Timeline May 1843

Events in May 1843 5

• 1758 – 1843 Noah Webster (1758-1843) Died 28 May 1843, aged 84 Noah Webster was an American lexicographer whose American Dictionary of the English Language of 1828 standardised American spelling. His Blue-Backed Speller taught generations of American children to read.
• 1843 Natal proclaimed a British colony Britain annexes the former Boer Republic of Natalia Britain proclaimed Natal a British colony, taking over the short-lived Boer Republic of Natalia. Many Voortrekkers then left the territory and moved inland across the Drakensberg.
• 1843 Disruption of the Church of Scotland Over 450 ministers leave to form the Free Church At the General Assembly in Edinburgh, more than 450 ministers walked out in protest at the state's power to appoint parish ministers. Led by Thomas Chalmers, they founded the Free Church of Scotland.
• 1843 Great Emigration sets out on the Oregon Trail About a thousand settlers leave Missouri for Oregon A wagon train of roughly a thousand emigrants left Elm Grove, Missouri, for the Oregon Country. It was the first large-scale overland migration on the Oregon Trail and opened the route to mass settlement of the Pacific Northwest.
• 1843 Alexander Bain patents the facsimile Scottish clockmaker patents electrical image transmission Alexander Bain received a British patent for a device that used synchronised pendulums to scan and reproduce images over telegraph wires. It was the first patented design for what became the fax machine.