Worldwide Timeline of 1841

What was happening…?

Richard Wagner

• 28-year-old Richard Wagner wrote The Flying Dutchman (first version) 

• The US Supreme Court rules in the “Amistad” case that the Africans who seized control of the ship had been taken into slavery illegally
• Frederick Douglass spoke in front of the Anti-Slavery Covention in Nantucket, MA

Who was born…?

• Emmanuel Chabrier

~ French Composer and Pianist

• Antonin Dvorak

~ Czech Composer

• Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

~ Asso. Justice of US Supreme Court

• Albert Edward, Prince of Wales

~ Future King Edward VII

• Otto Wagner

~ Austrian Architect

• Adolfo Rivadeneyra

            ~ Spanish traveler, Diplomat, and Writer

How old was…?

• Brahms = 8 years-old

• Liszt = 30 years-old

• Schumann = 31 years-old

• Chopin = 31 years-old

• Mendelsohn =  42 years-old

Who died…?

• William Henry Harrison, the 9^th US President

~ Died a month after his inauguration (first US President to die in office)

• Karl Friedrich Schinkel

~ Prussian architect

• Franz Xaver von Baader

~ German philosopher and theologian

 

 What was written…?

• “Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allen Poe

• “The Deerslayer” by James Fenimore Cooper

• “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “The Old Curiosity Shop” by Charles Dickens

 

What was new…?

• The city of Dallas, Texas is founded by John Neely Bryan

• Oberlin College in Ohio grants the first BA degrees to women

• Adolphe Sax, a Belgian musician, invents the saxophone

• The New York Herald Tribune starts publishing

• Punch magazine in England starts publishing

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Parts of the modern Saxophone