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1840 Historical Event(s)
March 6, 1840
– The Baltimore College of Dental Surgery opens, the first dental school.
April 27, 1840
– Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.
May 6, 1840
– The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
May 7, 1840
– The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.
May 22, 1840
– The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
June 20, 1840
– Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
July 23, 1840
– The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
August 1, 1840
– Labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
September 5, 1840
– Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi’s Un giorno di regno at La Scala of Milan.
October 7, 1840
– Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
Who Were Born On 1840?
January 3, 1840
– Father Damien, Flemish missionary (d. 1889)
February 23, 1840
– Frederick Wicks, English author and inventor (d. 1910)
February 29, 1840
– John Philip Holland, Irish inventor (d. 1914)
March 18, 1840
– William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (d. 1901)
March 20, 1840
– Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (d. 1894)
June 3, 1840
– Michael O'Laughlen, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1867)
June 10, 1840
– Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (d. 1920)
September 21, 1840
– Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1904)
October 9, 1840
– Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905)
November 9, 1840
– Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, French Canadian lawyer (d. 1898)