1843

1843 was 28 years before the founding of the City of Birmingham and the 24th year of Alabama statehood.

Events

• A fashionable mineral-spring health resort began operating at Blount Springs.
• The Harpersville post office was founded.

Individuals

• Thomas H. Brasher became Shelby County Sheriff.
• Jabez Curry graduated from Franklin College (now the University of Georgia).
• William Mudd began serving in the Alabama legislature.

Births

• March 23: Joseph Johnston, Governor of Alabama
• August 11: Ellis Phelan, attorney and speculator
• Robert Henley, first Mayor of Birmingham

Context

In 1843, Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi premiered in Milan. Eta Carinae temporarily became the second-brightest star in the night sky. The first major wagon train headed for the American Northwest set out with one thousand pioneers on the Oregon Trail. Ulysses S. Grant graduated from West Point. The Economist began publication. Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart and Charles Dickens' novella A Christmas Carol were first published.

Notable births in 1843 included Frank James, William McKinley, Henry James, King Frederick VIII of Denmark, Robert Todd Lincoln, and Cornelius Vanderbilt II. Notable deaths included Robert Southey, Samuel Morey, Noah Webster, and Sequoyah.

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