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| 1843 |
| | | Mendelssohn's overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, amplified now with incidental music, is greeted as a masterpiece at a performance of the play in Potsdam | |
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| 1843 |
| | | William Hickling Prescott brings the Conquistadors dramatically to life in his 3-volume History of the Conquest of Mexico | |
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| 1843 |
| | | Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz completes his pioneering Poissons Fossiles ('Fossil Fish'), classifying more than 1500 categories | |
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| 1843 |
| | | Topping's Wharf burns | |
|  | Topping's Wharf, Bermondsey, by Sexton, 1843
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| 1843 |
| | | Daniel O'Connell is convicted of seditious conspiracy and is sentenced to prison | |
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| 1843 |
| | | Ebenezer Scrooge mends his ways just in time in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol | |
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| 1844 |
| | | A new Royal Exchange opens | |
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| 1844 |
| | | The first great entrepreneur of the railway age, George Hudson, becomes known as the Railway King | |
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| 1844 |
| | | The Hungarian diet decrees that Magyar, rather than German, is to be the official language of the kingdom | |
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| 1844 |
| | | Pugin publishes a spectacular volume of scholarly text and lavish illustrations, his Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament and Costume | |
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