; London
(Metropolitan District, census 1841), 1,873,676; London (old city),
125,009; United States, 17,017,723; Great Britain and Ireland (census
1841), 27,019,558.=

=RULERS--The same as in the previous year, except that William Henry
Harrison became President of the United States, and was succeeded in April
by John Tyler.=

1842

Maine boundary question settled by a treaty negotiated by Daniel Webster
for the United States and Lord Ashburton for Great Britain. Congress
resisted a threatened invasion by the French of the Hawaiian Islands.
Dorr's "rebellion" in Rhode Island, by which T.W. Dorr, "free suffragist,"
tried to get governorship, to which S.W. King had been elected under the
old charter.

War between Great Britain and China ended, Great Britain winning at all
points, and reopening the opium trade. In the retreat from Kabul,
Afghanistan, a British detachment and its followers were slaughtered in
Khyber Pass, Dr. Brydon alone of fifteen thousand who started reaching
Jelalabad, though a few who were captured were later freed. British envoys
to Bokhara beheaded. Jelalabad, besieged by the Afghans, was relieved by
the British, Kabul was recaptured, and Akbar Khan, leader of the
insurgents, fled.

In Great Britain, Parliament rejected a Chartist petition for universal
suffrage, etc., containing over three million signatures. A general strike
was conducted by the Chartists; Feargus O'Connor, the leader, convicted of
inciting to riot, but escaped sentence. Two attempts to assassinate Queen
Victoria. Law passed by Parliament restricting the employment of women and
children in coal mines. The bore of the Thames Tunnel was finished. In
Algeria, the war went on, with several serious reverses for the French.
The _Illustrated London News_, first publication of its kind, started.
Luigi Cherubini, Italian musician; Marie Henri Beyle (better known as
"Stendhal"), French novelist; Thomas Arnold, the famous head master of
Rugby; and Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet, died.

=RULERS--The same as in the previous year.=

1843

Extradition treaty negotiated between the United States and Great Britain.
Bunker Hill monument was dedicated. Annexation of Texas by United States
was mooted, and Mexico, foreseeing war, proclaimed new constitution, and
Santa Anna made himself virtually dictator. Charles Thurber, Worcester,
Massachusetts, built the first practical typewriter; too slow to be
generally adopted.

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