What happened in 1843

20 events　World 2, North America 4, Europe 10, Asia 1, Latin America 3

Highlights of 1843

Feb 3Latin AmericaUruguayan Civil War: Argentina supports Oribe of Uruguay, and begins a siege of Montevideo.
Mar 13North AmericaCatawba County, North Carolina is created, and its first court is held in Mathias Barringer Jr.'s house.
Mar 24AsiaBattle of Hyderabad: The Bombay Army, led by Major General Sir Charles Napier, defeats the Talpur Mirs, securing Sindh as a province of British India.
May 4WorldNatal is proclaimed a British colony.
Sep 2EuropeThe Economist newspaper is first published in London (preliminary issue dated August).
WorldKurdish leader Bedir Khan Beg launched an expedition against the Assyrians in the Hakkari region.Thousands of Assyrians were massacred during the campaign.

May 4Natal is proclaimed a British colony.
Kurdish leader Bedir Khan Beg launched an expedition against the Assyrians in the Hakkari region.Thousands of Assyrians were massacred during the campaign.

JanEdgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" is published in The Pioneer, a Boston magazine.
Mar 13Catawba County, North Carolina is created, and its first court is held in Mathias Barringer Jr.'s house.
Jun 21Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Gold-Bug" begins serialization in American newspapers.
Dec 9Bishop's University is founded as Bishop's College by Bishop George Jehoshaphat Mountain in Lennoxville, Quebec, for the education of members of the Church of England.

JanSerial publication of Charles Dickens's novel Martin Chuzzlewit begins in London; in the July chapters, he lands his hero in the United States.
Feb 8The 1843 Guadeloupe Earthquake hits the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, killing 1,500–5,000 people.
Feb 11Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi alla prima crociata premieres at La Scala in Milan.
Mar 25Marc Isambard Brunel's Thames Tunnel, the first tunnel under the River Thames and the world's first bored underwater tunnel, is opened in London for pedestrians.
May 18In Edinburgh, the Free Church of Scotland is disrupted from the Church of Scotland.
JulSeptember 15 (Sept. 3, O.S.) – A Popular uprising in Athens, Greece, including citizens and military captains, demands from King Otto a liberal Constitution from the state, which has been governed since independence (1830) by various domestic and foreign business interests.
Sep 2The Economist newspaper is first published in London (preliminary issue dated August).
Oct 16Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton discovers the calculus of quaternions and deduces that they are non-commutative.
Oct 16Søren Kierkegaard's philosophical book Fear and Trembling is first published, in Denmark.
Dec 19Charles Dickens's novella A Christmas Carol is first published in London, England. Released on December 19, it sells out by Christmas Eve.

Mar 24Battle of Hyderabad: The Bombay Army, led by Major General Sir Charles Napier, defeats the Talpur Mirs, securing Sindh as a province of British India.

Feb 3Uruguayan Civil War: Argentina supports Oribe of Uruguay, and begins a siege of Montevideo.
Aug 1Brazil becomes the second country, after Great Britain, to issue nationally valid postage stamps, with the release of its Bull's Eye series.
Oct 30Fuerte Bulnes, the first Chilean settlement in the strait of Magellan, is founded.