1843

Events from the year 1843 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: John Tyler (W-VA)
* Vice President: vacant
* Chief Justice: Roger B. Taney (MD)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: John White (W-KY) (until March 4), John Winston Jones (D-VA) (starting December 4)
* Congress: 27th (until March 4), 28th (starting March 4)
==Events==
===January - March===
* January 1 – Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" is first published.
* 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 - June===
* April 30 – Naval Battle of Campeche begins: Naval Battle between the Mexican Navy versus the Texas Navy and the Yucatán Navy. The battle features the most advanced warships of its day.
* May 7 – Nakahama Manjirō lands in New Bedford, Massachusetts, the first known Japanese in the United States.
* May 16 – Naval Battle of Campeche ends.
* May 22 – The first major wagon train for the American Northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri on the Oregon Trail.
* June 1 – Fruitlands (transcendental center) in Harvard, Massachusetts, led by Bronson Alcott and Charles Lane, functions.
===July - September===
* July 1 – Ulysses S. Grant graduates from West Point 21st from a class of 39.
* July 12 – Origin of Latter Day Saint polygamy: Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, receives a revelation recommending polygamy.
* August 19 – Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Black Cat" is first published, in The Saturday Evening Post.
* August 23 – Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna announces that the annexation of Texas by the United States would be considered an act of war by Mexico.
===October - December===
* October 1 – College of the Holy Cross opens as a boys' school in Worcester, Massachusetts, the first Jesuit college in New England.
* 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.
==Memoriam==
* January 11 – Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star-Spangled Banner" (aged 63; Baltimore, MD, USA)
* March 27 – Samuel McRoberts, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1841 to 1843 (aged 43; Cincinnati, OH, USA)
* March 31 – George A. Waggaman, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1831 to 1835 (aged 61; New Orleans, LA, USA)
* April 1 – John Armstrong Jr., 7th United States Secretary of War (aged 84; Red Hook, NY, USA)
* April 17 – Samuel Morey, inventor (aged 80; Fairlee, VT, USA)
* April 25 – John McCracken Robinson, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1830 to 1841 (aged 49; Ottawa, IL, USA)
* May 28 – Noah Webster, lexicographer (aged 84; New Haven, CT, USA)
* July 7 – John Holmes, Maine politician (aged 70; Portland, ME, USA)
* July 9 – Washington Allston, painter, the "American Titian", and poet (aged 63; Cambridge, MA, USA)
* August 1 – Sequoyah, creator of the Cherokee syllabary (aged 73; Coahuila, Mexico)
* August 10 – Robert Adrain, mathematician (aged 67; New Brunswick, NJ, USA)
* September 11 – Joseph Nicollet, geographer (aged 57; Washington, DC, USA)
* September 30 – Richard Harlan, zoologist (aged 47; New Orleans, LA, USA)
* November 10 – John Trumbull, painter (aged 87; New York City, NY, USA)
* December 18 – Smith Thompson, 6th United States Secretary of the Navy (aged 75; Poughkeepsie, NY, USA)
==External links==
* 1843 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 7