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 January 13, 2021

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.

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 – Adolphe Thiers becomes prime minister of France.
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]

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.

July–September

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.
August 1 – The end of the slave trade in the United Kingdom by the Slavery Abolition Act
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.

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 21 – Stockport Viaduct is completed in North West England.^[7] It is one of the largest brick structures in Europe.

Date unknown

The first English translation of Goethe's Theory of Colours by Charles Eastlake is published.
The first known photograph of Niagara Falls, a daguerreotype, is taken by English chemist Hugh Lee Pattinson.
Kajima, a construction company based in Japan, is founded in Edo (modern-day Tokyo).^[8]
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 9 – Samuel Baldwin Marks Young, American general, first Chief of Staff of the United States Army (d. 1924)
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)
February 4 – Sir Hiram Maxim, American-born British firearms inventor (d. 1916)
February 5 – John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (d. 1921)
February 9 – William T. Sampson, American admiral (d. 1902)
February 15 – Titu Maiorescu, 23rd Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1917)
February 21 – Murad V, 33rd 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 of the submarine (d. 1914)
March 8 – Eduard von Knorr, German admiral (d. 1920)
March 28 – Emin Pasha, German doctor, African administrator (d. 1892)
March 31 – Sir Benjamin Baker, English civil engineer (d. 1907)
April 2 – Émile Zola, French writer (d. 1902)
April 11 – Robert Wentworth Little, British occultist (d. 1878)
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 – Carlota of Mexico, 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 21 – Edward Stanley Gibbons, English philatelist, founder of Stanley Gibbons Ltd. (d. 1913)

July–December

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July 1 – Edward Clodd, English banker, writer and anthropologist (d. 1930)
August 4 – Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German sexologist (d. 1902)
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, 2nd 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 (d. 1901)
November 29 – Rhoda Broughton, Welsh writer (d. 1920)
December 17 – Nozu Michitsura, Japanese general (d. 1908)

date unknown

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 12 – Franz Anton von Gerstner, Austrian railway engineer (b. 1796)^[9]
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)^[10]
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)^[11]
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, "the first modern lesbian" (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.

References

↑ "Antarctic Exploration — Chronology". Quark Expeditions. 2004. Archived from the original on September 8, 2006. Retrieved October 20, 2006.
↑ Guillon, Jacques (1986). Dumont d'Urville. Paris: France-Empire. ISBN 2-7048-0472-9.
↑ "Railroad — Wilmington & Raleigh (later Weldon)". North Carolina Business History. 2006. Retrieved December 2, 2011.
↑ "Railroads — prior to the Civil War". North Carolina Business History. 2006. Archived from the original on July 26, 2011. Retrieved December 2, 2011.
↑ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 263–264. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
1 2 Farah, Caesar E.; Centre for Lebanese Studies (Great Britain) (2000). Politics of Interventionism in Ottoman Lebanon, 1830-1861. I. B. Tauris. pp. 41–43. ISBN 9781860640568.
↑ Holt, Geoffrey O. (1978). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Vol. 10: The North West. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. p. 117. ISBN 0-7153-7521-0.
↑ "Corporate Data". Kajima Corporation. Retrieved January 11, 2021.
↑ Gamst, Frederick (1990). "Franz Anton Ritter von Gerstner, Student of America's Pioneering Railroads". Railroad History (163): 13–27. JSTOR 43521426 . Retrieved November 15, 2020.
↑ Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica. Hamilton, Adams, and Company. 1908. p. 79.
↑ Isabel T. Lublin (1904). Primer of German Literature. Swan Sonnenschein. p. 213.

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[1] "Antarctic Exploration — Chronology". Quark Expeditions. 2004. Archived from the original on September 8, 2006. Retrieved October 20, 2006.

[2] Guillon, Jacques (1986). Dumont d'Urville. Paris: France-Empire. ISBN 2-7048-0472-9.

[3] "Railroad — Wilmington & Raleigh (later Weldon)". North Carolina Business History. 2006. Retrieved December 2, 2011.

[4] "Railroads — prior to the Civil War". North Carolina Business History. 2006. Archived from the original on July 26, 2011. Retrieved December 2, 2011.

[5] Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 263–264. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.

[Farah-6] 1 2 Farah, Caesar E.; Centre for Lebanese Studies (Great Britain) (2000). Politics of Interventionism in Ottoman Lebanon, 1830-1861. I. B. Tauris. pp. 41–43. ISBN 9781860640568.

[7] Holt, Geoffrey O. (1978). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Vol. 10: The North West. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. p. 117. ISBN 0-7153-7521-0.

[8] "Corporate Data". Kajima Corporation. Retrieved January 11, 2021.

[9] Gamst, Frederick (1990). "Franz Anton Ritter von Gerstner, Student of America's Pioneering Railroads". Railroad History (163): 13–27. JSTOR 43521426 . Retrieved November 15, 2020.

[10] Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica. Hamilton, Adams, and Company. 1908. p. 79.

[11] Isabel T. Lublin (1904). Primer of German Literature. Swan Sonnenschein. p. 213.

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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

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April–June

July–September

October–December

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July–December

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July–December

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