Page 5: Historical Events In 1840

Oct 05   Fran Gerbic, composer on this day in history.   

Oct 07   In the year 1840 willem I resigns as king of Netherlands   

Oct 08   In the year 1840 1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed   

Oct 08   In the year 1840 first Hawaiian constitution proclaimed   

Oct 12   Helena Modjeska, Poland, Shakespearian actress (Juliet)/anti-Russian in the year 1840.   

Oct 14   In the year 1840 maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta.   

Oct 30   Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano in the year 1840.   

Nov 12   Auguste Rodin, France, sculptor (Kiss, Thinker) on this day in history.   

Nov 12   The birth of Auguste Rodin, French sculptor on this day in history.   

Nov 14   Claude Monet, France, impressionist (Water Lilies) on this day in history.   

Nov 14   In the year 1840 the birth of Claude Monet, French painter   

Nov 15   In the year 1840 aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet/friend of Tsjaikovski [NS=11/27]   

Nov 16   On this day in history frederick Scotson Clark, composer   

Nov 21   Victoria, Empress of Germany/Queen of Prussia on this day in history.   

Nov 24   In the year 1840 cornelis RT Krayenhoff, fortress architect/cartographer, dies at 82   

Nov 25   In the year 1840 hugo Verriest, Flemish author/poet (Flemish Movement)   

Nov 27   On this day in history aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet/friend of Tsjaikovski [OS=11/15]   

Dec 01   In the year 1840 plague in Dalmatia   

Dec 01   Smallpox in South Africa on this day in history.   

Dec 02   In the year 1840 gaetano Donizetti's opera "La Favorita," premieres in Paris   

Dec 02   In the year 1840 the opera "Die Favoritin" is produced (Paris)   

Dec 07   Hermann Goetz, composer in the year 1840.   

Dec 11   Kemal Bey, Turkey, poet/author (Fatherland-1872) on this day in history.   

Dec 17   Christian Frederik Emil Horneman, composer on this day in history.   

Dec 21   In the year 1840 mehmed N Kemal, Turkish journalist (Vatan)   

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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   Louis Nazaire Bégin, French Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d. 1925) was born in the year 1840.   

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   Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, pioneer English woman physician was born on this day in history.   

Jan 22   In the year 1840 birth of ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (d. 1907)   

Jan 23   On this day in history birth of ernst Abbe, Germany, physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company)   

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

Jan 22   Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752) died on this day in history.   

Mar 02   In the year 1840 heinrich Olbers, German astronomer (comets & asteroids), dies at 81   

Mar 12   Friedrich Westenholz, composer, dies at 61 on this day in history.   

Mar 22   In the year 1840 death of Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (b. 1798)   

Mar 28   In the year 1840 simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician, dies at 89   

Mar 30   George (Beau) Brummell, Dandy, dies on this day in history.   

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