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| 1843 |
| | | The Brunel engineers, father and son, finish an 18-year project tunnelling under the Thames between Wapping and Rotherhithe | |
|  | View of the Thames tunnel
London's Transport Museum
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| 1843 |
| | | The Flying Dutchman is the first of Richard Wagner's major operas to be staged, with its premiere in Dresden | |
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| 1843 |
| | | The British take control of the existing Boer republic and proclaim Natal a British protectorate | |
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| 1843 |
| | | Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Pit and the Pendulum, a cliff-hanging tale of terror at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition | |
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| 1843 |
| | | Henry Cole commissions 1000 copies of the world's first Christmas card, designed for him by John Calcott Horsley | |
|  | Cole's Christmas card
Victoria and Albert Museum
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| 1843 |
| | | The Great Migration across the north American continent to the Pacific establishes the Oregon Trail | |
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| 1843 |
| | | The statue of Nelson, by E.H. Baily, is placed on top of its column in Trafalgar Square | |
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| 1843 |
| | | Isambard Kingdom Brunel launches the Great Britain, the first iron steamship designed for the transatlantic passenger trade | |
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| 1843 |
| | | The frontispiece to Pugin's Revival of Christian Architecture displays three cathedrals and twenty-two other religious buildings designed by him | |
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| 1843 |
| | | Pugin begins building a house for his family, now known as The Grange, at Ramsgate | |
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