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Pioneers on the Oregon Trail in 1843[/caption]
The Thames Tunnel, the world’s first bored underwater tunnel, is opened in London (Mar 25), the first major wagon train headed for the American Northwest sets out with 1000 pioneers from Missouri (May 22), Brazil becomes the second country to issue postage stamps (Aug 1), the amusement park Tivoli Gardens opens in Copenhagen, Denmark (Aug 15), Ada Lovelace becomes in essence the world’s first computer programmer (Sep), the Economist is first published in London (Sep 2), the city of Shanghai opens for trade with foreigners (Nov 17), the world’s first Christmas cards are sent (Dec) - and all these fine people were born:
1843-0101 Samuel Lees* printer/Aldermen/Mayor of Sydney - Sydney, Colony of New South Wales (1916/73) 1843-0101 Nikolai Lodyzhensky* composer/ diplomat - Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (1916/72) 1843-0103 1843-0105 1843-0108 Frederick Abberline* police officer/prominent investigator in the Jack the Ripper murders - Blandford Forum, Dorset, England (1929/86) 1843-0108 Letitia Stevenson* (b Green) wife of Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson I - Allegheny, PA USA (1913/70) 1843-0109 Wilhelm Kukkonen* schoolteacher/ journalist/bookstore owner - Rautalampi, GD of Finland (1908/65) 1843-0110 Frank James* Confederate soldier/ outlaw/the older brother of Jesse James - Clay County, MO USA (1915/72) 1843-0112 Margaretha Vaittinen** (b Käki) mother of Wilhelmiina Aspinen (b Vaittinen)/married Antti Ristonpoika Vaittinen - Löytömäki, Viipuri, GD of Finland (1xxx) 1843-0114 Adolphus W. Green* attorney/ businessman/co-founder of Nabisco - Boston, MA USA (1917/74) 1843-0117 Anton Thraen* German astronomer - Holungen, Province of Saxony (1902/59) 1843-0120 1843-0125 1843-0128 Mihkel Veske* Estonian poet/linguist - Veske Farm, Holstre Parish, Livonia (1890/47) 1843-0129 Henry Carrington Bolton* chemist/ bibliographer of science - New York City, NY USA (1903/60) 1843-0129 William McKinley* lawyer/ 25usp - Niles, OH USA (1901/58) 1843-0131 1843-0201 John Isaac Thornycroft* English shipbuilder/founder of the Thornycroft shipbuilding company - Rome, Papal States (1928/85) 1843-0203 William Cornelius Van Horne* railway entrepreneur - near Frankfort, IL USA (1915/72) 1843-0205 1843-0208 Johan Wilhelm Runeberg* physician/ politician/son of Johan Ludvig Runeberg - Porvoo, GD of Finland (1918/74) 1843-0210 Ada Anderson* (b Nymand) long-distance walker/famous for her feats of pedestrianism - London, England (x) 1843-0216 Henry M. Leland* engineer/ inventor/automotive entrepreneur (Cadillac and Lincoln) - Vermont, USA (1932/89) 1843-0220 Theodor Höijer* pioneering architect - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1910/67) 1843-0228 Thomas G. Gentry* ornithologist/ animal rights writer - Holmesburg, PA USA (1905/62) 1843-0301 1843-0302 Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy* daughter of Victor Emmanuel, King of Sardinia - Royal Palace of Turin, Turin (1911/68) 1843-0303 William Chandler Roberts-Austen* metallurgist - Kennington, England (1902/59) 1843-0303 Aleksander Sochaczewski* (b Leib Sonder) Polish painter - Iłów, (1923/80) 1843-0304 1843-0307 Joseph James Cheeseman* politician/P - Edina, Liberia (1896/53) 1843-0309 Abraham Abraham* businessman/ department store magnate/philanthropist - New York City, NY USA (1911/68) 1843-0314 Jaakko Frigård-Rautanen* (b Frigård) smith/ fiddler/composer - Jalasjärvi, GD of Finland (1913/70) 1843-0315 1843-0317 Henry Ware Lawton* U.S. Army officer - Maumee, OH USA (1899/56) 1843-0320 1843-0327 George Frederick Leycester Marshall* Colonel in the Indian Army/ornithologist/entomologist - Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England (1934/90) 1843-0331 1843-0401 Étienne Blanchard* politician - Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Canada East (1918/75) 1843-0402 1843-0403 Knut Ekwall* painter/ illustrator - Säby Parish, Sweden (1912/69) 1843-0404 William Henry Jackson* painter/ Civil War veteran/photographer of the American West - Keeseville, NY USA (1942/99) 1843-0410 1843-0415 Henry James* author - New York, NY USA (1916/72) 1843-0420 1843-0423 Herman Wesstra* architect - Oldetrijne, Netherlands (1911/67) 1843-0424 Kaappo Sutki* thief/master of prison escapes/tailor in Siberia - Kauhava, GD of Finland (1889/46) 1843-0430 Edward Colborne Baber* orientalist/ traveller - Dulwich, London, England (1890/47) 1843-0501 1843-0502 Carl Michael Ziehrer* Austrian composer/ conductor - Vienna (1922/79) 1843-0505 1843-0508 Rudolf Mosse* publisher/ philanthropist - Grätz, Grand Duchy of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia (1920/77) 1843-0509 Anton von Werner* German painter - Frankfurt an der Oder, Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia (1915/71) 1843-0516 Susanna Iisakintytär Linnusmaa** (b Tukeva) mother of Sanna Amalia Hakoniemi - Jalasjärvi, GD of Finland (unknown) 1843-0521 Magnus Brenner* teacher/ dean/botanist - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1930/86) 1843-0521 Charles Albert Gobat* lawyer/educational administrator/ politician/N - Tramelan, Switzerland (1914/70) 1843-0521 Louis Renault* jurist/educator/N - Autun, Kingdom of France (1918/74) 1843-0525 1843-0531 Fredrikke Marie Qvam* Norwegian humanitarian leader/liberal politician/wife of Prime Minister Ole Anton Qvam - Trondheim, Sweden-Norway (1938/95) 1843-0601 Charles R. Ellet* colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War - Washington D.C. USA (1863/20) 1843-0603 Frederick VIII of Denmark* King of Denmark/son of King Christian IX - Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark (1912/68) 1843-0609 Bertha von Suttner* novelist/pacifist/N - Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austrian Empire (1914/71) 1843-0610 1843-0615 Edvard Grieg* composer/pianist - Bergen, Norway (1907/64) YouTube 1843-0616 David Popper* Bohemian cellist/composer - Prague (1913/70) 1843-0620 Fyodor Stravinsky* opera singer/actor/father of Igor Stravinsky - Novy Dvor, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire (1902/59) 1843-0624 Andreas Ascharin* Baltic German-Russian journalist/ chess grandmaster - Pärnu, Russian Empire (1896/53) 1843-0628 Julius Runge* German landscape painter - Röbel (1922/78) 1843-0630 1843-0701 1843-0702 Martin Paul* (b Moses Philip Nathan) accordion player/active in Finland - Rendsburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Kingdom of Denmark (1893/49) 1843-0702 Jon Olof Åberg* author - Ås, Öland, Sweden (1898/54) 1843-0705 1843-0707 Camillo Golgi* biologist/pathologist/N - Corteno, the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia (1926/82) 1843-0710 1843-0717 Penn Symons* army officer - Hatt, Cornwall, England (1899/56) 1843-0718 Virgil Earp* deputy U.S. Marshal/Tombstone City Marshal/brother of Wyatt Earp - Hartford, KY USA (1905/62) 1843-0724 Sarah Pike Conger* (b Pike) writer/wife of diplomat Edwin H. Conger - Ohio, USA (1932/88) 1843-0726 J. B. C. Drew* lawyer/ politician - Newmarket, NH USA (1924/81) 1843-0729 Johannes Schmidt* German linguist/language teacher - Prenzlau, Province of Brandenburg (1901/57) 1843-0731 1843-0801 Robert Todd Lincoln* lawyer/politician - Springfield, IL USA (1926/82) 1843-0802 1843-0805 James Scott Skinner* dancing master/fiddler/composer - Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (1927/83) 1843-0809 Adolf Mayer* German agricultural chemist/ - Oldenburg (1942/99) 1843-0820 Kristina Nilsson* opera singer - near