1840

1840 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1840; MDCCCXL
Ab urbe condita	2593
Armenian calendar	1289; ԹՎ ՌՄՁԹ
Assyrian calendar	6590
Balinese saka calendar	1761–1762
Bengali calendar	1247
Berber calendar	2790
British Regnal year	3 Vict. 1 – 4 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2384
Burmese calendar	1202
Byzantine calendar	7348–7349
Chinese calendar	己亥年 (Earth Pig); 4536 or 4476; — to —; 庚子年 (Metal Rat); 4537 or 4477
Coptic calendar	1556–1557
Discordian calendar	3006
Ethiopian calendar	1832–1833
Hebrew calendar	5600–5601
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1896–1897
- Shaka Samvat	1761–1762
- Kali Yuga	4940–4941
Holocene calendar	11840
Igbo calendar	840–841
Iranian calendar	1218–1219
Islamic calendar	1255–1256
Japanese calendar	Tenpō 11; (天保１１年)
Javanese calendar	1767–1768
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4173
Minguo calendar	72 before ROC ; 民前72年
Nanakshahi calendar	372
Thai solar calendar	2382–2383
Tibetan calendar	阴土猪年; (female Earth-Pig); 1966 or 1585 or 813; — to —; 阳金鼠年; (male Iron-Rat); 1967 or 1586 or 814

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century ; 19th century ; 20th century ;
Decades:	1820s ; 1830s ; 1840s ; 1850s ; 1860s ;
Years:	1837 ; 1838 ; 1839 ; 1840 ; 1841 ; 1842 ; 1843 ;

Last updated July 13, 2019

1840 ( MDCCCXL ) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar , the 1840th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 840th year of the 2nd millennium , the 40th year of the 19th century , and the 1st year of the 1840s decade. As of the start of 1840, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Roman numerals Numbers in the Roman numeral system

Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages. Numbers in this system are represented by combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet. Modern usage employs seven symbols, each with a fixed integer value:

A leap year is a calendar year containing one additional day added to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical or seasonal year. Because seasons and astronomical events do not repeat in a whole number of days, calendars that have the same number of days in each year drift over time with respect to the event that the year is supposed to track. By inserting an additional day or month into the year, the drift can be corrected. A year that is not a leap year is called a common year.

A leap year starting on Wednesday is any year with 366 days that begins on Wednesday, 1 January, and ends on Thursday, 31 December. Its dominical letters hence are ED, such as the years 1908, 1936, 1964, 1992, 2020, 2048, 2076, and 2116 in the Gregorian calendar or, likewise, 2004 and 2032 in the obsolete Julian calendar. Any leap year that starts on Monday, Wednesday or Thursday has two Friday the 13ths. This leap year contains two Friday the 13ths in March and November. Common years starting on Thursday share this characteristic, but also have another in February.

Events

January–March

January 3 – One of the predecessor papers of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia, The Port Phillip Herald, is founded.
January 10 – Uniform Penny Post is introduced in the United Kingdom.
January 13 – The steamship Lexington burns and sinks in icy waters, four miles off the coast of Long Island; 139 die, only four survive.
January 19 – Captain Charles Wilkes' United States Exploring Expedition sights what becomes known as Wilkes Land in the southeast quadrant of Antarctica, claiming it for the United States, and providing evidence that Antarctica is a complete continent.^[1]
January 21 – Jules Dumont d'Urville discovers Adélie Land in Antarctica, claiming it for France.^[2]
January 22 – British colonists reach New Zealand, officially founding the settlement of Wellington.
February – The Rhodes blood libel is made against the Jews of Rhodes.
February 5 – The murder of a Capuchin friar and his Greek servant leads to the Damascus affair, a highly publicized case of blood libel against the Jews of Damascus.
February 6 – The Treaty of Waitangi, granting British sovereignty in New Zealand, is signed.
February 10 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
February 11 – Gaetano Donizetti's opera La fille du régiment premieres in Paris.
March 1
- William Hobson, the first Governor of New Zealand, suffers a stroke.
- Adolphe Thiers becomes prime minister of France.
Captain William Hobson was a British Royal Navy officer who served as the first Governor of New Zealand. He was a co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi.
Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers was a French statesman and historian. He was the second elected President of France, and the first President of the French Third Republic.
The July Monarchy was a liberal constitutional monarchy in France under Louis Philippe I, starting with the July Revolution of 1830 and ending with the Revolution of 1848. It marks the end of the Bourbon Restoration (1814–1830). It began with the overthrow of the conservative government of Charles X, the last king of the House of Bourbon.
March 4 – Alexander S. Wolcott and John Johnson open their Daguerreian Parlor on Broadway (Manhattan), the world's first commercial photography portrait studio.
March 9 – The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad is completed, from Wilmington, North Carolina to Weldon, North Carolina. At 161.5 miles (259.9 km), it is the world's longest railroad.^[3]

January 3 is the third day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 362 days remain until the end of the year. Perihelion, the point during the year when the Earth is closest to the Sun, occurs around this date.

