Editing 1841 (section)

=== October–December ===
* [[October 10]] – [[First Opium War]]: [[Battle of Chinhai]] – British capture a Chinese garrison.
* [[October 13]] – First Opium War: British occupy [[Ningbo]].
* [[October 16]] – [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]] is founded in [[Kingston, Ontario]], by [[Reverend|Rev.]] [[Thomas Liddell]], who carries a [[Royal Charter]] from [[Queen Victoria]], and becomes the school's first [[Principal (academia)|principal]].
* [[October 30]] – A fire at the [[Tower of London]] destroys its Grand Armoury and causes a quarter of a million pounds' worth of damage.<ref>{{cite book|title=The London Encyclopaedia|first=Ben|last=Weinreb|author2=Hibbert, Christopher|publisher=Macmillan|year=1995|isbn=0-333-57688-8|page=287}}</ref>
* [[November]] – The settlement of [[Dallas]], [[Republic of Texas|Texas]], is founded by [[John Neely Bryan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dallashistory.org/history/dallas/dallas_history.htm |title=Dallas History |access-date=2006-04-20 |author=Dallas Historical Society |author-link=Dallas Historical Society |date=2002-12-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060422183559/http://www.dallashistory.org/history/dallas/dallas_history.htm |archive-date=April 22, 2006 }}</ref>
* [[November 13]] – Scottish surgeon [[James Braid (surgeon)|James Braid]] first sees a demonstration of ''[[animal magnetism]]'' by [[Charles Lafontaine]] in [[Manchester]], which leads to his study of the phenomenon that he (Braid) eventually calls ''[[hypnotism]]''.
* [[December 20]] – The first [[multilateral treaty]] for the suppression of the [[African slave trade]], the [[Treaty for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade]], signed in London by the representatives of [[Austrian Empire|Austria]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Britain]], [[July Monarchy|France]], [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]] and [[Russian Empire|Russia]].
* [[December 23]] – [[First Anglo-Afghan War]]: At a meeting with the [[Afghanistan|Afghan]] general [[Wazir Akbar Khan|Akbar Khan]], British diplomat Sir [[William Hay Macnaghten]] is shot dead at close quarters.
* [[December 27]] – [[Franz Liszt]] gives a piano recital at the [[Sing-Akademie zu Berlin]] to an enthusiastic audience, retrospectively marked as the beginning of [[Lisztomania]], which will accompany his tours across Europe during the decade.<ref>{{cite book|last=Walker|first=Alan|author-link=Alan Walker (musicologist)|title=Franz Liszt, The Virtuoso Years (1811–1847)|edition=revised|publisher=Cornell University Press|year=1987|pages=289, 371}}</ref>