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unusual facts about 1841


Dinajpur Government College

The Library of Dinajpur College was established in 1841 at the time of establishment of the College.


Adolf Pfister

In 1838 he obtained civic rights in Württemberg, and as a priest of the Diocese of Rottenburg, he was pastor first in Dotternhausen; 31 January 1839, at Rosawangen; 11 May 1841, at Risstissen; from 1851 also school inspector in Ehingen.

Alexander Chuprov

Alexander Ivanovich Chuprov (1841–1908), Russian professor of political economy and statistics at Moscow University

Alonzo Potter

He edited many reprints and collections of sermons and lectures, and wrote: Political Economy (with Johann Ludwig Tellkampf, New York, 1840), The Principles of Science applied to the Domestic and Mechanic Arts (1841), Handbook for Readers and Students (1843), and Religious Philosophy (1870).

BBC Radio Leicester

This new centre is adjacent to the medieval Guildhall and Cathedral and includes many aspects of Leicester's history including Victorian tiles and an Undercroft (first revealed in 1841) with remains dating to Roman times.

Bishops in Foreign Countries Act 1841

The Bishops in Foreign Countries Act 1841 (5 Vict., c. 6) is an Act of Parliament passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom to enable the Church of England to create bishops overseas.

Catherine Murray, Countess of Dunmore

In 1841, Lady Dunmore was appointed a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria but resigned upon her husband's death four years later.

Cecil Ponsonby

John, 5th Earl of Bessborough, played five games in the 1830s; Frederick, the 6th Earl, played more than 70 games between 1834 and 1856, and was a founder of both Surrey and I Zingari; while Spencer appeared over 60 times between 1841 and 1862.

Chapin Hall

He moved to Pine Grove (now Russell), Warren County, Pennsylvania, about 1841 and engaged in the lumber business and mercantile pursuits.

Charles Knickerbocker Harley

The Arthur H. Cole Prize for the outstanding article in the Journal of Economic History, Sept. 1981-June 1982 for “British Industrialization Before 1841.He is a Professor of Economic History and an Emeritus Fellow at St Antony's College both at the University of Oxford.

Decimalisation

In 1841, the united Province of Canada's Governor General, Lord Sydenham, argued for establishment of a bank that would issue dollar currency (the Canadian dollar).

Edward Wilmot Pechey

Edward Pechey was born on 9 November 1841 in Langham near Colchester, Essex, England, the son of William Pechey and his wife Sarah (née Rotton).

Epileptic spasms

It is named after the English physician, William James West (1793–1848), who first described it in an article published in The Lancet in 1841.

Ernst Raupach

The historical dramas with which his name is chiefly associated are Die Hohenstaufen (1837–38), a cyclus of 15 dramatic pieces founded on Friedrich von Raumer's Geschichte der Hohenstaufen, and the trilogy Cromwell (1841–44).

First Unitarian Church of Chicago

Its first building was constructed in 1841 on what is now the site of the Picasso statue in Daley Plaza.

Francis Lascelles Jardine

Francis Lascelles (Frank) Jardine (28 August 1841 – 1919) was an Australian pioneer associated with the exploration and settlement of Far North Queensland.

Friedrich Prym

Friedrich Emil Fritz Prym (28 September 1841 Düren; 15 December 1915 Bonn) was a German mathematician who introduced Prym varieties and Prym differentials.

Graham baronets

The second Baronet was a prominent statesman and notably served under Lord John Russell as Home Secretary from 1841 to 1846.

Harry Powlett, 4th Duke of Cleveland

Vane entered the foreign service and held posts in Paris and Stockholm before entering the House of Commons in 1841 as a member for South Durham.

Heinrich LXIII, Prince Reuss of Köstritz

Prince Heinrich LXIII Reuss of Köstritz (18 June 1786, Berlin – 27 September 1841, Staniszów) was a member of the House of Reuss.

Ignaz Kuranda

With the assistance of Minister Nothomb and the author Hendrik Conscience he founded in 1841 the periodical Die Grenzboten; but on account of the obstacles which the Prussian government placed in the way of its circulation in Germany, Kuranda removed the headquarters of the paper to Leipzig, where it soon became an important factor in Austrian politics.

Jacob P. Leese

Leese continued the business alone until 1841, when he sold out to the Hudson's Bay Company and transferred his business and residence to Sonoma.

James Berry

James Henderson Berry (1841–1913), Governor and U.S. Senator of Arkansas

James R. Barton

Barton was born in Howard County, Missouri, emigrated to Mexico in 1841 and moved to Los Angeles in 1843.