<i>Herald Sun</i> Australian tabloid newspaper

The Herald Sun is a morning newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia, published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of News Corp. The Herald Sun primarily serves Victoria and shares many articles with other News Corporation daily newspapers, especially those from Australia.

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia and Oceania. Its name refers to an urban agglomeration of 9,992.5 km² (3,858.1 sq mi), comprising a metropolitan area with 31 municipalities, and is also the common name for its city centre. The city occupies much of the coastline of Port Phillip bay and spreads into the hinterlands towards the Dandenong and Macedon ranges, Mornington Peninsula and Yarra Valley. It has a population of approximately 5 million, and its inhabitants are referred to as "Melburnians".

April–June

April – The Raleigh and Gaston Railroad is completed from Raleigh to near Weldon, North Carolina.^[4]
April 2 – The Washingtonian movement for teetotalism is founded by a group of alcoholics in Baltimore, Maryland.
April 3 – Johnny Appleseed meets Abraham Lincoln, and plants apple trees in New York City.
April 15 – King's College Hospital opens in London.
May 1 – Britain issues the Penny Black, the world's first postage stamp; it becomes valid for the pre-payment of postage from May 6.
May 7 – Great Natchez Tornado: A massive tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi during the early afternoon. Before it is over, 317 people are killed and 109 injured (the second deadliest tornado in U.S. history).
May 21 – New Zealand is declared a British colony.
June 7 – On the death of Frederick William III of Prussia, he is succeeded on the throne of the Kingdom of Prussia (which he has ruled for more than 40 years) by his eldest son Frederick William IV.
June 12 – 23 – The World Anti-Slavery Convention is organised by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, at Exeter Hall in London, England. Arguments over the exclusion of women from the convention have important ramifications for the movement for women's suffrage in the United States.

April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, the fifth in the early Julian, the first of four months to have a length of 30 days, and the second of five months to have a length of less than 31 days.

The Raleigh and Gaston Railroad was a Raleigh, North Carolina-based railroad opened in April 1840 between Raleigh and the town of Gaston, North Carolina, on the Roanoke River. It was North Carolina's second railroad. The length was 100 miles (160 km) and built with 4 ft 8 in gauge. The Raleigh and Gaston's tracks remains in service today as part of CSX's S Line as the Norlina Subdivision of CSX's Florence Division.

Raleigh is the capital of the state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County in the United States. Raleigh is the second-largest city in the state, after Charlotte. Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees, which line the streets in the heart of the city. The city covers a land area of 142.8 square miles (370 km²). The U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city's population as 479,332 as of July 1, 2018. It is one of the fastest-growing cities in the country. The city of Raleigh is named after Sir Walter Raleigh, who established the lost Roanoke Colony in present-day Dare County.

July–September

July 4: RMS Britannia RMS Britannia 1840 paddlewheel.jpg — July 4: RMS *Britannia*

July 4 – The Cunard Line's 700-ton wooden paddlewheel steamer RMS Britannia departs from Liverpool, bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the first steam transatlantic passenger mail service.^[5]
July 15 – The Austrian Empire, the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Russian Empire sign the Convention of London with the Sublime Porte, ruler of the Ottoman Empire.
July 21 – August Borsig's steam locomotive, the first built in Germany, competes against a Stephenson-built locomotive on the Berlin–Jüterbog railroad; the Borsig locomotive wins by 10 minutes.
July 23
- Pedro II is declared "of age" prematurely, and begins to reassert central control in Brazil.
- The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
Dom Pedro II, nicknamed "the Magnanimous", was the second and last monarch of the Empire of Brazil, reigning for over 58 years. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, the seventh child of Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil and Empress Dona Maria Leopoldina and thus a member of the Brazilian branch of the House of Braganza. His father's abrupt abdication and departure to Europe in 1831 left the five year-old as Emperor and led to a grim and lonely childhood and adolescence, obliged to spend his time studying in preparation for rule. He knew only brief moments of happiness and encountered few friends of his age. His experiences with court intrigues and political disputes during this period greatly affected his later character; he grew into a man with a strong sense of duty and devotion toward his country and his people, yet increasingly resentful of his role as monarch.
The Empire of Brazil was a 19th-century state that broadly comprised the territories which form modern Brazil and Uruguay. Its government was a representative parliamentary constitutional monarchy under the rule of Emperors Dom Pedro I and his son Dom Pedro II. A colony of the Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil became the seat of the Portuguese colonial Empire in 1808, when the Portuguese Prince regent, later King Dom João VI, fled from Napoleon's invasion of Portugal and established himself and his government in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. João VI later returned to Portugal, leaving his eldest son and heir, Pedro, to rule the Kingdom of Brazil as regent. On 7 September 1822, Pedro declared the independence of Brazil and, after waging a successful war against his father's kingdom, was acclaimed on 12 October as Pedro I, the first Emperor of Brazil. The new country was huge but sparsely populated and ethnically diverse.
The Province of Canada was a British colony in North America from 1841 to 1867. Its formation reflected recommendations made by John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham in the Report on the Affairs of British North America following the Rebellions of 1837–1838.
August 10 – Fortsas hoax: A number of book collectors gather in Binche, Belgium, to attend a non-existent book auction of the late Count of Fortsas.
September 10 – Ottoman and British troops bombard Beirut, and land troops on the coast, to pressure Egyptian Muhammad Ali to retreat from the country.
September 16 – Joseph Strutt hands over the deeds and papers concerning the Derby Arboretum, which is to become England's first public park.
September 30 – The frigate Belle-Poule arrives in Cherbourg, bringing back the remains of Napoleon from Saint Helena to France.

