U.S. Grant graduates West Point. Another former West Pointer, Edgar Allan Poe, publishes. The first major wagon train heads west. A Christmas Carol.

1. Former West Point cadet Edgar
Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart is
published.
What Happened in
1843?

2. The world’s first bored tunnel opens
underneath the River Thames in London.
It Is 1843 A.D.

3. The first major wagon train departs for the
western United States.
It Is 1843 A.D.

4. Charles Dickens Christmas Carol is published.
It Is 1843 A.D.

5. Henry James is born.
It Is 1843 A.D.

6. Tivoli opens in Copenhagen.
It Is 1843 A.D.

7. The world doesn’t
end on 21 March as
predicted by
Preacher William
Miller. His response:
"I confess my error,
and acknowledge
my disappointment;
yet I still believe that
the day of the Lord
is near, even at the
door."
It Is 1843 A.D.

8. Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling is
published.
It Is 1843 A.D.

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6 June 1843.
4 weeks before the graduation of the class of
1843.
When Cadet George Pickett challenges Cadet
U.S. Grant to a duel.

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