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See also:	History of the United States (1789–1849) Timeline of the history of the United States (1820-1859) List of years in the United States

Events from the year1843 in the United States.

• President:John Tyler (I-Virginia)
• Vice President:vacant
• Chief Justice:Roger B. Taney (Maryland)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives:

John White (W-Kentucky) (until March 4)

John Winston Jones (D-Virginia) (starting December 4)

• Congress:27th (until March 4),28th (starting March 4)

• January –Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" is first published.
• February 6 – TheVirginia Minstrels perform the firstminstrel show (Bowery Amphitheatre,New York City).
• March 21 – The world does not end, contrary to the first prediction by American preacherWilliam Miller.

• April 30–May 16 –Naval Battle of Campeche: Naval Battle between theMexican Navy versus theTexas Navy and theYucatán Navy. The battle features the most advanced warships of its day.
• May 7 –Nakahama Manjirō lands inNew Bedford, Massachusetts, the first known Japanese in the United States.
• May 22 – The first majorwagon train for the American Northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers fromElm Grove, Missouri on theOregon Trail.
• June 1–December –Fruitlands (transcendental center) inHarvard, Massachusetts, led byBronson Alcott andCharles Lane, functions

• July 1 –Ulysses S. Grant graduates fromWest Point 21st from a class of 39.
• July 12 –Origin of Latter Day Saint polygamy:Joseph Smith, founder of theLatter Day Saint movement, receives a revelation recommendingpolygamy.
• August 19 –Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Black Cat" is first published, inThe Saturday Evening Post.
• August 23 – Mexican PresidentAntonio López de Santa Anna announces that the annexation ofTexas by the United States would be considered an act of war by Mexico.

• October –College of the Holy Cross opens as a boys' school inWorcester, Massachusetts, the first Jesuit college in New England.
• October 13 – InNew York City,Henry Jones and 11 others foundB'nai B'rith, the oldestJewish service organization in the world.
• November 28 –Ka La Ku'oko'a (Hawaiian Independence Day): TheKingdom of Hawai`i is officially recognized by theUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland andJuly Monarchy France as an independent nation.
• December 1 –Benjamin Fitzpatrick is sworn in for his second term as the 11thgovernor of Alabama.^[1]
• December 19 – "A Christmas Carol", by Charles Dickens, was first published on December 19, 1843, with the first edition sold out by Christmas Eve. By 1844, the novella had gone through 13 printings and continues to be a robust seller more than 175 years later.^[2]

• Saint Louis University School of Law becomes the first law school west of theMississippi River
• Abbeville, Louisiana is founded by descendants ofAcadians fromNova Scotia.

• January 6 –John Coit Spooner, politician (died1919)
• January 8
  • John H. Moffitt, politician (died1926)
  • Letitia Stevenson, wife ofAdlai Stevenson I,Second Lady of the United States (died1913)
• January 10 –Frank James, outlaw (died1915)
• January 15 –William H. Harries, Representative in the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota (died1921)
• January 16 –George E. Gard, sheriff (died1904)
• January 29 –William McKinley, 25thpresident of the United States from 1897 to 1901 (died1901)
• February 2 –Knute Nelson, Norway-born 12th governor of Minnesota from 1893 to 1895 and U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1895 to 1923 (died1923)
• February 3 –William Cornelius Van Horne, North American railway magnate (died1915 in Canada)
• February 7 –John B. Babcock, U.S. Army officer (died1909)
• February 9 –Andrew Traynor, soldier (died1920)
• February 15 –Russell Conwell,Baptist minister (died1925)^[3]
• February 27
  • Thomas Hammond, politician (died1909)
  • Thomas Lowry, lawyer and businessman (died1909)
• March 8 –Arthur Brown, U.S. Senator from Utah from 1896 to 1897 (died1906)
• March 17 –Henry Ware Lawton, general (died1899)
• March 23 –Joseph F. Johnston, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1907 to 1913 (died1913)
• April 4 –William Henry Jackson, explorer and photographer (died1942)
• April 8 –Howard Roberts, sculptor (died1900)
• April 15 –Henry James, fiction writer (died1916)
• May 6 –G. K. Gilbert, geologist (died1918)
• June 4 –Charles Conrad Abbott, archaeologist and naturalist (died1919)
• June 6 –Russell J. Waters, U.S. Representative from California (died1911)
• April 25 –Dwight M. Sabin, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1883 to 1889 (died1902)
• July 15 –Alfred W. Benson, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1906 to 1907 (died1916)
• July 19 –Francis J. Higginson, U.S. Navy admiral (died1931)
• June 29 –Charles Warren Stone, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania (died1912)
• August 1 –Robert Todd Lincoln, statesman and businessman, son ofAbraham Lincoln (died1926)
• August 19 –C. I. Scofield, theologian (died1921)
• September 25 –Melville Reuben Bissell, entrepreneur, inventor of theCarpet sweeper (died1889)
• October 28 –Julia Anna Orum, educator, lecturer, and author (died1904)
• November 23 –Henry C. Payne, politician (died1904)
• November 25 –Henry Ware Eliot, industrialist and philanthropist (died1919)
• November 26 –Charles A. Chickering, representative of New York (died1900)
• November 27 –Cornelius Vanderbilt II, railroad magnate (died1899)
• November 30 –Martha Ripley, physician (died1912)^[4]
• December 28 –Prentiss Ingraham, military officer and author of dime fiction (died1904)

• January 11 –Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star-Spangled Banner" (born1779)
• March 27 –Samuel McRoberts, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1841 to 1843 (born1799)
• March 31 –George A. Waggaman, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1831 to 1835 (born1782)
• April 1 –John Armstrong Jr., 7th United States Secretary of War (born1758)
• April 17 –Samuel Morey, inventor (born1762)
• April 25 –John McCracken Robinson, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1830 to 1841 (born1794)
• May 28 –Noah Webster, lexicographer (born1758)
• July 7 –John Holmes, Maine politician (born1773)
• July 9 –Washington Allston, painter, the "American Titian", and poet (born1779)
• August –Sequoyah, creator of the Cherokee syllabary (b. c.1767)
• August 10 –Robert Adrain, mathematician (born1775 in Ireland)
• September 11 –Joseph Nicollet, geographer (born1786 in France)
• September 30 –Richard Harlan, zoologist (born1796)
• November 10 –John Trumbull, painter (born1756)

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