In 1840 the Museum became involved in its first overseas excavations, Charles Fellows's expedition to Xanthos, in Asia Minor, whence came remains of the tombs of the rulers of ancient Lycia, among them the Nereid and Payava monuments.

Hanapepe was one of the locations visited by the United States Exploring Expedition under Charles Wilkes ; the expedition arrived in Hawaii in late September, 1840, and spent some time in the islands.

The Texas Congress refused to fund the expedition in 1839 and 1840.

They had five children: Meriwether Lewis Clark, Sr. ( 1809 – 1881 ), named after his friend and expedition partner ; William Preston Clark ( 1811 – 1840 ); Mary Margaret Clark ( 1814 – 1821 ); George Rogers Hancock Clark ( 1816 – 1858 ), named after Clark's older brother ; and John Julius Clark ( 1818 – 1831 ), named after his oldest brother Jonathan and Clark's wife.

Angus McMillan led the first European expedition through the area between 1839 and 1840, naming the area " Caledonia Australis ".

This was followed in March 1840 by Polish explorer Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, who unknowingly led his expedition across the same terrain already encountered by McMillan, renaming many natural landmarks and places.

After taking part in several engagements against the British, he joined in 1800, along with his brother ( Louis-Henri de Freycinet ( 1777 – 1840 ), who afterwards rose to the rank of admiral ), an expedition to explore the south and south-west coasts of Australia.

Departing from Hampton Roads on August 18, 1838, the expedition stopped at the Madeira Islands and Rio de Janeiro ; visited Tierra del Fuego, Chile, Peru, the Tuamotu Archipelago, Samoa, and New South Wales ; from Sydney, Australia sailed into the Antarctic Ocean in December 1839 and reported the discovery " of an Antarctic continent west of the Balleny Islands " of which it sighted the coast on January 25, 1840.

Next, the expedition visited Fiji and the Hawaiian Islands in 1840.

* 1840: Captain James Ross arrives with Antarctic expedition in HMS Erebus and HMS Terror

In January 1840 Andries Pretorius helped Mpande in his revolt against his half-brother Dingane, who was killed on an expedition north in the Hlatikhulu Forest.

It is named after explorer Jules Dumont d ' Urville since his expedition landed on Débarquement Rock in the Dumoulin Islands at the northeast end of the archipelogo on January 21, 1840.

In 1818 Say accompanied his friend William Maclure ( 1763 – 1840 ), president of the ANSP ( 1817 – 1840 ) and father of American geology ; Gerhard Troost, a geologist ; and other members of the Academy on a geological expedition to the off-shore islands of Georgia and Florida, then a Spanish colony.

Montholon had to spend many years in what is now Belgium, and in 1840 acted as " chief of staff " in the absurd " expedition " conducted by Louis Napoleon from London to Boulogne.

In 1840 when the expedition set sail for St. Helena to bring back Napoleon's body, he was too ill to go, but his son who had shared his captivity was able to go.

In the summer of 1840, Baer asked Middendorff to join his second expedition to Novaya Zemlya ( the first one took place in 1837 ).

This bird was first collected when a French expedition led by the explorer Jules Dumont d ' Urville on the ships L ' Astrolabe and La Zelee visited the Auckland Islands in 1840.

The leader of a further French scientific expedition to California, Eugène Duflot de Mofras, wrote in 1840 "… it is evident that California will belong to whatever nation chooses to send there a man-of-war and two hundred men.

In February 1840, some of the expedition were present at the initial signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand.

During a trading expedition in 1840, Work fell out of a tree, tearing open his abdomen and exposing his intestines.

Pucheran accompanied the expedition on the Astrolabe between 1837 and 1840, under the command of Jules Dumont d ' Urville, with fellow-naturalists Jacques Bernard Hombron and Honoré Jacquinot.

Jacquinot was the younger brother of the naval officer Charles Hector Jacquinot, and sailed with him as a naturalist on La Zelee on Dumont d ' Urville's Astrolabe expedition ( 1837 – 1840 ).

The first European to see the ranges was probably Edward Eyre on his 1840 expedition along the western side of the Flinders.

Rodin was born in 1840 into a working-class family in Paris, the second child of Marie Cheffer and Jean-Baptiste Rodin, who was a police department clerk.

The Entry of the Crusade rs into Constantinople, by Eugène Delacroix, 1840.

The opera, given in September 1840, was a flop and he fell into despair and vowed to give up musical composition forever.

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.

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

The method, which guarantees proportional representation, was introduced in 1840 by his son Rowland Hill into the public election for the Adelaide City Council.

Construction started in 1840 and lasted for thirty years, suffering great delays and cost overruns, as well as the death of both leading architects ; works for the interior decoration continued intermittently well into the twentieth century.

After peace talks in 1840 ended with the massacre of 34 Comanche leaders in San Antonio, the Comanches launched a major attack deep into Texas, known as the Great Raid of 1840.

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.

When the constitutional amendments were introduced in 1840, it was decided to split Holland once again, this time into two provinces called " South Holland " and " North Holland ".

New York state had passed a law in 1840 to recover African-American residents who had been kidnapped and sold into slavery.

The New York legislature had passed a law in 1840 requiring the state to recover any free blacks kidnapped and sold into slavery.

In 1840, the Armenian Oblast was dissolved and its territory incorporated into a larger new province ; the Georgia-Imeretia Governorate.

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.

Lower Canada, Upper Canada and their legislatures were abolished by the British Act of Union 1840 of July 23, 1840 ( which came into force in early 1841 ) and united as one political entity, the Province of Canada.

The act replaced the Act of Union ( 1840 ) which had previously unified Upper Canada and Lower Canada into the united Province of Canada.

Protected as a monument historique since 1840, the château was given into state ownership in 1938 and is now open to the public.

The school moved around 1840 to accommodate larger numbers of pupils into new buildings designed by Charles Barry ( junior ), son of Sir Charles Barry who designed Westminster Palace.

Starting around 1840, German Catholics began settling around New Offenburg and Zell, and shortly after German Lutherans began spreading into Ste.

These problems were exacerbated with the construction of St Katharine Docks ( 1827 ) and the central London railway termini ( 1840 – 1875 ) that caused the clearance of former slums and rookeries, with many of the displaced people moving into the area.

In 1840, in collaboration with Karl Ritter, he issued his first work, Atlas von Hellas und den hellenischen Kolonien, which brought him at once into eminence in the sphere of ancient historical cartography.

On 12 June 1840, a meteorite weighing approximately 720 grams fell into a field just outside Uden.