Presented by Greg Duncan...
Back to GREGSITE
By the way... YOU are GREGSITE visitor number
Special Events for the Year 1840 - back to GREGSITE
| Born : | 07/12/1840 | Abraham Goldfaden, Eastern European Yiddish dramatist |
| Born : | 09/28/1840 | Alexander Swift "Sandie" Pendleton, LCol (Confederate Army) |
| Born : | 09/27/1840 | Alfred Thayer Mahan, US, naval officer (Influence of Sea Power) |
| Born : | 11/12/1840 | Auguste Rodin, France, sculptor (Kiss, Thinker) |
| Born : | 01/18/1840 | Austin Dobson, England, poet/critic/biographer |
| Born : | 08/14/1840 | Baron Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist |
| Born : | 02/23/1840 | Carl Menger, Austrian economist |
| Born : | 10/30/1840 | Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano |
| Born : | 06/07/1840 | Charlotte MAAVCL, princess of Belgium/Emperor of Mexico (1864-67) |
| Born : | 11/14/1840 | Claude Monet, France, impressionist (Water Lilies) |
| Born : | 03/05/1840 | Constance Fenimore Woolson, NH, writer (Jupiter Lights) |
| Born : | 06/22/1840 | Earnest Debes, German cartographer (Baedeker) |
| Born : | 03/11/1840 | Edmund Kirby Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 |
| Born : | 04/27/1840 | Edward Whymper, 1st to climb Matterhorn (1865) |
| Born : | 01/23/1840 | Ernst Abbe, Germany, physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company) |
| Born : | 06/03/1840 | Eugeen of Oye, Flemish writer/poet (Morning Twilight) |
| Born : | 02/22/1840 | F August Bebel, German social-democrat |
| Born : | 01/03/1840 | Father Joseph Damien de Veuster, Belgium, helped lepers in Hawaii |
| Born : | 07/25/1840 | Flora Adams Darling, founded Daughters of American Revolution |
| Born : | 05/24/1840 | Frederick Walker, painter |
| Born : | 08/13/1840 | Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (Eros) |
| Born : | 08/31/1840 | Giovannini Verga (Italian writer (Eros) [or 8/13] |
| Born : | 10/12/1840 | Helena Modjeska, Poland, Shakespearian actress (Juliet)/anti-Russian |
| Born : | 06/11/1840 | Henri Braekeleer, Flemish painter/etser |
| Born : | 02/05/1840 | Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle) |
| Born : | 11/25/1840 | Hugo Verriest, Flemish author/poet (Flemish beweging) |
| Born : | 08/28/1840 | Ira D Sankey, US evangelist/composer/singer (Gospel hymns) |
| Born : | 06/12/1840 | Jakub Arbes, Czech author (Modern Upri) |
| Born : | 04/25/1840 | James Dearing, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1865 |
| Born : | 10/05/1840 | John Addington Symonds, Brit historian/writer (Probs in Greek Ethics) |
| Born : | 02/05/1840 | John Boyd Dunlop, Scotland, developer (pneumatic rubber tire) |
| Born : | 01/05/1840 | John Doby Kennedy, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 |
| Born : | 03/31/1840 | John Herbert Kelly, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
| Born : | 02/29/1840 | John Philip Holland, pioneer in submarine building |
| Born : | 12/11/1840 | Kemal Bey, Turkey, poet/author (Fatherland-1872) |
| Born : | 05/13/1840 | L-M Alphonse Daudet, French writer (Tartarin the Tarascon) |
| Born : | 12/21/1840 | Mehmed N Kemal, Turkish journalist (Vatan) |
| Born : | 09/21/1840 | Murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876) |
| Born : | 05/07/1840 | Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Votkinsk Russia, composer (1812 Overture) |
| Born : | 04/25/1840 | Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (1812 Overture) (5/7 NS) |
| Born : | 07/27/1840 | Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
| Born : | 07/01/1840 | Robert S Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer |
| Born : | 02/11/1840 | Sanuel Dana Greene, Lt Cmdr (Union Navy), died in 1884 |
| Born : | 01/21/1840 | Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, pioneer English woman physician |
| Born : | 05/02/1840 | Theodor Herzl, Austria, journalist/founded Zionist movement |
| Born : | 06/10/1840 | Thomas Fentress Toon, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1902 |
| Born : | 06/02/1840 | Thomas Hardy, England, poet/novelist (Far from the Madding Crowd) |
| Born : | 09/27/1840 | Thomas Nast, political cartoonist of late 1800s America |
| Born : | 11/21/1840 | Victoria, Emperor of Germany/Queen of Prussia |
| Born : | 08/17/1840 | Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, England, writer (Irish Land League) |
| Born : | 06/06/1840 | William Francis Bartlett, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
| Born : | 10/30/1840 | William G Sumner, US sociologist/political analyst |
| Born : | 04/02/1840 | mile Zola, France, novelist (Nana, J'Accuse) |
| Died : | 06/07/1840 | Frederik Willem III, King of Prussia (1797-1840), dies at 69 |
| Died : | 03/02/1840 | Heinrich Olbers, discoverer of comets & asteroids, dies |
| Died : | 09/25/1840 | Jacques-Etienne-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald, Duc de Tarente, soldier |
| Died : | 06/29/1840 | Lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano, dies at 65 |
| Died : | 05/27/1840 | Niccolo Paganini, violinist, dies |
| Died : | 04/25/1840 | Simon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician (Poisson verdeling), dies |
| Died : | 08/27/1840 | William Kneass, 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40), dies in office |
| Special : | 10/08/1840 | 1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed |
| Special : | 05/01/1840 | 1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued |
| Special : | 01/03/1840 | 1st deep sea sounding |
| Special : | 05/06/1840 | 1st postage stamps (Penny Black) issued (Great Britain) |
| Special : | 01/01/1840 | 1st recorded bowling match in US, Knickerbocker Alleys, NYC |
| Special : | 02/16/1840 | American Charles Wilkes discovers Shackleton Ice Shelf, Antarctica |
| Special : | 01/19/1840 | Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (US claim) |
| Special : | 02/01/1840 | Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1st in US, incorporated |
| Special : | 02/10/1840 | British queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert von Saksen-Coburg |
| Special : | 03/23/1840 | Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerrotype) |
| Special : | 01/20/1840 | Dumont D'Urville discovers Adlie Land, Antarctica |
| Special : | 01/18/1840 | Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, 1st US electrical journal, appears |
| Special : | 02/12/1840 | Housatonic Railroad opens |
| Special : | 06/12/1840 | Meteorite hits Uden |
| Special : | 12/02/1840 | Opera "Die Favoritin" is produced (Paris) |
| Special : | 02/11/1840 | Opera "La Fille du Regiment" is produced (Paris) |
| Special : | 01/10/1840 | Penny Post mail system started |
| Special : | 01/05/1840 | Records show 95,820 licensed public houses in England on this date |
| Special : | 05/07/1840 | Tornado strikes Natchez Miss, kills 317 |
| Special : | 02/06/1840 | Waitangi Day; treaty signed between Britain & Maoris of New Zealand |
| Special : | 12/02/1840 | William H Harrison elected president of US |
GREGSITE Disclaimer
