1843 in the United States

Events from the year 1843 in the United States.

Incumbents

• President: John Tyler (Whig/none)
• Vice President: vacant
• Chief Justice: Roger B. Taney
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: John White (Whig-Kentucky) (until March 4), John Winston Jones (D-Virginia) (starting December 4)
• Congress: 27th (until March 4), 28th (starting March 4)

Events

• February 6 – The Virginia Minstrels perform the first minstrel show (Bowery Amphitheatre, New York City).
• March 21 – The world does not end, contrary to the first prediction by American preacher William Miller.
• April 30-May 16 - Naval Battle of Campeche: Naval Battle between the Mexican Navy versus the Texas Navy and the Yucatán Navy. The battle featured the most advanced warships of its day.
• May 22 – The first major wagon train headed for the American Northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri on the Oregon Trail.
• July 1 – Ulysses S. Grant graduates from West Point 21st from a class of 39.
• August 23 - The President of Santa Anna announced that the annexation of Texas by the United States would be considered an act of war by Mexico.
• October 13 – In New York City, Henry Jones and 11 others found B'nai B'rith (the oldest Jewish service organization in the world).
• November 28 – Ka La Ku'oko'a (Hawaiian Independence Day): The Kingdom of Hawai`i is officially recognized by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and July Monarchy France as an independent nation.

Undated

• Saint Louis University School of Law becomes the first law school west of the Mississippi River
• Abbeville, Louisiana is founded by descendants of Acadians from Nova Scotia.
• Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart is first published.

Births

Deaths

External links

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