* 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 ).

The German Karl Adolph von Basedow also independently reported the same constellation of symptoms in 1840, while earlier reports of the disease were also published by the Italians Giuseppe Flajani and Antonio Giuseppe Testa, in 1802 and 1810 respectively, and by the English physician Caleb Hillier Parry ( a friend of Edward Jenner ) in the late 18th century.

* 1840: Un giorno di regno by Giuseppe Verdi

While there he notably sang leading roles in the world premieres of the first two operas composed by Giuseppe Verdi, portraying Riccardo in Oberto on 17 November 1839 and Edoardo in Un giorno di regno on 5 September 1840.

** Giuseppe Verdi, Un giorno di regno ( 1840 )

" The Malta Export Brewery " was created when the first privately-owned Maltese bank, established in 1840 by Giuseppe Scicluna, took over one of their client's operations in 1928.

Written between 1838 and 1840, Un giorno di regno was Verdi's first attempt at comic opera.

* Un giorno di regno, 5 September 1840

Other La Scala highlights included an appearance in the original production of Federico Ricci's Un duello sotto Richelieu ( 1839 ) and the role of Tonio in the house premiere of Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment ( 1840 ).

* A Prince of Bohemia ( Un prince de la Bohème, 1844 ; first published as les Fantaisies de Claudine, 1840 )

His best-known works are the operas L ' elisir d ' amore ( 1832 ), Lucia di Lammermoor ( 1835 ), and Don Pasquale ( 1843 ), all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment ( both from 1840 ).

Serious attempts at scholary study made steady progress over the 19th century starting with the founding of the Instituto di Corrispondenza in Rome in 1828 ( later the German Archaeological Institute ), followed by Eduard Gerhard's pioneering study Auserlesene Griechische Vasenbilder ( 1840 to 1858 ), the establishment of the journal Archaeologische Zeitung in 1843 and the Ecole d ' Athens 1846.

The collected Opere di Raimondo Montecuccoli were published at Milan ( 1807 ), Turin ( 1821 ) and Venice ( 1840 ), and include political essays and poetry.

At the point where they ended, another settlement grew up around a chapel built at the boat landing by Father Lucian Galtier in 1840.

While population at Fort Garry increased rapidly, from 2,417 in 1831 to 4,369 in 1840, economic opportunities did not increase at a similar rate.

Between 1840 and 1844, Anne spent around five weeks each summer at the resort, and loved the place.

On 15 December 1840, brought back to France from Saint Helena, Napoleon's remains passed under it on their way to the Emperor's final resting place at the Invalides.

Aegean vases have been exhibited both at Sèvres and Neuchatel since about 1840, the provenance ( i. e. source or origin ) being in the one case Phylakope in Melos, in the other Cephalonia.

However, Mrs. Gaugain, in her 1840 The Lady's Assistant for Executing Useful and Fancy Designs in Knitting, Netting, and Crotchet Work, refers to " Tambour, or Crotchet ," then proceeds to call it " tambour " in all the instructions, indicating a strong connection believed in at the time of crochet's beginning, and that it was, perhaps, the older name.

Charles Lyell at the British Association meeting in Glasgow 1840.

His play, Money ( 1840 ), was first produced at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London, on 8 December 1840.

He was elected governor at age 23 as a member of the Democratic Party in 1835 and served until 1840.

It failed but in August 1840, Prince Louis Napoleon tried another coup at Boulogne with hired soldiers.

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After his first painting, a portrait, was accepted at the Salon of 1840, Millet returned to Cherbourg to begin a career as a portrait painter.

He attended the last mountain man rendezvous, held in the summer of 1840 ( again at Ft. Bridger near the Green River ) and moved on to Bent's Fort, finding employment as a hunter.

He earned his bachelor of arts degree ( 1840 ) and bachelor of science degree ( 1842 ) at the École Normale Supérieure.

The largest of these posts was founded in 1840 at Nkhotakota by an Arabic trader from the coast, Jumbe Salim Bin Abdalla.

Accordingly, the two colonies were merged into the Province of Canada by the Act of Union 1840, with the capital at Kingston, and Upper Canada becoming known as Canada West.

Ruling from 1814 until his death in 1840, Francia succeeded almost single-handedly in building a strong, prosperous, secure, and independent nation at a time when Paraguay's continued existence as a distinct country seemed unlikely.

The foundation stone was laid in 1840 ; the Lords Chamber was completed in 1847, and the Commons Chamber in 1852 ( at which point Barry received a knighthood ).

Between 1840 and 1849, 15, 076 freed slaves, known as " Liberated Africans " were landed at Rupert's Bay on the island, of which number over 5, 000 were dead or died there.

This party instituted an elementary form of government, and in 1840 entered into a loose confederation with the Natalia Republic Boer, and also with the Voortrekkers south of the Vaal, whose headquarters were at Winburg.

Even free blacks in more distant states were at risk, and the New York legislature passed a law in 1840 to protect its African-American residents and try to recover any who were kidnapped.

The tradition of a white wedding is commonly credited to Queen Victoria's choice to wear a white wedding dress at her wedding to Prince Albert in 1840.