Historical Events In 1840

Jan 01   On this day in history 1st recorded bowling match in US, Knickerbocker Alleys, NYC   

Jan 03   On this day in history 1st deep sea sounding   

Jan 03   On this day in history father Joseph Damien de Veuster, Belgium, helped lepers in Hawaii   

Jan 03   On this day in history the first deep sea sounding is recorded   

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   On this day in history penny Post mail system is starts   

Jan 10   Penny Post mail system started in the year 1840.   

Jan 13   The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives in the year 1840.   

Jan 18   Austin Dobson, England, poet/critic/biographer in the year 1840.   

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

Jan 18   Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, first US electrical journal, appears on this day in history.   

Jan 19   Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (US claim) on this day in history.   

Jan 19   LT Charles Wilkes, USN is first American to discover Antarctic coast on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history dutch King Willem II crowned   

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

Jan 22   In the year 1840 british colonists reach New Zealand.   

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

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   On this day in history the first U.S. college of Dentistry is chartered in Baltimore, MD.   

Feb 02   On this day in history louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer   

Feb 05   Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle) on this day in history.   

Feb 05   On this day in history the birth of John Dunlop, Scottish inventor of pneumatic bicycle tire   

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 in the year 1840.   

Feb 10   In the year 1840 british queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert von Saksen-Coburg   

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

Feb 11   In the year 1840 gaetano Donizetti's Opera "La Fille du Regiment," premieres in Paris   

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 on this day in history.   

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Jan 03   Father Joseph Damien de Veuster, Belgium, helped lepers in Hawaii was born in the year 1840.   

Jan 05   In the year 1840 birth of john Doby Kennedy, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896   

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

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

Jan 18   Ernst Rudorff, composer was born in the year 1840.   

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

Jan 22   On this day in history 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   On this day in history death of fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (b. 1752)   

Jan 22   In the year 1840 death of johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752)   

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

Mar 12   Friedrich Westenholz, composer, dies at 61 in the year 1840.   

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.