1841 - What happened in 1841 ?

January 1841

Tuesday 26:

The United Kingdom formally occupies Hong Kong, which China had ceded.

February 1841

Thursday 18:

The first ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate begins and lasts until March 11.

March 1841

Tuesday 09:

The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Amistad case, concerning captive Africans who seized control of the slave-trading ship carrying them: the court rules that they had been taken into slavery illegally.

April 1841

Sunday 04:

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.

Tuesday 06:

John Tyler is inaugurated as the 10th President of the United States.

May 1841

Thursday 20:

Chi Psi Fraternity is founded at Union College in Schenectady, New York.

August 1841

Monday 16:

U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-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 U.S. history.

Saturday 21:

The venetian blind is first patented in the United States by John Hampson.

September 1841

Friday 24:

The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to Britain.

October 1841

Saturday 16:

Queen's University is founded.

November 1841

Saturday 13:

James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis.