Antonio Carrillo in 1843.

Moore and two other Texas ships, along with a few from the Yucatán navy, engaged the Mexican fleet in May 1843 in the Battle of Campeche.

In 1843, the Mexican government made grants for the land that became three ranches: the Rancho Los Alamos y Agua Caliente ; the Rancho El Tejon ; and the Rancho Castac.

Like Sutter, he acquired Mexican citizenship ( 1844 ) and applied for a land grant ( 1843 ) of 5 square leagues on the south bank of Deer Creek in what is now Butte County, California.

* October 27 – Stevens Thomson Mason, first governor of Michigan ( d. 1843 )

When formed in 1843, Texas County was named after William H. Ashley, the first lieutenant governor of Missouri, but when the county was officially organized on February 14, 1845, it was renamed for the Republic of Texas.

In 1843, he was appointed by the governor of Rhode Island agent to examine the public schools of the state, and recommended improvements ; and his work resulted in the reorganization of the school system two years later.

Self-government was another important question of the day, the first step towards this objective having occurred in 1843, when an enlarged Legislative Council was sworn in, consisting partly of nominated and partly of elected members, and the powers of the governor were much restricted as a consequence.

It was renamed as the Thomason College of Civil Engineering in 1854 in honour of its founder, Sir James Thomason, lieutenant governor 1843 – 53.

* Joseph F. Johnston ( 1843 – 1913 ), governor of Alabama, 1896 – 1900

* John Davis ( Massachusetts governor ) ( 1787 – 1854 ), Governor of Massachusetts, 1834 – 1835 ; 1841 – 1843

He won election to the New Jersey Legislative Council representing Sussex County in 1839 and 1840, and was elected to be governor in 1843.

* John Cummins Edwards ( 1804 – 1888 ), American politician ; Democrat from Missouri ; Congress at-large ( 1841 – 1843 ); governor ( 1844 – 1848 )

In 1843, the French declared Tahiti a French protectorate and installed a governor at Papeete.

At 35, he was the youngest governor of New Zealand since George Grey was appointed in 1845 and the first since Robert FitzRoy in 1843 to have no previous experience in a vice-regal position.

Stevens Thomson Mason ( October 27, 1811January 4, 1843 ), also known as Stevens T. Mason, Tom Mason, The Boy Governor, and lesser known nicknames Young Hotspur and The Stripling, was the territorial governor of the Michigan Territory, and later the first Governor of the state of Michigan.

* Stevens T. Mason ( 1811 – 1843 ), territorial governor of the Michigan Territory, first governor of the state of Michigan

It was discovered in the early 1840's and described by John Gould in London in 1843, on the basis of three specimens sent to him by George Grey, the governor of South Australia at the time.

Paredes was military governor of Jalisco from 3 November 1841 to 28 January 1843.

Appointed governor of Adrianople in 1843, he returned as ambassador to Paris in the same year.

In 1843 Spain formally made him governor of Fernando Po and two other Spanish possessions.

Jan Maximiliaan van Tuyll ( 1771 – 1843 ) was the governor of Utrecht and then the first governor of North Holland.

He saw some service against the Carlists ; was elected deputy to the Cortes of 1836 ; took part for Baldomero Espartero, Count of Luchana, and then against him ; was imprisoned in 1843 ; went into exile and returned ; was governor of Barcelona in 1854, and minister of finance in 1855 ; had a large share in secularizing the Church lands ; and after the revolution of 1868 was governor of Madrid.

The Cross of St Cuthbert features as the principal charge on the coat of arms of the University of Durham, granted in 1843, blazoned Argent, a Cross of St Cuthbert Gules, on a canton Azure, a chevron Or, between three lions rampant of the first (' A red Cross of St Cuthbert on a silver shield with three little silver fighting lions around a gold chevron on a blue square in the top left-hand corner ').

Following independent Mexico's secularization of the Alta California missions from 1834 to 1843, the buildings of La Purisima Mission were abandoned, and the lands were granted Rancho Ex-Mission la Purisima.

Shortly thereafter, in 1843 he was granted a Danish Royal Charter and what would later become Burmeister & Wain was launched with the opening of a mechanical workshop in Copenhagen.

It was granted a state charter in 1843 ; throughout the next few years it was a stop along the way for emigrants seeking the major trailheads to the Oregon and Santa Fe trails.

* 1843, February 2: The arms were granted

Eventually his subjects ’ demands for a Constitution proved overwhelming and in the face of an armed but peaceful insurrection, Otto granted a Constitution in 1843.

The arms were granted on February 24, 1819 and confirmed on July 21, 1843.

The £ 2, 000 was held by the Conservators until 1838, when they applied for an order to dispose of it, but it was not until 1843 that the order was granted.

He gave up his career, and after nine months of marriage they separated and a Decree nisi was granted in 1843.

A further charter in 1843 granted it the present title of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

A second Royal Charter was granted in 1843 by Queen Victoria, and the title of ' Royal ' was conferred in 1869.

From 1837 he resumed his command of the 12th Division in Nantes a position he held until 1843 when he moved to Paris to retire and was granted the title marshal of France on April 9, 1843.

In 1843, Queen Victoria granted the Society its Royal Charter.

In 1843, Chivas Brothers were granted a Royal Warrant to supply goods to Queen Victoria.

However, only when parcels of land were leased or granted to the public in and after 1843 for the building of houses and shophouses, did Chinatown's physical development truly begin.

His improved method for electroplating fine and fragile objects, such as flowers, was granted a patent in 1843.

The colonial badge was in use since 1843 in one version or another until it was replaced by the coat of arms granted in 1959.

The lake was named for the first European settlers in the Berryessa Valley, José Jesús and Sexto " Sisto " Berrelleza ( a Basque surname, Anglicized to Berreyesa then later respelled Berryessa ), who were granted Rancho Las Putas in 1843.