John Colquhoun

John Campbell Colquhoun, British MP for Dunbartonshire, 1832–1835, Kilmarnock Burghs, 1837–1841, and Newcastle-under-Lyme, 1842–1847

John D. Fay

Fay participated with Stephen Clark in re-constructing the Long Bridge over the Potomac, and was a Resident Engineer on the New York State canals from 1841 to 1849.

John Hundley

Hundley was the namesake of his grandfather, the Reverend John Walker Hundley (1841–1914), a well known Baptist Minister in Virginia.

John Lewis Ricardo

In 1841 he married Catherine Duff (c.1820 – 1869), the daughter of General Sir Alexander Duff and sister of James Duff, 5th Earl Fife.

José Agustín Arango

José Agustín Arango Remon (1841–1909) was a Panamanian politician who was, together with Tomás Arias and Federico Boyd, a member of the provisional junta that governed Panama after its independence in 1903.

Joseph Ennemoser

In 1819 he became professor of medicine in Bonn, leaving in 1837 for Innsbruck and then in 1841 settling in Munich, where he earned a great reputation as a "magnetic physician."

July victims

When it was announced that the Hungarian-allied candidate won, members of the People's Party took to St. Mark's Square to protest the result.

Karol Antoniewicz

This, as well as the advice of his spiritual director, Father Frederic Rinn, S.J., induced him to seek admission into the novitiate of the Jesuits at Stara Wieś in September, 1839, where he took the solemn vows on 12 September 1841.

Kate Josephine Bateman

She married George Crowe (1841-1889), son of Eyre Evans Crowe, the former editor of the London Daily News, in 1866, then left the stage, but later revived Leah in 1868 at the Haymarket Theatre in London.

Légal Trap

Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841–1924), a British master and one of the world's top five players in the latter part of the 19th century, set the trap on many occasions.

Linney

Romulus Zachariah Linney (1841–1910), Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina 1895–1901

North Ludlow Beamish

After quitting Hanover Beamish devoted much attention to Norse antiquities, and in 1841 published a summary of the researches of Professor Carl Christian Rafn, relative to the discovery of America by the Northmen in the tenth century.

Old South Arabian

Although the inscriptions from ancient South Arabia were already known by the 18th century, it was Wilhelm Gesenius (1786-1842) and his student Emil Rödiger who finally undertook the deciphering of the script, actually independently of each other, in the years 1841/42.

Pantego, Texas

In 1841, during the time of the Republic of Texas, troops under the command of General Edward H. Tarrant skirmished with local Indians in the area.

Roger Lawson Gamble

He was elected to the U.S. House again as a Whig to represent Georgia in the 27th U.S. Congress and served one term from March 4, 1841, until March 3, 1843 as his lost his reelection bid for a second term in that seat in 1842.

Salvador de Mendonça

Salvador de Menezes Drummond Furtado de Mendonça (Itaboraí, July 21, 1841 – Rio de Janeiro, December 5, 1913), known as Salvador de Mendonça, was a Brazilian lawyer, journalist, diplomat and writer.

Seyyed Ahmad Musavi Hindi

Till 1841 he had married three wives Shirin Khanum, Bibi Khanum and Sakineh (his friend Yusuf Khan Kamareh'i's sister), all from Khomeyn.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

He entered the foreign office in 1841, was British envoy at Dresden and Berne, and from 1883 to 1888 represented his country in Rome.

Sir William Napier, 3rd Baronet

He succeeded to the Baronetage of Merrion Square in 1884 on the death of Sir Joseph Napier, 2nd Baronet (1841–1884), and was succeeded by Sir Joseph William Lennox Napier, 4th Baronet (1895–1986).

Thomas Mayne Reid

In 1841 he found work as a clerk for a provision dealer in either Natchez, Mississippi or Natchitoches, Louisiana (the latter place seems more likely).

Thomas W. Ward

In 1841 he lost his right arm when a cannon misfired during the official celebration of San Jacinto Day.

Tommy Bowles

Thomas Gibson Bowles (1841–1922), founder of the magazines The Lady and the English Vanity Fair

William Brawley

William H. Brawley (1841–1916), U.S. Representative from South Carolina and U.S. federal judge

William Halsall

William Formby Halsall (born 1841) was a marine painter born in Kirkdale, England.

William Ives

William Bullock Ives (1841–1899), Canadian politician; President of the Privy Council and Minister of Trade and Commerce

Windsor Forge Mansion

The three objects are pieces by noted artist and poet Blanche Nevin (1841-1925), who purchased Windsor Forge Mansion in 1899.


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