1841

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March 4 - William Henry Harrison is sworn in as the ninth President of the United States.
April 4 - William Henry Harrison dies from typhoid fever and pneumonia, after only one month in office and one week after becoming sick.
May 1 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: approximately 13 Noongar people are massacred by a party of colonists in reprisal for killing civilians, at Wonnerup. The colonists were given orders to kill only the men and spare the women and children.
May 1 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: at Hornet's Nest in South Australia, an aboriginal camp is massacred by a police party in reprisal for attacks on livestock
August 27 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: under orders from governor George Grey, due to attacks on eleven settlers, a reprisal party of 70 men massacred approximately 30 natives, at the Rufus River.