1841

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Year 1841 (MDCCCXLI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

1 Events of 1841
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2 Births
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[edit] Events of 1841

January 25 - Charles Elliot of Britain and Kei Sin of Qing signed the Convention of Chuenpeh.
January 26 - The United Kingdom occupies Hong Kong. Later during the year, the first census of the island recorded a population of about 75,000.
January 30 - A fire ruins and destroys two-thirds of the then villa (now city) of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
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.
March 29 - Bishopton railway station is opened.
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, who becomes the 10th President of the United States.
April 6 - President John Tyler is sworn in.
May 11 - Lt. Charles Wilkes lands at Fort Nisqually in Puget Sound.
August 16 - U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-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.
September 24 - United Kingdom annexes Sarawak from Brunei; James Brooke is appointed rajah.
October 16 - Queen's University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, by Rev. Thomas Liddell, who carried a Royal Charter from Queen Victoria and became the school's first principal.
October 30 - a fire at the Tower of London destroys its Grand Armoury and causes a quarter of a million pounds worth of damage.
November 13 - James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis.

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The two colonies of the Canadas are merged into the Province of Canada.
Fordham University is founded in The Bronx by the Society of Jesus. Its name at founding is St. John's College.
August Borsig builds the first German locomotive.
The city of Dallas, Texas is founded by John Neely Bryan.
John Augustus develops the concept of probation.
Sir Richard Owen invents the term "dinosaur."

[edit] Ongoing events

First Opium War (1839-1842)

[edit] Births

**1841 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1841 MDCCCXLI
Ab urbe condita	2594
Armenian calendar	1290 ԹՎ ՌՄՂ
Bahá'í calendar	-3 – -2
Berber calendar	2791
Buddhist calendar	2385
Burmese calendar	1203
Chinese calendar	4477/4537-12-9 (庚子年十二月初九日) — to — 4478/4538-11-19 (辛丑年十一月十九日)
Coptic calendar	1557 – 1558
Ethiopian calendar	1833 – 1834
Hebrew calendar	5601 – 5602
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1896 – 1897
- Shaka Samvat	1763 – 1764
- Kali Yuga	4942 – 4943
Holocene calendar	11841
Iranian calendar	1219 – 1220
Islamic calendar	1256 – 1257
Japanese calendar	Tenpō 12 (天保12年)
Korean calendar	4174
Thai solar calendar	2384
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