On July 26, 1840, Abby May gave birth again.

In 1840, Gauss published his influential Dioptrische Untersuchungen, in which he gave the first systematic analysis on the formation of images under a paraxial approximation ( Gaussian optics ).

Singing Grass gave birth to a second daughter but developed a fever shortly after the birth, and died sometime between 1838 – 1840.

In 1840 Henry Clay finally gave Charlotte and her daughter Mary Ann Dupuy their freedom.

He gave 11 significant lectures in Geneva in 1840 on the hope of the church ( L ' attente actuelle de l ' église ).

The Rhein University was thus nameless until 1840, when the new King of Prussia, Frederick William IV gave it the official name Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität.

During 1842 in response to the blue book published by Villiers ' 1840 Committee on Import Duties, Peel gave the concession of modifying the sliding scale by reducing the maximum duty to 20 shillings when the price decreased to 51 shillings or less.

In 1840, Queen Victoria gave the society her blessing, and it became the RSPCA.

He gave a commission to William Hobson to sail for the East Indies, which Hobson ultimately rewarded in the naming of his new town Auckland, New Zealand in 1840.

Forty four chiefs from this area had signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 which gave the British sovereignty over the land and the people.

Vinet's Chrestomathie française ( 1829 ), his Études sur la littérature française au XIX < sup > e </ sup > siècle ( 1840 – 51 ), and his Histoire de la littérature française au XVII < sup > e </ sup > siècle, together with his Études sur Pascal, Études sur les moralistes aux XV < sup > e </ sup > et XVI < sup > e </ sup > siècles, Histoire de la prédication parmi les Réformes de France and other related works, gave evidence of a wide knowledge of literature, acute literary judgment and a distinguished faculty of appreciation.

In 1840, he gave his informal public debut at the new St. Charles Hotel.

Hoffmann was deprived of his chair in 1842 in consequence of his Unpolitische Lieder ( 1840 – 1841, " Unpolitical Songs "), which gave much offence to the authorities in Prussia.

It gave its name to Minories railway station, built in 1840 as a part of the London and Blackwall Railway – a cable railway.

Alexandre Debain improved Grenié's instrument and gave it the name harmonium when he patented his version in 1840.

He eventually gave details of the process to the French Academy of Sciences on 24 February 1840 in return for money to buy better equipment.

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 ).

The canal system gave New York State a competitive advantage, helped New York City develop as an international trade center, and allowed Buffalo to grow from just 2, 000 settlers in 1820 to over 18, 000 people by 1840.

In 1840 she gave birth to her daughter Henriette, but neither her husband nor her lover, Victor Cousin, would acknowledge paternity.

Sophia gave two of her paintings ( pictured ) to Hawthorne in 1840 on the first anniversary of their engagement.

He took up the term from Gilbert Laing Meason and gave it publicity in his Encyclopedias and in his 1840 book on the Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphry Repton.

In July 1840, the court ruled against Wieck, and it gave consent to the marriage.

With Dr. Thomas Raffles and William Roley he established the Lancashire Independent College, first at Blackburn and then at Whalley Range, where in 1840 he laid the foundation-stone of the new building, and gave £ 2000 towards the cost of the erection.

The valuable results of this journey, which occupied him from 1840 to 1843, he gave to the world in a number of papers in scientific publications, chiefly in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society.

On January 15, 1840, state lawmakers incorporated Livingston Female Academy, granted it tax-exempt status, and gave the board the authority to establish rules and regulations.

Bessel's work in 1840 contributed in some degree to the discovery of Neptune.

Dingane ruled for some twelve years, during which time he fought, disastrously, against the Voortrekkers, and against another half-brother Mpande, who with Boer and British support, took over the Zulu leadership in 1840, and ruled for some 30 years.

By 1840, the Institute was established with 1, 000 subscribers and a library of some 5, 500 books.

The abolition of some corporate bodies as part of successive local government reforms, beginning with the Municipal Corporations ( Ireland ) Act 1840, has deprived some ancient cities of their status.

According to some estimates the Thuggee gangs in India murdered 1 million people between 1740 and 1840.

The effect was precipitate: a population of 6, 000 people in 1840 was increased to 168, 000 by 1910 ; and save for the green spaces of Battersea Park, Clapham Common, Wandsworth Common and some smaller isolated pockets, all other farmland was built over, with, from north to south, industrial buildings and vast railway sheds and sidings ( much of which remain ), slum housing for workers, especially north of the main east – west railway, and gradually more genteel residential terraced housing further south.

* It was originally set off from Mackinac County and some undesignated territory in 1840 as Mikenauk County.

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 1840 population level was reached again in 1980, some 140 years later.

The most prominent being the rhyming weaver poetry, of which, some 60 to 70 volumes were published between 1750 and 1850, the peak being in the decades 1810 to 1840, although the first printed poetry ( in the Habbie stanza form ) by an Ulster Scots writer was published in a broadsheet in Strabane in 1735.

He sent Willoughby Shortland and some soldiers to Port Nicholson on 25 May 1840, and the council of the settlers was disbanded.

The year 1840 in literature involved some significant new books.

Thomas Nast ( 1840 – 1902, American ) was a famous caricaturist and editorial cartoonist in the 19th century and is considered by some as written in 1908 by the New York Times to be the father of American political cartooning.

To his function as a preacher we owe some of his most characteristic and stimulating works, especially the discourses by which it may be said he won his way to wide and influential recognition -- Endeavours after the Christian Life, 1st series, 1843 ; 2nd series, 1847 ; Hours of Thought, 1st series, 1876 ; 2nd series, 1879 ; the various hymn-books he issued at Dublin in 1831, at Liverpool in 1840, in London in 1873 ; and the Home Prayers in 1891.

The Treaty of Waitangi was first signed on 6 February 1840 and conflict between the British Crown and Māori tribes was to some extent inevitable after that.

On 21 May 1840 New Zealand was formally annexed by the British Crown and the following year the capital moved to Auckland, some 200 km south of Waitangi.

From the time when in about 1840 he fitted up some simple physical apparatus in his rooms in Pembroke College, mathematics and experiment ever went hand in hand, aiding and checking each other.

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JN Darby's visits to Switzerland between 1835 and 1840 with critiques of Methodist perfectionism resulted in the establishment of meetings in Vevey in 1838 and Lausanne in 1840 drawn from some of the dissenting churches.

In North America some of the first migrants which could be considered kinsmen of the sept Moriarty of that same family were Daniel, Ellen, Eugene, Margaret, Michael, Thomas Moriarty all settled in Boston in 1849 ; James, John, Martin, Maurice, and Michael Moriarty all arrived in Philadelphia between 1840 and 1860.