Page 5: Historical Events In 1840

Oct 05   On this day in history fran Gerbic, composer   

Oct 07   On this day in history willem I resigns as king of Netherlands   

Oct 08   1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed in the year 1840.   

Oct 08   In the year 1840 first Hawaiian constitution proclaimed   

Oct 12   In the year 1840 helena Modjeska, Poland, Shakespearian actress (Juliet)/anti-Russian   

Oct 14   On this day in history maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta.   

Oct 30   In the year 1840 carlotta Patti, Italian soprano   

Nov 12   On this day in history auguste Rodin, France, sculptor (Kiss, Thinker)   

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

Nov 14   On this day in history claude Monet, France, impressionist (Water Lilies)   

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   In the year 1840 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   On this day in history aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet/friend of Tsjaikovski [OS=11/15]   

Dec 01   Plague in Dalmatia in the year 1840.   

Dec 01   Smallpox in South Africa in the year 1840.   

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

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

Dec 07   In the year 1840 hermann Goetz, composer   

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) in the year 1840.   

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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   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   Ernst Rudorff, composer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 21   Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, pioneer English woman physician was born in the year 1840.   

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

Jan 23   In the year 1840 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   Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752) died in the year 1840.   

Mar 02   On this day in history 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 in the year 1840.   

Apr 19   In the year 1840 death of jean-Jacques Lartigue, Roman catholic bishop of Montreal (b. 1777)