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Historical Events In 1840

Tuesday, 19 March 2024

Jul 04   On this day in history the Cunard Line's 700 ton wooden paddle steamer RMS Britannia departs from Liverpool bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia on the first transatlantic crossing with a scheduled end.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jul 06   Christian Hebbel's "Judith," premieres in Berlin in the year 1840.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jul 12   On this day in history abraham Goldfaden, Eastern European Yiddish dramatist  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jul 15   In the year 1840 england, Russia, Austria & Prussia signs Quadruple Alliance  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jul 22   Josef Jawurek, composer, dies at 83 in the year 1840.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jul 23   Frantisek Max Knize, composer, dies at 55 on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jul 23   In the year 1840 union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper & Lower Canada  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jul 25   On this day in history flora Adams Darling, founded Daughters of American Revolution  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jul 27   Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 01   In the year 1840 aldine Sillman Kieffer, composer  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 01   On this day in history labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 10   The 'Star of the East' first known balloon to fly in Canada on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 13   Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (Eros) on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 14   In the year 1840 baron Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 17   In the year 1840 wilfrid Scawen Blunt, England, writer (Irish Land League)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 18   Antony CW Staring, Dutch patriot/poet (Jaromir), dies at 73 in the year 1840.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 18   Organization of American Society of Dental Surgeons founded (NY) on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 24   In the year 1840 joseph Waast Aubert Nonot, composer, dies at 89  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 25   In the year 1840 k L Immermann, writer, dies at 44  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 27   William Kneass, 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40), dies in office on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 28   In the year 1840 9 Jewish prisoners are released from Damascus jails  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 28   Ira D Sankey, US evangelist/composer/singer (Gospel hymns) on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Sep 03   On this day in history jacob Fabricius, composer  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Sep 08   On this day in history john H van de Palm, theologist/literature/speaker, dies at 77  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Sep 09   Gentil T Antheunis, Flemish poet/music/composer on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Sep 12   On this day in history composer Robert Schumann marries Clara Wieck  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Sep 14   George Elbridge Whiting, composer on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Sep 15   In the year 1840 franz Xaver Pechacek, composer, dies at 47  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Sep 21   On this day in history murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Sep 25   On this day in history jacques-Etienne-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald, Duc de Tarente, soldier  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Sep 27   In the year 1840 alfred Thayer Mahan, US, naval officer (Influence of Sea Power)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Sep 28   On this day in history alexander Swift "Sandie" Pendleton, Lt-Col (Confederate Army)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Sep 30   Johan Severin Svendsen, composer in the year 1840.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Oct 04   In the year 1840 charles Ferdinand Lenepveu, composer  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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Famous Birthdays In 1840

Famous People Born In This Year In History

Jan 03   Father Joseph Damien de Veuster, Belgium, helped lepers in Hawaii was born in the year 1840.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 05   John Doby Kennedy, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 10   In the year 1840 birth of louis Nazaire Bégin, French Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d. 1925)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 18   Austin Dobson, England, poet/critic/biographer was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 18   Ernst Rudorff, composer was born in the year 1840.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 21   In the year 1840 birth of sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, pioneer English woman physician  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 22   Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (d. 1907) was born in the year 1840.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 23   On this day in history birth of ernst Abbe, Germany, physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Famous Deaths In 1840

Famous People Died In This Year In History

Jan 06   In the year 1840 death of fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (b. 1752)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 22   In the year 1840 death of johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Mar 02   Heinrich Olbers, German astronomer (comets & asteroids), dies at 81 in the year 1840.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Mar 12   In the year 1840 friedrich Westenholz, composer, dies at 61  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Mar 22   Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (b. 1798) died in the year 1840.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Mar 28   In the year 1840 simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician, dies at 89  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Mar 30   George (Beau) Brummell, Dandy, dies in the year 1840.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Apr 19   Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Roman catholic bishop of Montreal (b. 1777) died on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard


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