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| 1842 |
| | The First Opium War ends with the island of Hong Kong, and extensive new trading rights, ceded to Britain in the Treaty of Nanking | |
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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 |
| | 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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