Editing 1841 (section)

=== July–September ===
[[File:18th Royal Irish at Amoy.jpg|thumb|[[August 26]]: [[Battle of Amoy]] in the [[First Opium War]].]]
* [[July 5]] – [[Thomas Cook]] arranges his first railway excursion in England.<ref name="Pocket On This Day"/>
* [[July 17]] – The first edition of the humorous magazine ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'' is published in London.<ref>{{cite book|title=The History of "Punch"|url=https://archive.org/details/historypunch04spiegoog|first=Marion Harry|last=Spielmann|year=1895|page=[https://archive.org/details/historypunch04spiegoog/page/n48 27]}}</ref>
* [[July 18]] (Sunday)
** Emperor [[Pedro II of Brazil]] is [[Coronation|crowned]] in [[Rio de Janeiro]].
** The sixth bishop of [[Calcutta]], [[Daniel Wilson (bishop)|Daniel Wilson]], and Dr. James Taylor, Civil Surgeon at [[Dhaka]], establish the first modern educational institution on the Indian subcontinent, [[Dhaka College]].
* [[July 20]] – The Mercantile Agency (ancestor of [[Dun & Bradstreet]]) is founded in New York City by Lewis Tappan.
* [[July 31]] – Scottish [[missionary]] [[David Livingstone]] arrives at [[Kuruman]] in the [[Northern Cape]], his first posting in Africa.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ross | first=Andrew| title=David Livingstone : Mission and Empire |publisher=Hambledon Continuum |publication-place=London |year=2002 |pages=39–43 |isbn= 978-1-85285-285-6}}</ref>
* [[August 11]] – [[Frederick Douglass]] speaks in front of the [[Anti-Slavery Convention]] in [[Nantucket, Massachusetts]].
* [[August 16]] – U.S. President [[John Tyler]] vetoes a [[Bill (proposed law)|bill]] which called for the re-establishment of the [[Second Bank of the United States]]. Enraged [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig Party]] members riot outside the [[White House]], in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
* [[August 20]]–[[October 16]] – The [[Niger expedition of 1841]] begins sailing up the [[Niger River]] by [[paddle steamer]]s, under the auspices of the British Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade and the Civilisation of Africa; it is largely abortive, due to the high incidence of disease among the crews.
* [[September 24]] – [[Kingdom of Sarawak|Sarawak]] is broken away from [[Sultanate of Brunei|Brunei]], and [[James Brooke]] is appointed [[Raja]]h.