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Special Events for the Year 1841 - back to GREGSITE
| Born : | 01/30/1841 | Alfred Townsend George, Civil War journalist, died in 1914 |
| Born : | 09/08/1841 | Antonn Dvork, Nelahozeves Czech, composer (New World Symphony) |
| Born : | 02/12/1841 | Bert van Tienhoven, mayor of Amsterdam/foreign minister |
| Born : | 03/01/1841 | Blanche Kelso Bruce, Virginia, (Sen-Miss, 1875-1881) |
| Born : | 05/24/1841 | Charles Napier Henry, painter |
| Born : | 02/04/1841 | Clment Ader, French inventor (1st to fly a heavier-than-air craft) |
| Born : | 07/11/1841 | Danil de Longe, composer |
| Born : | 05/11/1841 | Earnest von Possart, German actor/stage manager/reciter |
| Born : | 07/04/1841 | Edward Gailliard, Flemish linguist/archaeologicalist |
| Born : | 07/23/1841 | Edward John Armstrong, poet |
| Born : | 12/20/1841 | Ferdinand-douard Buisson, France, educator (Nobel Peace Prize 1927) |
| Born : | 07/31/1841 | George Melville, polar explorer, naval engineer |
| Born : | 09/28/1841 | Georges Clemenceau, France, PM (1906-09, 17-20, defended Dreyfuss) |
| Born : | 01/28/1841 | Henry Stanley, journalist/explorer (found Livingston in Africa) |
| Born : | 09/13/1841 | Johannes de Koo, journalist/songwriter |
| Born : | 03/03/1841 | John Murray, Canada oceanographer (Depths of the Ocean) |
| Born : | 11/12/1841 | John W Rayleigh, England, physicist (Nobel 1904)/Cambridge (1908-14) |
| Born : | 01/15/1841 | Lord Frederick Stanley, presenter of hockey's Stanley Cup |
| Born : | 07/04/1841 | Marie von Wied, Princess of Orange Nassau |
| Born : | 10/07/1841 | Nicolaas Petrovic Njegos, king of Montenegro (1910-18) |
| Born : | 03/08/1841 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mass, 59th Supreme Court justice (1902-32) |
| Born : | 04/25/1841 | Pauline Lucca, soprano |
| Born : | 02/25/1841 | Pierre Auguste Renoir, France, Impressionist painter/sculptor |
| Born : | 07/24/1841 | Raimundo Madrazo y Garretta, painter |
| Born : | 05/20/1841 | Sara Louisa Oberholtz, social reformer, anti-smoking advocate |
| Born : | 08/25/1841 | Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, thyroid specialist (Nobel 1909) |
| Born : | 05/24/1841 | Tito Mattei, pianist/composer |
| Born : | 11/20/1841 | Wilfrid Laurier, (L) 7th Canadian PM (1896-1911) |
| Born : | 02/01/1841 | William H H Davenport, Buffalo, stage medium |
| Born : | 07/11/1841 | William Paul Roberts, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1910 |
| Born : | 11/09/1841 | [Albert] Edward VII, king of England (1901-10) |
| Died : | 11/01/1841 | Antoine PFGdV Celles, Belgium/Dutch/French 2nd Chamber, dies |
| Died : | 08/13/1841 | Bernhard Romberg, German cellist/composer, dies |
| Died : | 02/11/1841 | J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter, dies |
| Died : | 08/14/1841 | Johann Friedrich Herbart, philospher, dies |
| Died : | 05/20/1841 | Joseph Blanco White, theological writert, dies |
| Died : | 07/27/1841 | Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, poet/novelist, dies |
| Died : | 11/14/1841 | Thomas Bruce, Count of Elgin & Kincardine, British diplomat, dies |
| Died : | 04/04/1841 | William Henry Harrison, becomes 1st pres to die in office, at 68 |
| Interest: | 04/28/1841 | [RC] Memorial of St Peter Chanel, priest/martyr (opt) |
| Special : | 04/26/1841 | "Bombay Gazette" begins publishing |
| Special : | 06/14/1841 | 1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario |
| Special : | 03/27/1841 | 1st US steam fire engine tested, NYC |
| Special : | 11/26/1841 | 1st date in James Clavell's novel Tai-Pan |
| Special : | 04/20/1841 | 1st detective story (Poe's "Murders in Rue Morgue") published |
| Special : | 05/01/1841 | 1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri for Calif |
| Special : | 11/25/1841 | 35 Amistad survivors return to Africa |
| Special : | 11/02/1841 | Akbar Khan successfully revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan |
| Special : | 12/31/1841 | Alabama becomes 1st state to license dental surgeons |
| Special : | 09/24/1841 | Britain obtains Sarawak from Brunei (James Brooke appointed Rajah) |
| Special : | 07/17/1841 | British humor magazine "Punch" 1st published |
| Special : | 01/20/1841 | China cedes Hong Kong to the British |
| Special : | 04/06/1841 | Cornerstone laid for 2nd Mormon temple, Nauvoo, Missouri |
| Special : | 03/22/1841 | Cornstarch patented (Orlando Jones) |
| Special : | 08/09/1841 | Erie boat in Buffalo NY catches fire; 242 die |
| Special : | 06/24/1841 | Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx |
| Special : | 09/09/1841 | Great Lakes steamer "Erie" sinks off Silver Creek NY, kills 300 |
| Special : | 01/26/1841 | Hong Kong proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain |
| Special : | 01/05/1841 | James Clark Ross (UK) is 1st to enter pack ice near Ross Ice Shelf |
| Special : | 08/21/1841 | John Hampson patents venetian blind |
| Special : | 03/04/1841 | Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison |
| Special : | 11/16/1841 | N.E. Guerin of NY patents cork-filled life preserver |
| Special : | 03/22/1841 | Orlando Jones patents cornstarch |
| Special : | 10/16/1841 | Queens University in Kingston is chartered |
| Special : | 07/05/1841 | Thomas Cook opens 1st travel agency |
| Special : | 03/09/1841 | US Supreme Court rules Negroes are free (Amistad Incident) |
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