Events of 1841

• January 25 - Charles Elliot of Britain and Kei Sin of Qing signed the Convention of Chuenpeh.
• January 26 - The United Kingdom occupies Hong Kong. Later during the year, the first census of the island recorded a population of about 75,000.
• January 30 - A fire ruins and destroys two-thirds of the then villa (now city) of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
• February 18 - The first ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate begins and lasts until March 11.
• March 4 - Martin Van Buren, President of the United States is succeeded by William Henry Harrison.
• March 9 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Amistad case that the Africans who seized control of the ship had been taken into slavery illegally.
• March 29 - Bishopton railway station is opened.
• April 4 - President William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia becoming the first President of the United States to die in office and at one month, the elected president with the shortest term served. He is succeeded by Vice President John Tyler, who becomes the 10th President of the United States.
• April 6 - President John Tyler is sworn in.
• May 11 - Lt. Charles Wilkes lands at Fort Nisqually in Puget Sound.
• August 16 - U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
• September 24 - United Kingdom annexes Sarawak from Brunei; James Brooke is appointed rajah.
• October 16 - Queen's University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, by Rev. Thomas Liddell, who carried a Royal Charter from Queen Victoria and became the school's first principal.
• October 30 - a fire at the Tower of London destroys its Grand Armoury and causes a quarter of a million pounds worth of damage.
• November 13 - James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis.

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