Page 5: Historical Events In 1840

Oct 05   On this day in history fran Gerbic, composer   

Oct 07   Willem I resigns as king of Netherlands in the year 1840.   

Oct 08   In the year 1840 1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed   

Oct 08   First Hawaiian constitution proclaimed on this day in history.   

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

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

Oct 30   Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano on this day in history.   

Nov 12   Auguste Rodin, France, sculptor (Kiss, Thinker) in the year 1840.   

Nov 12   The birth of Auguste Rodin, French sculptor in the year 1840.   

Nov 14   In the year 1840 claude Monet, France, impressionist (Water Lilies)   

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

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

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

Nov 21   In the year 1840 victoria, Empress of Germany/Queen of Prussia   

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   Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet/friend of Tsjaikovski [OS=11/15] on this day in history.   

Dec 01   Plague in Dalmatia in the year 1840.   

Dec 01   In the year 1840 smallpox in South Africa   

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

Dec 02   On this day in history the opera "Die Favoritin" is produced (Paris)   

Dec 07   Hermann Goetz, composer on this day in history.   

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   Mehmed N Kemal, Turkish journalist (Vatan) on this day in history.   

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

Jan 05   John Doby Kennedy, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 was born on this day in history.   

Jan 10   Louis Nazaire Bégin, French Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d. 1925) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 18   In the year 1840 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 on this day in history.   

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   Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752) died in the year 1840.   

Mar 02   Heinrich Olbers, German astronomer (comets & asteroids), dies at 81 on this day in history.   

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

Mar 22   Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (b. 1798) died on this day in history.   

Mar 28   On this day in history 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.