* 1840 – Michael O ' Laughlen, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln ( d. 1867 )

In 1840 he moved back to Lincoln, where he ran a boarding school.

Tantivy Lodge was in existence from about 1840 through the early 1950s ; tradition states that Abraham Lincoln stopped there while traveling from Springfield to the Logan County courthouse at Postville ( today a part of the newer City of Lincoln, Illinois ) while Lincoln rode the judicial circuit as a lawyer.

Voter-conscious Illinois Democrats and Whigs ( including Abraham Lincoln ) passed a bipartisan city-state charter for Nauvoo in 1840.

After journalistic work in Lincoln and London he joined the staff of the Leicester Mercury in 1840.

He was the principal political advisor to the prominent New York politician William H. Seward and was instrumental in the presidential nominations of William Henry Harrison ( 1840 ), Henry Clay ( 1844 ), Zachary Taylor ( 1848 ), Winfield Scott ( 1852 ), John Charles Frémont ( 1856 ) and Abraham Lincoln ( 1860 ).

Their “ worm fence march ” can be imagined, as can a nice connection to Lincoln as rail splitter — a connection that does remind us of the log-cabin and hard / cider symbolism of earlier days 1840.

Lincoln and Mary Todd met in Springfield in 1839 and became engaged in 1840.

Around 1835, he became acquainted with Abraham Lincoln and soon became involved in local politics, being elected to the Illinois House of Representatives on July 1, 1837, and serving on the Illinois Senate from 1840 to 1844.

Lincoln Edwin Robert Stanhope ( 26 November 1781 – 29 February 1840 ).

* Michael O ' Laughlen ( 1840 – 1867 ), Lincoln assassination conspirator.

* Edward P. Doherty ( 1840 – 1897 ), United States Army officer, led capture of the assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln

Ruston & Hornsby, later known as Ruston, was an industrial equipment manufacturer in Lincoln, England, the company's history going back to 1840.

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.

Writings in Estonian became more significant in the 19th century during the Estophile Enlightenment Period ( 1750 – 1840 ).

Writings in Estonian became significant only in the 19th century with the spread of the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment, during the Estophile Enlightenment Period ( 1750 – 1840 ).

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 ).

This later became the Balfour family home and, in 1840, the birthplace of the psychiatrist James Crichton-Browne.

* 1840 – Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States.

After Napoleon's Hundred Days following his escape from Elba, Landau, which had remained French, was granted to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 and became the capital of one of the thirteen Bezirksämter ( counties ) of the Bavarian Rheinpfalz. In 1840 famous political cartoonist Thomas Nast was born in Landau.

In 1840, the Kockums shipyard was founded and it eventually became one of the largest shipyards in the world.

Contacts became more frequent after 1840, because of the interest in sandalwood from New Caledonia.

These reforms included guarantees to ensure the Ottoman subjects perfect security for their lives, honour, and property ; the introduction of the first Ottoman paper banknotes ( 1840 ) and opening of the first post offices ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the finance system according to the French model ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the Civil and Criminal Code according to the French model ( 1840 ); the establishment of the Meclis-i Maarif-i Umumiye ( 1841 ) which was the prototype of the First Ottoman Parliament ( 1876 ); the reorganization of the army and a regular method of recruiting, levying the army, and fixing the duration of military service ( 1843 – 44 ); the adoption of an Ottoman national anthem and Ottoman national flag ( 1844 ); the first nationwide Ottoman census in 1844 ( only male citizens were counted ); the first national identity cards ( officially named the Mecidiye identity papers, or informally kafa kağıdı ( head paper ) documents, 1844 ); the institution of a Council of Public Instruction ( 1845 ) and the Ministry of Education ( Mekatib-i Umumiye Nezareti, 1847, which later became the Maarif Nezareti, 1857 ); the abolition of slavery and slave trade ( 1847 ); the establishment of the first modern universities ( darülfünun, 1848 ), academies ( 1848 ) and teacher schools ( darülmuallimin, 1848 ); establishment of the Ministry of Healthcare ( Tıbbiye Nezareti, 1850 ); the Commerce and Trade Code ( 1850 ); establishment of the Academy of Sciences ( Encümen-i Daniş, 1851 ); establishment of the Şirket-i Hayriye which operated the first steam-powered commuter ferries ( 1851 ); the first European style courts ( Meclis-i Ahkam-ı Adliye, 1853 ) and supreme judiciary council ( Meclis-i Ali-yi Tanzimat, 1853 ); establishment of the modern Municipality of Istanbul ( Şehremaneti, 1854 ) and the City Planning Council ( İntizam-ı Şehir Komisyonu, 1855 ); the abolition of the capitation ( Jizya ) tax on non-Muslims, with a regular method of establishing and collecting taxes ( 1856 ); non-Muslims were allowed to become soldiers ( 1856 ); various provisions for the better administration of the public service and advancement of commerce ; the establishment of the first telegraph networks ( 1847 – 1855 ) and railroads ( 1856 ); the replacement of guilds with factories ; the establishment of the Ottoman Central Bank ( originally established as the Bank-ı Osmanî in 1856, and later reorganized as the Bank-ı Osmanî-i Şahane in 1863 ) and the Ottoman Stock Exchange ( Dersaadet Tahvilat Borsası, established in 1866 ); the Land Code ( Arazi Kanunnamesi, 1857 ); permission for private sector publishers and printing firms with the Serbesti-i Kürşad Nizamnamesi ( 1857 ); establishment of the School of Economical and Political Sciences ( Mekteb-i Mülkiye, 1859 ); the Press and Journalism Regulation Code ( Matbuat Nizamnamesi, 1864 ); among others.

