1841
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| Years: 1838 1839 1840 - 1841 - 1842 1843 1844 | |
| Decades: 1810s 1820s 1830s - 1840s - 1850s 1860s 1870s | |
| Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century | |
1841 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
- January 26 - The United Kingdom occupies Hong Kong. Later during the year, the first census of the island recorded a population of about 7,500.
- February 18 - The first ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate begins and lasts until March 11.
- March 4 - Martin Van Buren, President of the United States is succeeded by William Henry Harrison.
- March 9 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Amistad case that the Africans who seized control of the ship had been taken into slavery illegally.
- April 4 - President William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia becoming the first President of the United States to die in office and at one month, the elected president with the shortest term served. He is succeeded by Vice President John Tyler.
- August 16 - U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
- The two colonies of the Canadas are merged into the Province of Canada.
- Scroll and Key secret society of Yale University established.
- With the help of industrial espionage, August Borsig builds the first German locomotives.
Births
- January 14 - Berthe Morisot, French painter (d. 1895)
- January 25 - Jackie Fisher, British admiral (d. 1920)
- January 28 - Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh explorer and journalist (d. 1904)
- February 2 - François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (d. 1912)
- February 4 - Clément Ader, French engineer, inventor, and airplane pioneer (d. 1926)
- February 25 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter (d. 1919)
- March 8 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., United States Supreme Court justice (d. 1935)
- April 13 - Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (d. 1905)
- May 10 - James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (d. 1918)
- August 25 - Emil Kocher, Swiss medical researcher (d. 1917)
- September 8 - Antonin Dvorak, Czech composer (d. 1904)
- September 28 - Georges Clemenceau, French statesman (d. 1929)
- October 7 - King Nicholas I of Montenegro (d. 1921)
- November 6 - Nelson W. Aldrich, Senator from Rhode Island (d. 1915)
- November 9 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
- November 20 - Wilfrid Laurier, seventh Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1919)
- December 6 - Frédéric Bazille, French painter (d. 1870)
Deaths
- February 11 - J.H. Ferdinand Olivier, German painter
- April 4 - William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States (b. 1773)
- April 28 - Peter Chanel, French Roman Catholic missionary (martyred) (b. 1803)
- May 20 - Joseph Blanco White, British theologian (b. 1775)
- May 23 - Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1765)
- August 24 - Theodore Edward Hook, English author (b. 1788)af:1841
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