* 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 ).

* 1840 – Frederick Wicks, English author and inventor ( d. 1910 )

From around 1810 to 1840, the best-known Shakespearean performances in the United States were tours by leading London actors — including George Frederick Cooke, Junius Brutus Booth, Edmund Kean, William Charles Macready, and Charles Kemble.

* Frederick William III ( 1797 – 1840 ) ( son of )

* Frederick William IV ( 1840 – 1861 ) ( son of )

* August 3 – King Frederick William III of Prussia ( d. 1840 )

After his abdication in 1840 he named himself King William Frederick, Count of Nassau.

In 1840, through the efforts of friends such as Bettina von Armin and von Savigny, who appealed to Frederick William IV of Prussia on behalf of the brothers, they were offered posts at the University of Berlin.

In 1840 Alexander von Humboldt accompanied Prussian King Frederick William IV on the way to Königsberg, and Humboldt received an honorary membership in the Society.

Upon the accession of the crown prince Frederick William IV in June 1840, Humboldt's favour at court increased.

Only after the death of Frederick William III in 1840 was he reinstated in his professorship.

The Rhein University was thus nameless until 1840, when the new King of Prussia, Frederick William IV gave it the official name Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität.

* Frederick William III of Prussia ( 1770 – 1840 ), King of Prussia

In 1840 German poetry took a more directly political turn when the new Frederick William IV ascended the Prussian throne.

Here he remained until 1840, encountering many difficulties, due both to the distrust of those within the congregation who suspected the piety of a rabbi able to speak grammatical German, and who was a graduate of a German university, and to the peculiar legislation which in Prussia under Frederick William III regulated the status of the Jewish congregations.

His father was the eldest son and heir of King George I of Greece ( 1845 – 1913 ) and his wife Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia ( 1851 – 1926 ); his mother was the daughter of Emperor Frederick III of Germany ( 1831 – 1888 ) and his wife Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom ( 1840 – 1901 ).

The radicalization and politicization of the movement occurred when the new king, upon whom the Young Hegelians had pinned their hopes of political reform, Frederick William IV, came to power in 1840 and curtailed political freedom and religious tolerance more than before.

* Poor Jack, novel by Frederick Marryat, 1840.

The accession to the throne of Prussia of Frederick William IV, on 7 June 1840, made a great change in Bunsen's career.

Frederick William IV ( 1840 – 1861 ) managed to suppress the revolution.

* Prussia: Frederick William III ( 1797 – 1840 )

During the previous seven years the popular taste had had turned toward the " service novel ", examples of which are Frank Mildmay ( 1829 ) by Frederick Marryat, Tom Cringle's Log ( 1895 ) by Michael Scott, The Subaltern ( 1825 ) by George Robert Gleig, Cyril Thornton ( 1827 ) by Thomas Hamilton, Stories of Waterloo ( 1833 ) by William Hamilton Maxwell, Ben Brace ( 1840 ) by Frederick Chamier and The Bivouac ( 1837 ), also by Maxwell.

* Lady Constance Villiers ( 1840 – 1922 ), married Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby.