* 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 ).

* Simeon H. Anderson ( 1802 – 1840 ) was a United States Representative from Kentucky.

* Simeon H. Anderson ( 1802 – 1840 ) was a United States Representative from Kentucky.

Simeon H. Anderson ( W ), until August 11, 1840

San Simeon is located on the Rancho Piedra Blanca Mexican land grant given in 1840 to José de Jesús Pico.

* Simeon Eben Baldwin ( 1840 – 1927 )— Governor of Connecticut

Simeon Eben Baldwin ( February 5, 1840 – January 30, 1927 ), jurist, law professor and the 65th Governor of Connecticut, was the son of jurist, Connecticut governor and U. S. Senator Roger Sherman Baldwin and Emily Pitkin Perkins.

In 1809, Mr E Redmond was one of the first to settle here and Simeon Lord ( 1771 – 1840 ) was an important developer in the area who built a fulling mill in 1815.

* 1840-Albert Black ( 1840 – 1890 ) becomes customs officer and adopted grandson of merchant Simeon Lord famous in early Sydney.

* Simeon Solomon ( 1840 – 1905 ), painter

# Simeon Eben Baldwin ( 5 February 1840 – 30 January 1927 )

Simeon Solomon ( 9 October 1840 No. 3 Sandys Street, Bishopsgate, London, England – 14 August 1905 in St. Giles's Workhouse, Endell Street ) was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter

The land was sold to a wealthy merchant named Simeon Lord ( 1771 – 1840 ) in 1812, who called his land Lord's Bush.

The land was sold to a wealthy merchant named Simeon Lord ( 1771 – 1840 ) in 1812, who called his land Lord's Bush.

Marcus Peck ; 1825 – 1826, William F. Averill ; 1827 – 1833, Marcus Peck ; 1834, Peter F. Westervelt ; 1835 – 1837, John I. Vosburgh ; 1838 – 1839 ; John H. Gregory ; 1840, Calvin Sliter ; 1841, John H. Gregory ; 1842 – 1843, Solomon Coons ; 1844, Reuben A. Thomas ; 1845, S. V. R. Cole ; 1846, David Fonda ; 1847, David Luce ; 1848, Lorenzo M. Lown ; 1849 – 1850, William L. Stewart, jr .; 1851, Jacob Boyce ; 1852, W. H. Wicks ; 1853, Joseph Alden ; 1854, William H. Lyons ; 1855, Samuel D. Seymour ; 1856, Harmon Westfall ; 1857, George Sliter ; 1858, Albert H. Dutcher ; 1859 – 1861, George Sliter ; 1862, D. E. Barnes ; 1863, William H. Ford ; 1864, B. M. Wilkinson ; 1865, Jeffrey P. Thomas ; 1866 – 1867, David Horton ;

He wrote a successful novel, Greyslaer ( 1840 ), based on the murder of Colonel Solomon P. Sharp by Jereboam O. Beauchamp, known as the Beauchamp – Sharp Tragedy — an event that several writers, including Thomas Holley Chivers and William Gilmore Simms, also fictionalized.

Solomon " Sol " Star ( December 20, 1840 – October 10, 1917 ) was an early resident of the town of Deadwood, South Dakota.

Originally part of the estate of Solomon Rozelle, who had settled in Shelby County in 1815 on 1, 600 acres of then wooded wilderness, the land that became Central Gardens was inherited by Rozelle's children upon his death in 1840, according to historian Barbara B. Viser.

The defeat by the British Empire in the First Opium War ( 1840 ) led to the Treaty of Nanjing ( 1842 ), under which Hong Kong was ceded and opium import was legitimized.

Charles Lyell at the British Association meeting in Glasgow 1840.

Eventually, vaccination was accepted, and in 1840 the British government banned variolationthe use of smallpoxand provided vaccinationusing cowpoxfree of charge.

* 1840 – Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.

Spanish authors from 1840 have usually favoured theory ( b ) while British ones have supported ( c ).

It was on the islet of Stac an Armin, St Kilda, Scotland, in July 1840, that the last Great Auk seen in the British Isles was caught and killed.

By 1840, to protect the interests of the various nationals doing business in Zanzibar, consul offices had been opened by the British, French, Germans and Americans.

* 1840 – The transportation of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.

From the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 until 1844 small detachments of British Imperial troops based in New Zealand were the only military.

After the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 New Zealand's security was dependant on British Imperial Troops deployed from Australia and other parts of the empire.

* 1840 – The Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British Army and then is sent into exile on the islands of Malta.

The Act of Union 1840, passed July 23, 1840, by the British parliament and proclaimed by the Crown on February 10, 1841, merged the two colonies by abolishing the parliaments of Upper and Lower Canada and replacing them with a single one.

In 1840 the British Government deployed a naval station to suppress the African slave trade.

It was also in 1840 that the British government acceded to a French request for Napoleon ’ s body to be returned to France in what became known as the retour des cendres.

Dingane ruled for some twelve years, during which time he fought, disastrously, against the Voortrekkers, and against another half-brother Mpande, who with Boer and British support, took over the Zulu leadership in 1840, and ruled for some 30 years.

; 1840: New Zealand becomes a British colony, through the Treaty of Waitangi.

* September 16 – Edward Whymper, British explorer ( b. 1840 )

* March 2 – Sir Edward Hobart Seymour, British admiral ( b. 1840 )

* June 21 – Sidney Smith, British admiral ( d. 1840 )

The leading British genre painter, Sir David Wilkie was 55 when he travelled to Istanbul and Jerusalem in 1840, dying off Gibraltar during the return voyage.

In 1840 the Treaty of Waitangi was signed between the British Crown and various Māori chiefs, bringing New Zealand into the British Empire and giving Māori equal rights with British citizens.