Växjö, Sweden (1921/78) 1843-0821 Jehkin Iivana* (b Iivana Shemeikka) Karelian folklorist/kantele player - Suistamo, GD of Finland (1911/67) 1843-0825 1843-0831 Georg von Hertling* politician/ Chancellor of the German Reich - Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Confederation (1919/75) 1843-0901 William Ziegler* industrialist (the Royal Baking Powder Company)/of German descent - Beaver County, PA USA (1905/61) 1843-0902 1843-0904 Jabez Balfour* businessman/ politician/MP/fraudster - Marylebone, London, England (1916/72) 1843-0905 Friedrich Reusch* German sculptor/art teacher - Siegen, Kingdom of Prussia (1906/63) 1843-0909 Oscar Montelius* archaeologist/ refiner of the concept of typology - Stockholm, Sweden (1921/78) 1843-0920 1843-0923 Emily Warren Roebling* contributed in the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge - Cold Spring, NY USA (1903/59) 1843-0925 Viktor Lounasmaa* (b Löfgren) Finnish politician/editor of fennoman newspaper Uusi Suometar (“New Finlander”) - Viborg, GD of Finland (1909/66) 1843-0928 1843-0930 Hector Clare Cameron* Scottish surgeon - Uitvlugt, Demerara, Guyana (1928/86) 1843-1001 1843-1002 Kaarlo Bergbom* theater director/playwright/founder of the Finnish National Theatre, the first Finnish language theatre company - Viborg, GD of Finland (1906/62) 1843-1004 Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas* beatified Catholic nun/founder of the first Palestinian religious congregation - Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (1927/83) 1843-1012 Émile Louis Ragonot* entomologist - Paris, Kingdom of France (1895/52) 1843-1020 1843-1024 Caroline Brown Buell* activist/ writer - Marlborough, MA USA (1927/83) 1843-1025 Pierre Lallement* inventor of the pedal bicycle - Nancy, Kingdom of France (1891/47) 1843-1028 1843-1029 Emil Oskar Nobel* Swedish student/victim of nitroglycerine explosion/brother of Alfred Nobel – Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (1864/20) 1843-1031 Henri Regnault* painter - Paris, Kingdom of France (1871/27) 1843-1101 1843-1104 Theodor Gartner* Austrian linguist - Vienna, Austrian Empire (1925/81) 1843-1108 Mikki Iisakinpoika Kivistö** (b Latva) farmer/father of Jaakko Mikonpoika Kivistö - Ilmajoki, GD of Finland (1916/72) 1843-1108 Moritz Pasch* mathematician - Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia (1930/86) 1843-1109 Fredrik August Odenwall* architect - Turku, GD of Finland (1890/46) 1843-1116 Louise Jopling* painter - Manchester, England (1933/90) 1843-1123 Anna Niska* founder of a canning factory - Oulu, GD of Finland (1930/86) 1843-1127 Cornelius Vanderbilt II* railway magnate - Staten Island, NY USA (1899/55) 1843-1130 Martha Ripley* physician/suffragist - Lowell, VT USA (1912/68) 1843-1201 Fredrik Sundwall* schoolteacher/ editor/civil servant - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1929/85) 1843-1205 1843-1211 Robert Koch* physician/microbiologist/N - Clausthal, Kingdom of Hanover (1910/66) 1843-1211 Juho Aaponpoika Luomajoki* a.k.a. Hätämaan tietäjä/farmer/folk medicine man - Haapavesi, GD of Finland (1914/70) 1843-1220 1843-1223 Ada Langworthy Collier* writer - Dubuque, IA USA (1919/75) 1843-1224 Lydia Koidula* (b Jannsen) Estonian poet - Fennern, Livonia, Russian Empire (1886/42) 1843-1228 Prentiss Ingraham* colonel in the Confederate Army/mercenary/fiction writer - near Natchez, MS USA (1904/60) 1843-1229 Elisabeth of Wied* the first queen of Romania as the wife of King Carol I - Monrepos Castle, Neuwied, Duchy of Nassau (1916/72) 1843-1231 1843-0 1843-0 1843-0 Updated 2025-0325 Helsinki Search for another year here Sources: https://www.oregontrailcenter.org/HistoricalTrails/TheWagon.htm http://action-adventure.info/?a=Emigrants+To+Oregon+In+1843++Oregon+Pioneers+of+1843