* 1792 – John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, English statesman ( d. 1840 )

* 1840 – Laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.

* 1770 – Frederick William III of Prussia ( d. 1840 )

* 1840 – John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician ( d. 1929 )

* 1840 – Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychologist ( d. 1902 )

* 1840 – Ferdinand Hamer, Dutch missionary and bishop ( d. 1900 )

* 1840 – Émile Zola, French novelist and critic ( d. 1902 )

* 1840 – Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish pharmacist and businessman, founded Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club ( d. 1900 )

* 1798 – Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician ( d. 1840 )

Archery, romance and elite culture in England and Wales, c. 1780 – 1840, 89, 193 – 208.

François-Auguste-René Rodin ( 12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917 ), known as Auguste Rodin ( ; ), was a French sculptor.

* 1840 – Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.

It is named after Ernst Abbe ( 1840 – 1905 ), the German physicist who defined it.

# Lucien Bonaparte ( 1775 – 1840 )

#*** Bathilde Aloïse Léonie Bonaparte ( 1840 – 1861 )

* 12 June 1814 – 3 October 1814 José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia y Velasco ( 2nd time ); he stayed on as " supreme dictator " 3 October 1814 – 20 September 1840 ( from 6 June 1816 styled " perpetual supreme dictator ")

Soldiers of the Dragon: Chinese Armies 1500 BC – AD 1840.

* George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough ( 1766 – 1840 ), elder son of the 4th Duke

* 1888 – Namık Kemal, Turkish poet ( b. 1840 )

* 1914 – Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian ( b. 1840 )

The Shihab leadership continued until the middle of the 19th century and culminated in the illustrious governorship of Amir Bashir Shihab II ( 1788 – 1840 ) who, after Fakhr-al-Din, was the most powerful feudal lord Lebanon produced.

The Maronite-Druze conflict in 1840 – 60 was an outgrowth of the Maronite Christian independence movement, directed against the Druze, Druze feudalism, and the Ottoman-Turks.

: Minorities in the Middle East: Druze Communities 1840 – 1974, 4 volumes, Slough: Archive Editions ( 2006 ).

In January 1858 Symonds received a letter from his friend Alfred Pretor ( 1840 – 1908 ), telling of Pretor's affair with their headmaster, Charles John Vaughan.

He later was to accept Marie's even more humiliating marriage to Alfred Graf Neipperg in 1840.

* June 26 – Alfred Percy Sinnett, Theosophist author ( born 1840 )

Alfred Thayer Mahan ( September 27, 1840 – December 1, 1914 ) was a United States Navy flag officer, geostrategist, and historian, who has been called " the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century.

Moxon continued to publish: in 1840 he published Robert Browning's Sordello, and in succeeding years works by Richard Monckton Milnes, Tom Hood, Barry Cornwall, Lord Lytton, Browning and Alfred Tennyson appeared.

** Alfred O. P. Nicholson ( D ), from December 25, 1840

Around 1830, Planche was introduced by the famous writer Alfred de Vigny to François Buloz, director of the Revue des deux mondes, and contributed to this journal until 1840.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson ( 1809 – 1892 ) lived at Beech Hill House, High Beach 1837 – 1840 where he wrote parts of his magnum opus " In Memoriam ".

The first production of Bulwer's Money took place under the artistic direction of Count d ' Orsay on 8 December 1840, Macready winning unmistakable success in the character of Alfred Evelyn.

Swann's great-grandfather, Alfred Trout Swan, a draper from Lincolnshire, emigrated to Russia in 1840 and married the daughter of the horologer to the Tsars.

Edward Drinker Cope was born on July 28, 1840, the eldest son of Alfred and Hanna Cope.

* de Tocqueville, Alexis ( 1835, 1840 ), Democracy in America: the Henry Reeve text as revised by Francis Bowen, now further corrected and edited with introduction, editorial notes, and bibliography by Phillips Bradley, ( Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, 1945 ), Chapter V: Spirit of the townships of New England.

Dr. John Alfred Brashear ( November 24, 1840 – April 8, 1920 ) was an American astronomer and instrument builder.

The first mention of Maitreya in a Theosophical context occurs in the 1883 work Esoteric Buddhism by Alfred Percy Sinnett ( 1840 – 1921 ), an early Theosophical writer.

Alfred Percy Sinnett ( 18 January 1840, London-26 June 1921 ) was an English author and Theosophist.

Alfred Henry Scott ( c. 1840 – 28 May 1872 ) was a bartender and clerk at the Red River Colony community of Saint Boniface, Manitoba, and was noted for having been selected as a delegate to represent the provisional government of Louis Riel in negotiations with the Government of Canada during the Red River Rebellion of 1869 – 1870.

Alfred James Reach ( May 25, 1840 – January 14, 1928 ) was an Anglo-American sportsman who, after becoming one of the early stars of baseball in the National Association, went on to become an influential executive, publisher, sporting goods manufacturer and spokesman for the sport.

He also rendered good service to historians by the publication of his Collection des meilleures dissertations, notices et traités relatés de l ' histoire de France ( 20 vols., 1826 – 1840 ); in the absence of an index, since Leber did not leave one, an analytical table of contents is to be found in Alfred Franklin's Sources de l ' histoire de France ( 1876, pp. 342 sqq .).