Kim:

K& Turned off a circuit to change out a hallway light.
K& Had to stop because I had to get an extra part.
K& Turned the circuit back on and have no power in the adjacent bedroom that
K& shares the circuit (and the hallway light, I'm sure).
K& Could turning off the circuit in the first place have killed it?

Anything's possible! When you reset the breaker to 'ON' did the
hallway light work? It is possible for one breaker to share rooms --
having a separate breaker just for the hall light would be silly.
(Well, in a normal residential application.)

If the hall light works and the bedroom does not, are you sure the
bedroom is on the same circuit as the hall? Don't want to be looking
at the wrong place!

If the junction box of the hallway light only had one wire coming out
of it you can probably skip this paragraph. By "one wire" I mean a
set of wires in a jacket == black and white and probably a bare
copper one, which connected to the light. If there was another
jacketed wire in it, or if there was a red wire in there, check those
connections (the ones not going to the light). Check the black (could
be red -- both mean 'hot') and white (neutral).

Assuming the hall light had only a single wire in it, feeding just the
light, the problem is elsewhere. The trick is finding it. You need
to figure out where the 'common points' are. If none of the bedroom
works you don't need to look in all the outlets for a problem, though
you may have to look in two or three to discover the original wiring
sequence. There may be a junction box in the basement (or attic -
depends on how many floors, location, etc.) which had a loose
connection open up. Could be the black or white wire -- needs both to
make a complete circuit.

The problem could also be in the circuit breaker panel, possibly a
loose wire coming out of the breaker. If there is one wire coming out
of the breaker then this isn't the fault site (the hall light works --
remember the "common point"?). Trace the wire to a junction box.

Good luck!

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