1841

Events

   * January 26 - The United Kingdom occupies Hong Kong.
   * February 18 - The first ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate
     begins and lasts until March 11.
   * March 9 - The United States Supreme Court 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.
   * August 16 - US 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 US history.

   * First census of Hong Kong recorded a population of about 7,500.
   * Change of President of the United States from Martin Van Buren
     (1837-1841) to William Henry Harrison (1841) and then to John Tyler
     (1841-1845)
   * The two colonies of the Canadas are merged into the Province of Canada.

Births

   * January 14 - Berthe Morisot, Impressionist Painter d.+ 1895)
   * January 28 - Henry Morton Stanley, explorer, journalist (d. 1904)
   * February 25 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, a French painter (d. 1919)
   * March 8 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Supreme Court justice (d. 1935)
   * May 10 - James Gordon Bennett, Jr., newspaper publisher (d. 1918)
   * November 9 - Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII of
     the United Kingdom
   * Clˇment Ader - french engineer and inventor

Deaths

   * February 11 - J.H. Ferdinand Olivier, German painter
   * April 4 - William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States
   * May 20 - Joseph Blanco White, British theologian
   * May 23 - Franz Xaver von Baader - A German philosopher and theologian

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