Timeline October 1843

Events in October 1843 4

• 1843 News of the World first published Cheap Sunday newspaper launched in London John Browne Bell launched the News of the World as a cheap Sunday paper that relied on crime and scandal. It grew into one of the best-selling English-language newspapers and was closed in 2011.
• 1843 Clontarf Repeal meeting banned Government stops O'Connell's largest monster meeting The British government banned the mass meeting for repeal of the Act of Union that Daniel O'Connell had called at Clontarf. O'Connell called it off to avoid bloodshed but was arrested soon afterwards on a charge of conspiracy.
• 1843 Treaty of the Bogue Supplementary treaty grants Britain most-favoured-nation status Britain and Qing China signed the Treaty of the Bogue as a supplement to the Treaty of Nanking. It gave Britain most-favoured-nation treatment and extraterritorial rights in the treaty ports.
• 1843 Hamilton discovers quaternions Formula carved into Dublin's Brougham Bridge While walking along the Royal Canal in Dublin, William Rowan Hamilton worked out the basic formula for quaternions and carved it into the stone of Brougham Bridge. Quaternions extended complex numbers into four dimensions and are now used in physics and computer graphics.