Balada

This page relates to the year 1841 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

Africa

  • the British missionary David Livingstone makes its first voyage of exploration in Africa.
  • Coast-in-the Or: Countryside of the Asante against the Gonja (fine in 1844).
  • Adama, disciple of Usman daN Fodio, extends its power and its field to the south-east of the Empire of Sokoto. It settles with Yola and until its death (1847) it fights the tribes animists of the north of the Cameroun and its adversary, the sultan of Mandara. It carries out the unit of the Fombina (south), which takes in its honor the name of Adamaoua. Its successors with Yola will let the emirs give up conversions, plunder the area, capture the slaves and fight themselves between them until the arrival of Europeans.
  • the British government makes install with Lokoja, with the confluence of the Niger and the Bénoué, model farm to cultivate the Coton which will be a failure.
  • France grants to the brothers Régis the concession of Strong Saint-Louis with Ouidah (Dahomey).
  • Mohamed-Ali organizes forwardings which go up the White Nile. They make it possible to increase an important trade of black slaves captured with the Sudan and to the borders of the Congo and the Uganda.

The Maghreb

  • February 22nd: Bugeaud is named general governor of the French Algérie (end in 1847). It decides the resumption of the hostilities for a total conquest of Algeria. The manpower of the troops passes from 63  000 (1840) with close to 110  000 men. Via the “Arab office”, Bugeaud recruits autochtones and poses the first bases of the Armée with Africa. He encourages the establishment of colonies. Abd el-Kader its side is laid out of 8000 infantrymen, 2000 riders, 240 artillerists, for which it is necessary to add the irregular ones (approximately 50  000 riders and goumiers).
  • In spring, the French Army gains a series of victories. It occupies Tagdempt and Mascara (the news and the old capital of the emir), then Boghar, Taza and Saïda, razziant the tribes favorable to the emir and destroying harvests and the silos with grains. Abd el-Kader calls upon the Othoman sultan in vain.

Americas

  • February 10th: The Acte of union founds the United Provinces of Canada.
  • March 4th: Presidency Whig of William H. Harrison with the the United States.
  • March 9th: The business of Amistad finds its term with the Supreme court of the United States, whose stop US v. Amistad is favorable to the Africans, who are released. The business still envenimé the relations between the States of North and the South.
  • April 4th: Died of William Henry Harrison of pneumonia one month after the beginning of its mandate. The vice-president John Tyler succeeds to him.
  • April 6th: Beginning of the presidency Whig of John Tyler with the the United States (fine in 1845). It must face the resignation of the cabinet, hostile with its banking policy.
  • April: Foundation of the Brook Farm with Boston by utopians (George Ripley) who carry out a Community life shared between manual work and the intellectual reflection.
  • June 13rd: The first session of the first Parlement of Canada opens with Kingston.
  • July 18th: Majority of Pedro II with the Brazil. It restores the Council of State and equips its country with a code of procedure. It attempts to impose an economic expansion policy, favorable to the land and generating aristocracy of disorders.
  • September 18th: The general Manual Bulnes, hero of the war, is elected president with the Chile. He opens ten years of political stability, of economic growth and cultural radiation (fine in 1851).
  • November 7th: Embarked slaves on board the Creole seize the ship and put the course on the the Antilles Britanniques where slavery at summer abolished in 1833. The the United Kingdom refuses to return the slaves, who causes a diplomatic tension with the the United States.
  • November: The colonists cross the Rocky Mountains.

  • Persecuted by dictators like Rosas in Argentinian, of the intellectuals of all the Latin America finds refuge with the Chile, attracted in particular by the fame of the vice-chancellor of the national university, Andrés Bello.
  • British Protectorate on the Coast of Mosquitos.
  • statistics (published in 1844) counts the number of slaves present in the rural cultures of the French colonies, i.e. 75% of the slaves: There is 68  314 slaves in Martinique, 83  195 with the Guadeloupe, 12  608 in Guyana and 52  316 in the island Bourbon (Meeting).

