* 1840 – The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

( 1973 ) Segregated Sabbaths: Richard Allen and the Rise of Independent Black Churches, 1760 – 1840, New York: Oxford University Press, LCCN 73076908

The first adhesive postage stamp, commonly referred to as the Penny Black, was issued in the United Kingdom in 1840.

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

The first of them is Penny Black, issued by the United Kingdom on May 1, 1840.

First day cover of the world's first postage stamp, the Penny Black, used on May 6, 1840 is verified by the datestamp on the backflap

The first adhesive postage stamp was the Penny Black, issued in 1840 by Great Britain.

After the discovery of coal – lovingly known as " Black Gold " – in the Ruhr area in 1840, and the subsequent industrialization, the Cologne – Minden Railway and the Gelsenkirchen Main Railway Station were opened.

* The 1840 Penny Black at the American National Postal Museum

These were followed by the Mulready stationery that was issued by Great Britain at the same time as the Penny Black in 1840.

Messrs. Perkins, Bacon & Co was a printer of books, bank notes and postage stamps, most notable for printing the Penny Black, the world's first adhesive postage stamps, in 1840.

The colour was changed from black to red because of difficulty in seeing a cancellation mark on the Penny Black ; a black cancel was readily visible on a Penny Red .< ref name =" 1840 2d and 1841 2d a plating aid "> </ span ></ font ></ ref >

* Joseph M. Street ( 1782 – 1840 ), U. S. Army officer and U. S. Indian agent to the Winnebago, Sauk, and Fox tribes after the Black Hawk War

* Pre-adhesive mail also called pre-stamp mail is mail used before the issuance of the Penny Black and Two pence Blue stamps on 6 May 1840 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and in other countries, mail used prior to the postal authority adopting their own adhesive labels.

* 1840 1 May-United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland issues the Penny Black and Two pence blue, world's first postage stamps.

* 1840 6 May-The Penny Black and Two pence blue, world's first postage stamps becomes valid for the pre-payment of postage.

* 1840: First adhesive stamp ( the Penny Black ).

On 10 January 1840, the Uniform Penny Post was established throughout the UK, facilitating the safe, speedy and cheap conveyance of letters, and from 6 May could be prepaid with the first postage stamp, known as the Penny Black.

It is from a series of proof impressions which were made at the time Rowland Hill was looking at the new colours which were to be used for the stamps which were to replace the Penny Black and the original 1840 issue of the Two pence Blue.

Edward Stanley Gibbons was born at his father William Gibbons ' chemist shop at 15 Treville Street, Plymouth on 21 June 1840, interestingly on the same year that Britain issued the Penny Black, which was the world's first postage stamp.

Prior to the introduction to the world's first postage stamps in Britain in 1840 (" Penny Black ") and 1841 (" Penny Red "), pre-paid franking was applied exclusively by a manuscript or handstamped " Paid " marking and the amount of the fee collected.

In 1840, Mulready designed the illustrations for the postal stationery, known as Mulready stationery were introduced by the royal Mail at the same time as the Penny Black in May 1840, They were issued in two forms ; one variant was precut to a diamond or lozenge shape and folded to form an envelope that could be held together by seal at the apex of the topmost flap ; and lettersheets that were cut in rectangles, folded over and sealed or tucked in.

The world's first adhesive postage stamp was the Penny Black of Great Britain, which went on sale on May 1, 1840 and became valid for postage on May 6, 1840.

To the east, the boundaries of the ocean proper are Europe ; the Strait of Gibraltar ( where it connects with the Mediterranean Sea – one of its marginal seas – and, in turn, the Black Sea, both of which also touch upon Asia ) and Africa.

The dense Mediterranean water sinks below the Black Sea inflow to a depth of, then flows through the Dardanelles Strait and into the Sea of Marmara at velocities of 5 – 15 cm / s.

* 1965 – Frank Black, American singer-songwriter ( Pixies, Frank Black and the Catholics, and Grand Duchy )

* 1970 – Roy Mayorga, American drummer ( Stone Sour, Soulfly, Amebix, Black President, and Nausea )

* 1921 – Black Friday: mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England.

* 1963 – The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.

* 1966 – The Church of Satan is established at the Black House in San Francisco, California.

* 1832 – Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk tribe of Native Americans, surrenders to U. S. authorities, ending the Black Hawk War.

* 1921 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.

* 1728 – Joseph Black, Scottish chemist ( d. 1799 )

* 1950 – Tommy Aldridge, American drummer ( Black Oak Arkansas and Thin Lizzy )

* 1970 – Killah Priest, American rapper, producer, and actor ( The HRSMN, Sunz of Man, and Black Market Militia )

* 1971 – Michael Ian Black, American comedian, actor, writer, and director

* 1991 – Crown Heights riot: Black groups target Hasidic Jews on the streets of Crown Heights in New York, New York during 3 days, after 2 black kids were struck by a car driven by a Hasidic man.

* 1951 – Glenn Hughes, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer ( Finders Keepers, Trapeze, Deep Purple, and Black Country Communion )

* 1944 – Conrad Black, Canadian publisher, historian, and author

* 1966 – Derek Sherinian, American keyboard player, composer, and producer ( Planet X, Dream Theater, and Black Country Communion )

" The Transubstantiation of a Poor White ", in Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward the History of the Part Which Black People Have Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860 – 1880 ( 1935 ).

* 1858 – The Round Oak rail accident occurs in Brierley Hill in the Black Country, England.

* 1962 – Shaun Ryder, English singer-songwriter and actor ( Happy Mondays and Black Grape )

* 1986 – The Soviet passenger liner sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423.