Josiah Gregg brought his Santa Fe caravan through in March 1840.

In search for an alternate route to California through Santa Fe, New Mexico, Josiah Gregg ( 1840 ), and Caprain Randolph B. Marcy ( 1845 ) surveyed trails that crossed Hemphill County, following the south bank of the Canadian River.

Edward Whymper was born in London, England on 27 April 1840 to Josiah Wood Whymper and Elizabeth Claridge.

Along with the founding committee, which included the Anglican Thomas Fowell Buxton, the Quaker William Allen, and the Congregationalist Josiah Conder, they organised the first World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840.

At first, half of the recruits were women but, in 1840, the proportion was reduced to a third of the number of men.

As the demand for beaver fur declined and the various regions of the American West became depleted of beaver due to over trapping, American fur trading companies folded ; however, individual mountain men continued to trap beaver in the region until about 1840.

In 1840, at Monmouth's Shire Hall, Chartist protesters John Frost, Zephaniah Williams and William Jones became the last men in Britain to be sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered after being found guilty of treason following riots in Newport that led to 20 deaths.

* 1840 Gonzales men join the Battle of Plum Creek against Buffalo Hump and his Comanches.

Eyre departed Fowlers Bay, South Australia on 17 November 1840 with John Baxter and a party of three Aboriginal men.

Slag wool was first made in 1840 in Wales by Edward Parry " but no effort appears to have been made to confine the wool after production ; consequently it floated about the works with the slightest breeze, and became so injurious to the men that the process had to be abandoned ".

However, since 1840, record life expectancy has risen linearly for men and women, albeit more slowly for men.

The population grew from 19 men, 5 women, and 30 children in 1800 to 4300 in 1840.

From 1840 to 1855 he wrote for The Times, his close touch with men like Guizot, Christian Bunsen, Lord Clarendon, and his own chief at the Privy Council Office, Charles Greville, enabling him to write with authority on foreign policy during the critical period from 1848 to the end of the Crimean War.

Approximately 3, 000 mountain men ranged the mountains between 1820 and 1840, the peak beaver-harvesting period.

From 1840 to 1842, based in Launceston, Tasmania ( then known as Van Diemen's Land ), Strzelecki explored nearly every part of the island, usually on foot with three men and two pack horses.

On April 4, 1840, seven men met at the Carlos City Exchange and enacted the Chamber of Commerce.

By 1847 the town had grown to a thousand persons served by the new church of St. George, built in 1840, the great majority of the men working in the copper mines with others employed in fishing and subsistence agriculture.

Voter turnout soared during the Second Party System, reaching about 80 percent of the adult white men by 1840.

From December 1840 to March 1841, he employed hundreds of native Hawaiian porters and many of his men to haul a pendulum to the summit of Mauna Loa to measure gravity.

When Moore died in 1840 he left his substantial estate to the Church of England with specific provision for the founding of a college to train young men in the principles of the United Church of England and Ireland.

While these writers were all more or less academic, and appealed to the cultured few, four poets of the people addressed a far wider public: Verdi ( 1779 – 1820 ), of Bordeaux, who wrote comic and satirical pieces ; Jean Reboul ( 1796 – 1864 ), the baker of Nîmes, who never surpassed his first effort, L ' Ange à l ' enfant ( 1828 ); Victor Gelu ( 1806-188 ~), relentless and brutal, but undeniably powerful of his kind ( Fenian ci Grouman ; dix chansons provençales, 1840 ); and, greatest of them all, the true and acknowledged forerunner of the felibres, Jacques Jasmin, whose poems, both lyrical and narrative, continue to find favour with men of the highest culture and literary attainments, as with the villagers for whom they were primarily intended.

Later, between 1825 and 1840, many mountain men, including Jedediah Smith and Jim Bridger, met on the south shore with Native Americans to swap goods and stories.

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.

On 8th March 1840, the Whyte brothers, William, George, Pringle, James and John massacred from 20-30 to 50 men, women, and children on the Konongwootong run.

By July 1840, 6206 men, 962 horses, 5 locomotives and 7 stationary engines were employed.

In 1840, one of the mining companies reported that 300, 000 bushels of coal were extracted from the-deep Pump Shaft alone, one of the more active mines, using the labor of approximately 150 men and 25 mules.

His greatest work, his commentary on the epistle to the Hebrews ( Brief an die Hebraer erlautert durch Einleilung, Ubersetzung, und fortlaufenden Commentar, in three parts, 1828, 1836 and 1840 ) won the highest praise from men like De Wette and Fr.

The light beam from the lamp was filtered through a half-standard thickness Corning 1840 filter.

Its people, including Pierre Bottineau and other American Fur Company employees and the refugees from Fort Garry, were joined by the remaining Scots and Swiss from Fort Snelling when Major Joseph Plympton expelled them from the reservation in May 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.

In 1840, Lincoln became engaged to Mary Todd, who was from a wealthy slave-holding family in Lexington, Kentucky.

Starting in 1840, the railway from Cologne to Belgium passed through Aachen.

Page from Udagawa Yōan's 1840 Seimi Kaisō

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.

* 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 ")

From around 1840 to 1860, laissez-faire advocates of the Manchester School and writers in The Economist were confident that their early victories would lead to a period of expanding economic and personal liberty and world peace but would face reversals as government intervention and activity continued to expand from the 1850s.

According to Partridge ( 1972: 12 ), it dates from around 1840 and arose in the East End of London, however John Camden Hotten in his 1859 Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words states that ( English ) rhyming slang originated " about twelve or fifteen years ago " ( i. e. in the 1840s ) with ' chaunters ' and ' patterers ' in the Seven Dials area of London.

This continued down to 1840 when the Barony of Dublin City was separated from the Barony of Dublin.

He was the second son of five children born to David Longfield Beatty ( 1840 − 1904 ) and Katherine ( or Katrine ) Edith Sadleir ( 1840 − 1896 ), both from Ireland.

It has been in existence since breaking up from the United Provinces of Central America in 1840.

He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1840.

Falstaff and Mistress Quickly from The Merry Wives of Windsor, Francis Philip Stephanoff, circa 1840

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

Guatemala gained independence from Spain on September 15, 1821 ; it briefly became part of the Mexican Empire and then for a period belonged to a federation called The United Provinces of Central America, until the federation broke up in civil war in 1838 – 1840 ( See: History of Central America ).

An Historical Geography of Europe ( 2 vol 2009 ) from 450BC to 1840

Just after independence was achieved, Paraguay was governed from 1814 by the dictator José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, who closed the borders of the country and prohibited trade or any relation with the exterior until his death in 1840.

from: 1840 till: 1926

In 1840 Tenniel, while practicing fencing with his father, received a serious wound in his eye from his father's foil, which had accidentally lost its protective tip.

They helped send several thousand freed slaves to the new colony of Liberia in Africa from 1820 to 1840.