Timeline December 1843

Events in December 1843 5

• 1793 – 1843 Casimir Delavigne (1793-1843) Died 11 December 1843, aged 50 Casimir Delavigne was a French poet and playwright whose patriotic verse and historical dramas were popular in the Restoration and July Monarchy periods. He was elected to the Académie française in 1825.
• 1815 – 1843 William I First King of the Netherlands William I became the first king of the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands after the Napoleonic Wars.
• 1843 First commercial Christmas card Henry Cole commissions a printed Christmas greeting Henry Cole commissioned the artist John Callcott Horsley to design a printed card showing a family at a Christmas celebration. About a thousand copies were printed and sold in London, starting the custom of sending Christmas cards.
• 1843 – 1910 Robert Koch Pioneer of Bacteriology Discovered the bacteria responsible for tuberculosis and cholera; Nobel laureate.
• 1843 Dickens publishes A Christmas Carol Novella about Ebenezer Scrooge appears in London Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol through Chapman & Hall, and the first printing sold out by Christmas Eve. The story of the miser Ebenezer Scrooge and the visiting ghosts shaped how Christmas was celebrated in Britain and beyond.