Otway Curry was a nationally known poet who also became a jurist in 1840.

The village was incorporated in 1840, with Otway Curry elected as the first mayor.

* 1888 – Namık Kemal, Turkish poet ( b. 1840 )

* 1840 – William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic ( d. 1901 )

* December 2 – Namık Kemal, Turkish patriotic poet, social reformer ( b. 1840 )

* April 19 – John Addington Symonds, English poet and literary critic ( b. 1840 )

* September 2 – Henry Austin Dobson, English poet ( born 1840 )

* September 10 – Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet ( b. 1840 )

* April 27 — Francišak Bahuševič, Belarusian poet, writer and lawyer ( born 1840 )

* September 10-Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet ( born 1840 )

* January 11-Thomas Hardy, English novelist & poet ( born 1840 )

* April 19-John Addington Symonds, poet and essayist ( born 1840 )

William Cosmo Monkhouse ( 18 March 1840 – 20 July 1901 ), English poet and critic.

Henry Austin Dobson ( 18 January 1840 – 2 September 1921 ), commonly Austin Dobson, was an English poet and essayist.

* Namık Kemal ( 1840 – 1888 ), Turkish nationalist poet

Thomas Hardy ( 1840 – 1928 ), was an English novelist, short-story writer, and poet.

Henri Cazalis ( 9 March 1840, Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Val-d ' Oise – 1 July 1909 ) was a French physician who was a symbolist poet and man of letters and wrote under the pseudonyms of Jean Caselli and Jean Lahor.

" In 2007, Lebanese poet, Marwan Chamoun, in an interview aired on Télé Liban, referred to the "... slaughter of the priest Tomaso de Camangiano ... in 1840 ... in the presence of two rabbis in the heart of Damascus, in the home of a close friend of this priest, Daud Al-Harari, the head of the Jewish community of Damascus.

Louis Jean Népomucène Lemercier ( April 20, 1771 – June 7, 1840 ) was a French poet and dramatist.

Many of the writers in the Tanzimat period wrote in several different genres simultaneously: for instance, the poet Nâmık Kemal ( 1840 – 1888 ) also wrote the important 1876 novel İntibâh ( انتباه ; " Awakening "), while the journalist İbrahim Şinasi ( 1826 – 1871 ) is noted for writing, in 1860, the first modern Turkish play, the one-act comedy " Şair Evlenmesi " ( شاعر اولنمسى ; " The Poet's Marriage ").

* Franz von Gaudy ( 1800 – 1840 ), poet and novelist

We shall not go far wrong if we include in the list Hyacinthe Morel ( 1756 – 1829 ), of Avignon, whose collection of poems, Lou Saboulet, has been republished by Frédéric Mistral ; Louis Aubanel ( 178 ~- 1842 ), of Nîmes, the successful translator of Anacreon's Odes ; Auguste Tandon, the troubadour of Montpellier, who wrote Fables, contes et autres pièces en vers ( 1800 ); Fabre d ' Olivet, the versatile littérateur who in 1803 published Le Troubadour: Poésies occitaniques, which, in order to secure their success, he gave out as the work of some medieval poet Diou-loufet ( 1771 – 1840 ), who wrote a didactic poem, in the manner of Virgil, relating to silkworm-breeding ( Leis magnans ); Jacques Azais ( 1778 – 1856 ), author of satires, fables, & c .; d ' Astros ( 1780 – 1863 ), a writer of fables in La Fontaine's manner ; Castil-Blaze, who found time, amidst his musical pursuits, to compose Provençal poems, intended to be set to music ; the Marquis de Fare-Alais ( 1791 – 1846 ), author of some light satirical tales ( Las Castagnados ).

Samuel Ullman ( April 13, 1840 – March 21, 1924 ) was an American businessman, poet, humanitarian.

He married poet Laura Beatrice Mancini in 1840, and she ran a literary salon for liberal-minded Neapolitans out of their house.

* John Addington Symonds ( 1840 – 1893 ), English poet and critic

After 1840, emigration had become a massive, relentless, and efficiently managed national enterprise.

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.

In 1840 the gardens were adopted as a national botanical garden.

The Estophile Enlightenment Period 1750 – 1840 led to the Estonian national awakening in the middle of the 19th century.

The 1st Armored Cavalry Regiment " Grenadiers " ( Regimiento de Caballeria Blindada n. 1 " Granaderos ") of the Chilean Army is active since 1827, has fought in every major battle of the Chilean Army in the 19th century and since 1840 and 1907 has served as the Escort Regiment to the President of Chile in every important national occasion.

It was named by the Polish explorer Count Paul Edmund Strzelecki in 1840, in honour of the Polish national hero and hero of the American Revolutionary War General Tadeusz Kościuszko, because of its perceived resemblance to the Kościuszko Mound in Krakow.

From 1840 onward, Millerism was transformed from an “ obscure, regional movement into a national campaign .” The key figure in this transformation was Joshua Vaughan Himes — the pastor of Chardon Street Chapel in Boston, and an able and experienced publisher.

The term appears to have achieved national prominence in 1840, when supporters of the American Democratic political party claimed during the 1840 United States presidential election that it stood for " Old Kinderhook ," a nickname for a Democratic presidential candidate, Martin Van Buren, a native of Kinderhook, New York, who was Andrew Jackson's protégé.

It is said, however, that the melody has been known since 1840 as La Marsellesa Venezolana ( Venezuelan Marseillaise ), in reference to its subtle similarity to the French national anthem.

From 1840 onwards, Millerism was transformed from an " obscure, regional movement into a national campaign.

In 1840 he climbed the highest peak in Australia and named it Mount Kosciuszko, to honour Tadeusz Kościuszko, one of the national heroes of Poland and a hero of the American Revolutionary War.

The postal history of the United Kingdom is notable in at least two respects ; first, for the introduction of postage stamps in 1840, and secondly for the establishment of an efficient postal system throughout the British Empire, laying the foundation of many national systems in existence today.

When in 1840 the last volume of the History was published, his fame not only in England but in France and Germany was safely established.

On his return to America in 1840, he painted his allegorical painting " Mercy's Dream ", which brought him fame and confirmed his interest in inspirational subjects.

Much of the land in the area had been purchased by speculators, and as late as 1840 there were only three resident land owners.

A notable resident was Joseph Williamson ( 1769 – 1840 ) a tobacco magnate who was responsible for much of the building in the area during the early 19th century.

They are William Henry Harrison, Virginia-born but elected as a resident of Ohio ; John Tyler, who was elected Vice President in 1840 as Harrison's running mate, but wound up serving all but the first month of the latter's term after Harrison became the first President to die in office ; Zachary Taylor, who made his name as a Kentucky resident ; and Woodrow Wilson, who was a Virginia native but was elected President after serving as the president of Princeton University and Governor of New Jersey.

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

Between 1840 and 1843 alone, 3, 000 Chinese contract workers arrived on the island ; by mid-century, the total resident Chinese population reached five thousand.

He was much attached to the Roman Catholic faith of his childhood and presented a house for a chapel to Father Lucien Galtier, the first resident missionary in Minnesota ( 1840 ).

In Cambridge, where from 1840 he studied geology, he was a resident of Caius College.