July 4 is the 185th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 180 days remain until the end of the year. The Aphelion, the point in the year when the Earth is farthest from the Sun, occurs around this date.

Cunard Line is a British–American cruise line based at Carnival House at Southampton, England, operated by Carnival UK and owned by Carnival Corporation & plc. Since 2011, Cunard and its three ships have been registered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

The ton is a unit of measure. It has a long history and has acquired a number of meanings and uses over the years. It is used principally as a unit of mass. Its original use as a measurement of volume has continued in the capacity of cargo ships and in terms such as the freight ton. It can also be used as a measure of energy, for truck classification, or as a colloquial term.

October–December

October 7 – William II becomes King of the Netherlands.
October 8 – A firman (imperial decree) of Sultan Abdulmejid I replaces Bashir Shihab II as Emir of Mount Lebanon with Prince Bashir Chehab III (Bashir Qasim al-Chehab).^[6]
October 11 – Maronite leader Bashir Shihab II surrenders to the Ottomans,^[6] and on October 14 goes into exile, initially in Malta.
November 4 – U.S. presidential election, 1840: William Henry Harrison defeats Martin Van Buren in a landslide.
December 7 – David Livingstone leaves Britain for Africa.
December 15 – The body of Napoleon is laid to rest in Les Invalides in Paris.
December 19 - Henry Tucker appointed as Colonial Storekeeper of the Crown Colony of New Zealand
December 21 – Stockport Viaduct is completed in North West England.^[7] It is one of the largest brick structures in Europe.

Date unknown

Louis Agassiz publishes his Etudes sur les glaciers ("Study on Glaciers", 2 volumes), the first major scientific work to propose that the Earth has seen an ice age.
The first English translation of Goethe's Theory of Colours by Charles Eastlake is published.
J. M. W. Turner first displays his painting The Slave Ship .
European traders set up the first tea gardens in the Indian subcontinent at Chittagong, using Chinese tea plants from the Calcutta Botanical Garden.
The first known photograph of Niagara Falls, a daguerreotype, is taken by English chemist Hugh Lee Pattinson.
The United States Census Bureau reports 6,000 free Negroes holding slaves in the nation.^{[ citation needed ]}
Approximate date – Volcanic eruption of Tinakula in the Solomon Islands causes the island to be depopulated.

Ongoing

Births

January–June

January 1 – Dugald Drummond, British railway engineer (d. 1912)
January 3 – Father Damien, Belgian missionary priest (d. 1889)
January 18 – Alfred Percy Sinnett, British writer (d. 1921)
January 21 – Sophia Jex-Blake, English physician (d. 1912)
January 22 – Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (d. 1907)
January 23 – Ernst Abbe, German physicist (d. 1905)
January 26 – John Clayton Adams, British landscape artist (d. 1906)
February 4 – Hiram Stevens Maxim, American firearms inventor (d. 1916)
February 5 – John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (d. 1921)
February 9 – William T. Sampson, American admiral (d. 1902)
February 13 – Sophie Opel, German industrialist (d. 1913)
February 15 – Titu Maiorescu, Romanian Prime Minister (d. 1917)
February 21 – Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1904)
February 22 – August Bebel, German politician (d. 1913)
February 23 – Carl Menger, Austrian economist (d. 1921)
February 29 – John Philip Holland, Irish inventor (d. 1914)
March 12 – Masataka Kawase (a.k.a. Kogorō Ishikawa), Japanese political activist, diplomat (d. 1919)
March 28 – Emin Pasha, German doctor, African administrator (d. 1892)
March 31 – Benjamin Baker, English civil engineer (d. 1907)
April 9 – Praskovya Uvarova, Russian archaeologist (d. 1924)
April 2 – Émile Zola, French writer (d. 1902)
April 22 – Odilon Redon, French painter (d. 1916)
April 27 – Edward Whymper, English mountaineer (d. 1911)
May 7 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (d. 1893)
May 10 – Eliza Trask Hill, American activist, journalist, philanthropist (d. 1908)
May 13 – Alphonse Daudet, French writer (d. 1897)
June 2
- Thomas Hardy, English writer (d. 1928)
- Émile Munier, French artist (d. 1895)
June 7 – Princess Charlotte of Belgium, Empress of Mexico (d. 1927)
June 9 – Jennie Casseday, American philanthropist (d. 1893)
June 10 – Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (d. 1920)
June 13 – Augusta Lundin, Swedish fashion designer (d. 1919)
June 14 – William F. Nast, American attaché, railroad executive, inventor, and father of Condé Nast (d. 1893)
June 21 – Edward Stanley Gibbons, English philatelist, founder of Stanley Gibbons Ltd. (d. 1913)

July–December

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August 4 – Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German sexologist (d. 1902)
August 25 – George C. Magoun, American railroad executive (d. 1893)
September 12 – Mary Jane Patterson, the first African-American woman to receive a B.A degree in 1862. (d. 1894)
September 22 – D. M. Canright, American Seventh-day Adventist minister and author, later one of the church's severest critics (d. 1919)
September 27
- Alfred Thayer Mahan, United States Navy admiral, American geostrategist and historian (d. 1914)
- Thomas Nast, American caricaturist, cartoonist (d. 1902)
October 9 – Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905)
October 12 – Helena Modjeska, Polish stage actress (d. 1909)
October 16 – Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900)
November 7 – H. G. Haugan, Norwegian-born American railroad, banking executive (d. 1921)
November 12 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (d. 1917)
November 14 – Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
November 21 – Victoria, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom and Empress of Germany (d. 1901)
November 29 – Rhoda Broughton, Welsh writer (d. 1920)
December 17 – Nozu Michitsura, Japanese general (d. 1908)

date unknown

Robert Wentworth Little, British occultist (d. 1878)
earliest probable date – Crazy Horse (Tȟašúŋke Witkó), Chief of the Oglala Lakota (k. 1877)

Deaths

January–June

January 6 – Fanny Burney, English novelist (b. 1752)
January 22 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752)
February 13 – Nicolas Joseph Maison, French marshal, Minister of War (b. 1770)
March 11 – George Wolf, American politician (b. 1777)
March 17 – Lady Lucy Whitmore, English noblewoman and hymnwriter (b. 1792)
April 25 – Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician, geometer, and physicist (b. 1781)
May 1 – Joseph Williamson, philanthropist, builder of the Williamson Tunnels (b. 1769)
May 6
- Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin, Russian aristocrat, priest (b. 1770)
- Francisco de Paula Santander, President of Colombia (b. 1792)
May 7 – Caspar David Friedrich, German artist (b. 1774)
May 13 – Leonard Gyllenhaal, Swedish military officer, entomologist (b. 1752)
May 14 – Carl Ludvig Engel, German-Finnish architect (b. 1778)
May 26 – Sidney Smith, British admiral (b. 1764)
May 25 – Louisa Capper, English writer, philosopher and poet (b. 1776)
May 27 – Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist, composer (b. 1782)
June 7 – King Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770)

July–December

July 7 – Nikolai Stankevich, Russian philosopher, poet (b. 1813)
August 25 – Karl Leberecht Immermann, German novelist, dramatist (b. 1796)
September 11 – Jean-Gabriel Perboyre, French Catholic missionary, martyr in China (b. 1802)
September 14 – Joseph Smith, Sr., American father of Joseph Smith, Jr. (b. 1771)
September 18 – Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Constantinople-born French polymath (b. 1783)
September 20 – José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, first leader of independent Paraguay (b. 1766)
September 22 – Anne Lister, English landowner, diarist, mountaineer, and traveller (b. 1791)
November 2 – Józef Kossakowski (colonel), Polish-Lithuanian statesman (b. 1771)
December 11 – Emperor Kōkaku of Japan (b. 1771)

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Events from the year 1840 in the United States.

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Ab urbe condita	2593
Armenian calendar	1289 ԹՎ ՌՄՁԹ
Assyrian calendar	6590
Balinese saka calendar	1761–1762
Bengali calendar	1247
Berber calendar	2790
British Regnal year	3 Vict. 1 – 4 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2384
Burmese calendar	1202
Byzantine calendar	7348–7349
Chinese calendar	己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4536 or 4476 — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 4537 or 4477
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