Timeline July 1841

Events in July 1841 4

• 1814 – 1841 Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) Died 27 July 1841, aged 26 Mikhail Lermontov, the leading poet of Russian Romanticism and author of the novel 'A Hero of Our Time', was killed in a duel near Pyatigorsk on 27 July 1841. His death, echoing that of Alexander Pushkin four years earlier, cut short a career that had made him Russia's foremost poet after Pushkin. His verse and prose remained central to the Russian literary canon.
• 1841 Thomas Cook organizes first package excursion Railway trip from Leicester to Loughborough launches modern tourism On 5 July 1841, Thomas Cook chartered a train to carry temperance campaigners from Leicester to a rally in Loughborough, charging a shilling per passenger. The outing is widely regarded as the first package excursion, and Cook went on to found a travel agency that became one of the world's best-known tour operators. The trip demonstrated the commercial potential of organized rail travel for leisure.
• 1841 Straits Convention signed in London Great powers agree to close the Bosphorus and Dardanelles to foreign warships On 13 July 1841, Britain, France, Austria, Prussia, Russia and the Ottoman Empire signed the Straits Convention in London, reaffirming the closure of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits to all foreign warships during peacetime. The treaty settled the Eastern Question crisis that had followed the Russo-Ottoman alliance and the Egyptian-Ottoman conflict of the late 1830s. It replaced the earlier Treaty of Hunkar Iskelesi, reducing Russia's unilateral influence over the straits.
• 1841 Punch magazine founded in London British satirical weekly begins publication Punch, or the London Charivari launched on 17 July 1841, founded by Henry Mayhew and Mark Lemon. The weekly magazine became Britain's leading satirical publication, known for its cartoons and political humor, and ran for over 150 years. Its name later gave rise to the term "cartoon" in its modern sense.