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.

In 1840 the first spa opened in Kuressaare ( then known as Arensburg ), and the town became a resort for Russians and Baltic Germans.

He became owner of several newspapers from 1840, including the Dublin Evening Mail and the Warder.

Topelius became a student at the Imperial Alexander University of Finland in 1833, received his master's degree degree in 1840, the Licentiate degree in 1844 and was made a doctor of philosophy in 1847, having defended a dissertation titled De modo matrimonia jungendi apud fennos quondam vigente (" About the custom of marriage among the ancient Finns ").

Manufactured tin whistles became available no earlier than 1840, and were mass produced and widespread due to their relative affordability.

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.

This dish became so popular that in 1840 a local Spanish newspaper first used the word paella to refer to the recipe rather than the pan.

CRM Talbot's daughter Emily Charlotte Talbot ( 1840 – 1918 ) inherited her father's fortune and became just as notable in the development of ports and railways.

The Census Act of 1840 established a central office which became known as the Census Office.

In 1840, Péclet became inspecteur général de l ' instruction publique.

In 1856 Burne-Jones became engaged to Georgiana " Georgie " MacDonald ( 1840 – 1920 ), one of the MacDonald sisters.

During the period of 1838 – 1840, the federation engaged in civil war by Conservatives fighting against the Liberals.

The two became engaged in the autumn of 1840 ; her father Abijah White, a wealthy merchant from Watertown, insisted that their wedding be postponed until Lowell had gainful employment.

The two became engaged in the autumn of 1840.

An attempt to cross the Everglades from west to east was launched in April 1840, but the sailors and marines were engaged by Seminoles at the rendezvous point on Cape Sable.

In 1840, one Southern planter who came to New York from Columbia, South Carolina, observed to his wife in a letter that the Phyfes were “ as much behind the times in style as ( they were ) in price .” This is because the Phyfes always adhered to the classicist language until the end, they never fully engaged with the emerging historical revival styles ( e. g. Baroque, Gothic, Rococo, etc.

Thenceforward Barye, though engaged in a perpetual struggle with want, exhibited year after year studies of animals — admirable groups which reveal him as inspired by a spirit of true romance, as in his Roger and Angelica on the Hippogriff ( 1840 ), drawn from an episode in Orlando furioso, and a feeling for the beauty of the antique, as in Theseus and the Minotaur ( 1847 ), " Lapitha and Centaur " ( 1848 ), and numerous minor works now very highly valued.

He engaged in civil engineering and graduated from Kinderhook Academy in 1840.

In 1840 Sir Charles Fellows engaged Scharf to join him on his second journey to Asia Minor and on the way spent some time in Italy.

Thomas was engaged by the LC & N to set up the Lehigh Crane Iron Company and its first furnace at Catasauqua, which went into blast in 1840, along with five other anthracite furnaces.

Townshend was a delegate to the World's Antislavery Convention in London in 1840, studied medicine in the hospitals of London, Paris, Edinburgh, and Dublin, and in 1841 engaged in the practice of medicine in Avon, Ohio.

Regine Schlegel née Olsen ( January 23, 1822 – March 18, 1904 ) was a Danish woman who was engaged to the philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard from September 1840 to October 1841.

Kingston established himself as a civil engineer, architect and surveyor, and in 1840 the Adelaide Municipal Council briefly engaged him as town surveyor.

David Livingstone, a Scottish missionary, had been engaged since 1840 in work north of the Orange River.

Jameson was born in Mount Sterling, Kentucky in Montgomery County, Kentucky, March 6, 1802 ; attended the common schools ; moved to Callaway County, Missouri, in 1825 ; studied law ; was admitted to the bar in 1826 and commenced practice in Fulton, Missouri ; held several local offices ; member of the Missouri House of Representatives 1830-1836 and served as speaker in 1834 and 1836 ; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Albert G. Harrison and served from December 12, 1839 to March 3, 1841 ; was not a candidate for renomination in 1840 ; elected to the Twenty-eighth Congress ( March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845 ); was not a candidate for renomination in 1844 ; elected to the Thirtieth Congress ( March 4, 1847-March 3, 1849 ); was not a candidate for renomination in 1848 ; ordained as a minister in the Christian Church ; also engaged in agricultural pursuits ; served as a captain in the Black Hawk War ; died in Fulton, January 24, 1857 ; interment in the Jameson family cemetery near Fulton.