1841
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"On July 5 1841, Thomas Cook arranged for the rail company to charge one shilling per person that included rail tickets and food for a train journey of a group of 540 temperance campaigners from Leicester Campbell Street station to a rally in Loughborough, eleven miles away. This was the first privately chartered excursion train to be advertised to the general public."--Sholem Stein |
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1841 (MDCCCXLI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1841st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 841st year of the 2nd millennium, the 41st year of the 19th century, and the 2nd year of the 1840s decade. As of the start of 1841, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Art and culture
- Punch founded
- The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
- William Fox Talbot patented the calotype process
- The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
- P.T. Barnum founded the first dime museum in 1841, called "Barnum's American Museum".
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay
Births
- Gustave Le Bon (1841 – 1931)
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919)
- Catulle Mendès (1841-1909)
Deaths
- Aloysius Bertrand (1807 - 1841).
- Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781 - 1841)
