1840 Calendar
A year scroll with Latin text from โ€œThe Extremes of Good and Evilโ€ by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

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Historical Event(s)

– The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
– Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States.
– Jules Dumont d'Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica.
– Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
– Gaetano Donizetti’s opera La Fille du Régiment receives its first performance in Paris.
– The Baltimore College of Dental Surgery opens, the first dental school.
– Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
– Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi’s Un giorno di regno at La Scala of Milan.
– Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
– The Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British Army and then is sent into exile on the islands of Malta.

Who Were Born On ?

– John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (d. 1921)
– Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (d. 1892)
– Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (d. 1931)
– Émile Zola, French novelist and critic (d. 1902)
– Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (d. 1893)
– Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish merchant (d. 1900)
– Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1904)
– Thomas Nast, German-born American political cartoonist (d. 1902)
– Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905)
– Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)