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* 1840 – Hiram Stevens Maxim, American inventor ( Maxim gun ) ( d. 1916 )
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* 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 ).
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* November 24 – Hiram Stevens Maxim, American firearms inventor ( b. 1840 )
Pioneer doctor and abolitionist Dr. Hiram Rutherford moved to Oakland in 1840 to start his practice in the young town.
It is the birthplace of Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim ( 1840 – 1916 ) and Sir Harry Oakes, 1st Baronet ( December 23, 1874 – July 7, 1943 ).
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim ( February 5, 1840 – November 24, 1916 ) was an American-born inventor who emigrated to the United Kingdom at the age of forty-one, although he remained an American citizen until he became a naturalized British subject in 1900.
* Hiram Pratt ( 1800 – 1840 ), American politician from Buffalo, New York
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George Stevens, who lent his name to Stevens Point, a city south of Wausau, began processing the pine forests into lumber in 1840.
They had a daughter, Mary Picton Stevens ( May 19, 1840 –
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Maxim was born in Sangerville, Maine in the United States in 1840.
* November 24-Hiram Maxim ( born 1840 ), inventor of the machine gun.
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Its people, including Pierre Bottineau and other American Fur Company employees and the refugees from Fort Garry, were joined by the remaining Scots and Swiss from Fort Snelling when Major Joseph Plympton expelled them from the reservation in May 1840.
In the decades of 1840 and 1850 Honduras participated in several failed attempts to restore Central American unity, such as the Confederation of Central America ( 1842 – 1845 ), the covenant of Guatemala ( 1842 ), the Diet of Sonsonate ( 1846 ), the Diet of Nacaome ( 1847 ) and National Representation in Central America ( 1849 – 1852 ).
* John D. Ford ( 1840 – 1918 ), American naval officer who served as ship engineer during Civil War and as commander in Spanish-American War
* John Russell Young ( 1840 – 1899 ), American writer, diplomat & Librarian of Congress
* 1840 – Michael O ' Laughlen, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln ( d. 1867 )
* 1840 – Myles Keogh, American soldier of fortune ( d. 1876 )
4, The Methodists, 1783 – 1840: A Collection of Source Materials, New York: H. Holt & Co., – 800 p. of documents regarding the American frontier
* 1840 – Eliza Pollock, American archer ( d. 1919 )
OCLC 56818195 The Hand of a Woman: Four Holiness-Pentecostal Evangelists and American Culture, 1840 – 1930.
* 1904 – Chief Joseph, American tribal leader ( b. 1840 )
* 1867 – Michael O ' Laughlen, American conspirator ( b. 1840 )
* 1840 – Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian ( d. 1914 )
* 1758 – Hannah Webster Foster, American author ( d. 1840 )
* 1840 – Galen Spencer, American archer ( d. 1904 )
Thomas Nast ( September 27, 1840 – December 7, 1902 ) was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist who is considered to be the " Father of the American Cartoon ".
The first known overnight stay on Whidbey Island by a non-native American was made on 26 May 1840 by a Catholic missionary during travel across Puget Sound.
* May 2 – George Fisher Baker, American financier and philanthropist ( b. 1840 )
** William T. Sampson, American admiral ( b. 1840 )
** John Brashear, American astronomer ( b. 1840 )
* June 20 – Moses Waddel, American educator / minister and bestselling author ( d. 1840 )
Britain was motivated by the desire to forestall other European powers ( France established a very small settlement at Akaroa in the South Island later in 1840 ), to facilitate settlement by British subjects and, possibly, to end the lawlessness of European ( predominantly British and American ) whalers, sealers and traders.
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