Asia

  • January 20th, China: First occupation of Hong-Kong by the the United Kingdom.
    • January: Whereas the negotiations continue, the British seize the fortresses outside Humen.
    • In May, they occupy HongKong where violent incidents oppose them to Chinese crowd.
    • From August at October, the British fleet seizes many cities along the Yangzi Jiang. The British obtain for the first time the diplomatic equality and the concession of HongKong. The agreement is denounced and the engagements begin again.
  • February 14th: Beginning of the reign of Thiệu Trị, emperor of the Vietnam of the Dynasty Nguyễn. Like its predecessor Minh Mang, it accentuates centralization, which will cause disorders when the economic difficulties accumulate.

  • September 24th: The sultan of Brunei reward James Brooke, an English adventurer who had helped it to crush rebels, by giving him grounds and the title of rajah of Sarawak. Brooke and its successors, the “white rajahs”, widen their territory to the current borders of Sarawak.

  • November 2nd, Afghanistan: Akbar Khan, a son of Dost Mohammad, carries out a victorious revolt against Shah Shuja, and the garrisons anglo-Indians stationed in the country. The British are driven out of Kabul in January 1842.

  • a Kampuchean party turns to the Siam to release itself from the supervision Vietnamese. After an undecided war, the devastated country becomes the vassal one of its two neighbors (1844).

  • Japan: The minister Mizuno Tadakuni (1794 - 1851) lance of the reforms (known as of the Era Tenpō) in the intention to reinforce the order and the country condition: limitation of the extravagant expenditure, censures increased on licentious works, dissolution of the corporations of merchants held for persons in charge of inflation.

The Antarctic, Oceania & the Pacific

The Middle East & Arab World

  • July 13rd: Convention of London bearing on the Straits and Egypt. The Egypt loses the Syria for the benefit of the Othoman Turkey after the intervention of the European powers (Treated of London, July 15th 1840).
  • the Egypt obtains an autonomous statute of province under the formal authority of the Othoman Sultan. The government of the country is recognized hereditary in the family of Méhémet Ali with the title of viceroy. The entourage of the viceroys remains before very Turkish-speaking.

  • September: With the Lebanon, conflict between Druzes and Maronites due to the Franco-British competitions and the Othoman policy: the Druzes, supported by the English, are exempted tribute that the Maronites, supported by France, must pay the sultan.

  • the creation of the station of great Rabbinate of Jerusalem is one of the direct consequences of the Affaire of Damas,

Europe

  • July 13rd: Treaty of London: An international convention on the Straits, signed with London between the five powers (England, Austria, France, Prussia, Russia), balance definitively the question of the East: it closes the the Bosphorus with all the men-of-war and confirms the hereditary sovereignty of Méhémet-Ali on Egypt.

    • popular Rising in Crete directed against the return of the Othoman domination pursuant to the agreements concluded by the Quadruple Alliance and the France at the time of the conference of London of July 13rd.
  • August 30th: Fall of the liberal ministry Melbourne. Beginning of the ministry whig of Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (fine in 1846). The conservative Robert Peel, chief of a party favorable to protectionism, begins nevertheless a policy of reduction of the import taxes. He must face the movement chartist which is restructured by melting the National Charter Association .
  • December 20th: Franco-British convention concerning the right of access of the ships.

  • the Council of State east dissolves in Poland. The tsar returns on the organic statute of 1832. Legal institutions, like the Court of Appeal, its removed, as well as the Polish currency.
  • Russia: Deportation in Transcaucasia of the members of the sect of the Doukhobors. Country rising in Gourie.

France

See also: 1841 in France

Chronologies sets of themes

Art & culture

See also: 1841 in music, 1841 in literature, 1841 with the theater

  • Pesti Hírlap , liberal newspaper of Kossuth (Hungary).
  • the Muscovite , body Slavophile of Pogodine.
  • Pauline Ono , portrait of Millet.
  • Russia: Official adoption of the style Russo-Byzantine of Tuna in the construction of the churches and the public buildings.

Sports

Science and technology

See also: 1841 in science

Economy & Company

Births in 1841

Death in 1841

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