Editing 1840s (section)

== Establishments ==

=== Publications ===
* September 1843 –''[[The Economist]]'' newspaper is first published in London.
* [[1843]] – ''[[The Friend (Quaker)|The Friend]]'', a [[Quaker]] weekly, is first published in London.
* [[August 28]], [[1845]] – The journal ''[[Scientific American]]'' begins publication.

=== Institutions ===

==== Asia ====
* [[July 18]], [[1841]] – The sixth bishop of [[Calcutta]], [[Daniel Wilson (bishop)|Daniel Wilson]], and Dr. James Taylor, Civil Surgeon at [[Dhaka]], establish the first modern educational institution in the [[Indian subcontinent]], [[Dhaka College]].

==== Australia ====
* [[October 1]], [[1846]] – [[Christ College, Tasmania]], opens with the hope that it would develop along the lines of an [[Oxbridge]] college and provide the basis for university education in Tasmania. By the 21st century it will be the oldest tertiary institution in Australia.

==== Europe ====
[[File:Kopenhaga tivoli jan2004 ubt.jpeg|thumb|220x220px|[[Tivoli Gardens]]]]
* [[April 15]], [[1840]] – [[King's College Hospital]] opens in [[London]].
* [[August 15]], [[1843]] – [[Tivoli Gardens]], one of the oldest still intact [[amusement park]]s in the world, opens in [[Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]].
* [[June 6]], [[1844]] – [[George Williams (YMCA)|George Williams]] founds the [[YMCA|Young Men's Christian Association]] ([[YMCA]]) in London.
* [[December 21]], [[1844]] – The [[Rochdale Pioneers]] commence business at their [[cooperative]] in [[Rochdale|Rochdale, England]].
* [[April 5]], [[1847]] – The world's first municipally-funded civic public [[park]], [[Birkenhead Park]] in [[Birkenhead]] on [[Merseyside]] in England, is opened.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wirral.gov.uk/LGCL/100006/200073/670/content_0001110.html |title=The History of Birkenhead Park |access-date=2007-09-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080626164507/http://www.wirral.gov.uk/LGCL/100006/200073/670/content_0001110.html |archive-date=2008-06-26 }}</ref>
* [[October 12]], [[1847]] – [[Germans|German]] inventor and industrialist [[Werner von Siemens]] founds [[Siemens AG]] & Halske.
* [[February 2]], [[1848]] – [[John Henry Newman]] founds the first [[Oratory of Saint Philip Neri|Oratory]] in the English-speaking world when he establishes the [[Birmingham Oratory]] at 'Maryvale', [[Old Oscott]], England.

==== Africa ====
* [[1845]] – [[Eugénie Luce]] founds the Luce Ben Aben School in [[Algiers]].<ref name="WDL">{{cite web|url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/8800/|title=Luce Ben Aben School of Arab Embroidery I, Algiers, Algeria|year=1899|website=[[World Digital Library]]|access-date=2013-09-26}}</ref>

==== North America ====
* [[1843]] – [[Saint Louis University School of Law]] becomes the first law school west of the [[Mississippi River]].
* [[January 15]], [[1844]] – The [[University of Notre Dame]] receives its charter from [[Indiana]].
* [[February 1]], [[1845]] – [[Anson Jones]], President of the [[Republic of Texas]], signs the charter officially creating [[Baylor University]]. Baylor is the oldest university in the State of [[Texas]] operating under its original name.
* [[October 10]], [[1845]] – In [[Annapolis, Maryland]], the Naval School (later renamed the [[United States Naval Academy]]) opens with fifty midshipmen and seven professors.
* [[November 1]], [[1848]] – In [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], the first [[medical school]] for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merges with [[Boston University School of Medicine]]), opens.
* November 1849 – [[Austin College]] receives a charter in [[Huntsville, Texas]].

=== Other ===
* [[February 4]], [[1841]] – First known reference to [[Groundhog Day]], in the diary of a James Morris.