Historical Events In 1840

Jan 01   1st recorded bowling match in US, Knickerbocker Alleys, NYC in the year 1840.   

Jan 03   1st deep sea sounding on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Father Joseph Damien de Veuster, Belgium, helped lepers in Hawaii on this day in history.   

Jan 03   The first deep sea sounding is recorded on this day in history.   

Jan 05   On this day in history john Doby Kennedy, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896   

Jan 05   On this day in history records show 95,820 licensed public houses in England on this date   

Jan 10   Penny Post mail system is starts in the year 1840.   

Jan 10   On this day in history penny Post mail system started   

Jan 13   On this day in history the steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.   

Jan 18   In the year 1840 austin Dobson, England, poet/critic/biographer   

Jan 18   Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, 1st US electrical journal, appears in the year 1840.   

Jan 18   Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, first US electrical journal, appears in the year 1840.   

Jan 19   On this day in history antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (US claim)   

Jan 19   LT Charles Wilkes, USN is first American to discover Antarctic coast in the year 1840.   

Jan 20   In the year 1840 dumont D'Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica   

Jan 20   Dumont D'Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica on this day in history.   

Jan 20   Dutch King Willem II crowned in the year 1840.   

Jan 21   In the year 1840 sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, pioneer English woman physician   

Jan 22   On this day in history british colonists reach New Zealand.   

Jan 22   The first British colonists arrive at Port Nicholson, New Zealand in the year 1840.   

Jan 23   Ernst Abbe, Germany, physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company) in the year 1840.   

Feb 01   Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1st in US, incorporated in the year 1840.   

Feb 01   The first U.S. college of Dentistry is chartered in Baltimore, MD in the year 1840.   

Feb 02   Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer on this day in history.   

Feb 05   On this day in history hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle)   

Feb 05   The birth of John Dunlop, Scottish inventor of pneumatic bicycle tire on this day in history.   

Feb 06   Waitangi Day; treaty signed between Britain & Maoris of New Zealand on this day in history.   

Feb 06   Waitangi Day; treaty signed between Britain & Maoris of NZ on this day in history.   

Feb 10   British queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert von Saksen-Coburg on this day in history.   

Feb 10   Queen Victoria of England marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in the year 1840.   

Feb 11   Gaetano Donizetti's Opera "La Fille du Regiment," premieres in Paris on this day in history.   

Feb 11   On this day in history sanuel Dana Greene, Lt Cmdr (Union Navy), died in 1884   

Feb 12   In the year 1840 housatonic Railroad opens   

Feb 13   Georg Jacobi, composer in the year 1840.   

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Jan 03   In the year 1840 birth of father Joseph Damien de Veuster, Belgium, helped lepers in Hawaii   

Jan 05   John Doby Kennedy, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 was born in the year 1840.   

Jan 10   On this day in history birth of louis Nazaire Bégin, French Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d. 1925)   

Jan 18   On this day in history birth of austin Dobson, England, poet/critic/biographer   

Jan 18   On this day in history birth of ernst Rudorff, composer   

Jan 21   On this day in history birth of sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, pioneer English woman physician   

Jan 22   Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (d. 1907) was born in the year 1840.   

Jan 23   Ernst Abbe, Germany, physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 06   Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (b. 1752) died in the year 1840.   

Jan 22   On this day in history death of johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752)   

Mar 02   On this day in history heinrich Olbers, German astronomer (comets & asteroids), dies at 81   

Mar 12   In the year 1840 friedrich Westenholz, composer, dies at 61   

Mar 22   Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (b. 1798) died in the year 1840.   

Mar 28   On this day in history simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician, dies at 89   

Mar 30   On this day in history george (Beau) Brummell, Dandy, dies   

Apr 19   Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Roman catholic bishop of Montreal (b. 1777) died in the year 1840.