* 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 Queen Regent, who resisted any such idea, preferred to resign and let Espartero become regent instead in 1840.

The first postage stamp, the Penny Black, was issued by Britain in 1840 and pictured a young Queen Victoria.

; 1840: Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield.

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.

The Faculty of Engineering was formally established in 1923, although engineering had been taught at the University since 1840 when Queen Victoria founded the UK's first Chair of Engineering.

******* HI & RM The Princess Victoria, Princess Royal, German Empress, Queen of Prussia ( 1840 – 1901 )

In 1840, Leopold arranged the marriage of his niece, Queen Victoria, the daughter of his sister, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, to his nephew, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, son of his brother, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort | Prince Albert possibly recreating a wedding pose from their 1840 wedding for the newly developed art form of photography.

In November 1840 a royal charter was signed by Queen Victoria, establishing New Zealand as a Crown colony separate from New South Wales from May 1841.

The property was leased for three years from 1840 by Queen Adelaide, the widow of William IV of the United Kingdom.

* Sir John Williams, 1st Baronet, of the City of London ( 1840 – 1926 ), physician to Queen Victoria

In 1840, Queen Victoria gave the society her blessing, and it became the RSPCA.

This Society later became the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, being designated " Royal " by Queen Victoria in 1840.

Near the end of 1840 the Port Nicholson settlers sent a petition to Queen Victoria calling for Hobson's dismissal over his treatment of them.

In November 1840 the Queen signed a royal charter for New Zealand to become a Crown colony separate from New South Wales.

None of the 2, 600 entries were good enough, so Hill launched the service in 1840 with an envelope bearing a reproduction of a design created by the artist William Mulready and a stamp bearing a representation of the profile of the reigning British monarch, Queen Victoria.

On 7 October 1840, on the abdication of her father-in-law, William I of the Netherlands, she became Queen Consort of the Netherlands.

* Her Majesty Queen Anna of the Netherlands, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Duchess of Limburg ( 1840 – 1849 )

In 1840, the regiment was named after Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's consort, who later became the regiment's Colonel.

* Victoria, Princess Royal, the eldest child of Queen Victoria was heiress presumptive of the United Kingdom from her birth in November 1840 to the birth of her younger brother, the future Edward VII, in November 1841.

Victoria, Princess Royal ( Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa ; 21 November 1840 – 5 August 1901 ) was the eldest child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert.

* Victoria, Princess Royal ( 1840 – 1901 ), eldest daughter of Queen Victoria, married German Emperor, King of Prussia

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, at a time when white was associated with purity and conspicuous consumption ( because it was difficult to keep clean, and thus could not be worn by servants or laborers ), and when it was the color required of girls being presented to the royal court.

As a legitimate male-line descendant of George III, he remained a member of the British Royal Family, and second in line to the British throne, until the birth of Queen Victoria's first child, Victoria, Princess Royal, in 1840.