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•  January 13, 1840 – The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
•  January 19, 1840 – Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States.
•  February 10, 1840 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
•  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 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.
•  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.

•  January 18, 1840 – Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (d. 1921)
•  February 28, 1840 – Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (d. 1892)
•  March 16, 1840 – Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (d. 1931)
•  March 18, 1840 – William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (d. 1901)
•  March 28, 1840 – Emin Pasha, Equatorian politician (d. 1892)
•  May 12, 1840 – Alejandro Gorostiaga, Chilean military, participated on Battle of Huamachuco (d. 1912)
•  May 13, 1840 – Alphonse Daudet, French novelist (d. 1897)
•  October 12, 1840 – Helena Modjeska, Polish actress (d. 1909)
•  October 15, 1840 – Honoré Mercier, politician and premier of Quebec (d. 1894)
•  November 21, 1840 – Victoria, Princess Royal of Great Britain and German Empress (d. 1901)