Lieutenant William Hobson, following instructions of the British government, in 1840 pronounced the southern island of New Zealand to be uninhabited by civilised peoples, which qualified the land to be " terra nullius ", and therefore fit for the Crown's political occupation.

For this reason, for almost 150 years from its foundation by the Board of Trade in 1840, Her Majesty's Railway Inspectorate recruited suitably qualified retired officers from the Corps into its " senior " arm, as railway inspecting officers.

In 1840 the Senate of Hamburg ( city-state government ) passed a law stating that " künftighin auch ein oder zwei Mitglieder der hiesigen israelitischen Gemeinde, wenn sie sonst dazu qualifiziert wären, Notare werden könnten " ( in future also one or two members of the local Jewish community might become notaries, if they otherwise were duly qualified ).

Born in Liverpool to a merchant, he qualified as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1840 and established a successful practice in Brighton.

In 1840 he was reinstated in his professorship, and in 1841 was chosen rector of the university.

Here he remained until 1840, encountering many difficulties, due both to the distrust of those within the congregation who suspected the piety of a rabbi able to speak grammatical German, and who was a graduate of a German university, and to the peculiar legislation which in Prussia under Frederick William III regulated the status of the Jewish congregations.

Original components of the university included: the Mount Allison Wesleyan Academy for Boys ( 1840 – 1958 ), the Ladies ' College ( 1854 – 1958 ), and Mount Allison College.

In 1840 he travelled in Greece and Italy, and on his return settled at Oxford, where for ten years he was tutor of his college and an influential element in university life.

The town is also home to Bridgewater State University, a public liberal arts university that was originally founded as a teachers school in 1840.

He became successively inspector of the academy of Paris ( 1840 ), professor of the museum on the retirement of his father ( 1841 ), inspector-general of the university ( 1844 ), a member of the royal council for public instruction ( 1845 ), and on the death of Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, professor of zoology at the faculty of sciences ( 1850 ).

* William Henry Scott ( university president ) ( 1840 – 1937 ), American academic administrator

On leaving the university in 1840 he was appointed to a diplomatic post in Stockholm, Sweden.

In November 1834 Northumberland was elected high Steward of the university of Cambridge, holding that honour until 1840 when he was made Chancellor of the University.

* University of Life Science ( SGGW )-the largest agricultural university founded in 1816 as the Agronomic Institute, since 1840 – Institute of Forestry and Farming, since 1919 – the Main School of Farming ( this is still the university ’ s name in Polish ) ; 30, 000 students, 13 faculties ;

Founded in 1840, Southwestern is the oldest university in Texas.

He was transferred to Jena as rector of the town school in 1825 ; in 1840 he was also appointed extraordinary professor of the science of education ( Pädagogik ) in that university ; and in 1842 he became head of the Burgersckule ( middle class school ) in Kassel.

He was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, of which college ( after taking a first class in mathematics in 1840 and gaining the university mathematical scholarship in 1842 ) he became fellow in 1844 and tutor and mathematical lecturer in 1845.

He occupied the chair of rhetoric in Edinburgh University from 1840 to 1845, when he was appointed professor of logic in the university of St Andrews, a post which he held till his death.

In 1817 he was nominated by the Scandinavian Literary Society a corresponding member ; and in 1840 he was made DD by the university of Copenhagen.

* John Lee ( university principal ) ( 1779 – 1859 ), University of Edinburgh Principal ( 1840 – 1859 )

In 1840 he was also appointed extraordinary professor in the university.

In 1832, he became professor at the university of Berlin, and in 1840 became director of the Clinical Institute for Surgery at Charité Hospital.

In 1840 he went to Prague, where he studied at the Teachers ' Seminary and at the university.

Nevertheless, in 1840, a lecturer at the Royal College of Physicians would still state that " blood-letting is a remedy which, when judiciously employed, it is hardly possible to estimate too highly ", and Louis was dogged by the sanguinary Broussais, who could recommend leeches fifty at a time.

The most popular trance lecturer prior to the American Civil War was Cora L. V. Scott ( 1840 – 1923 ).

When Bright retired from the lectureship in 1840 Addison became sole lecturer.

In 1840, he was appointed lecturer in philosophy at the Royal Frederik's University in Christiania and delivered a series of lectures on literary subjects.

He then proceeded to India as classical lecturer at Bishop's College, Calcutta, to which post he added the duties of secretary to the Bengal branch of the Royal Asiatic Society ; and although compelled by illness to return in 1840, laid the foundation of a knowledge of Tibetan and Chinese.

In Edinburgh, he served an apprenticeship in dentistry ; he then moved back to Anstruther where he wrote his noted essay on " Teeth "; in 1840 he was appointed Conservator of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in succession to the great William McGillivray, and lecturer on Diseases of Bone in 1842.

In 1840 he was Privatdozent of theology at Tübingen, in 1847 professor of theology at Berne, in 1849 professor of theology at Marburg, migrating soon afterwards to the faculty of philosophy as the result of disputes with the Clerical party.

His lectures on biblical theology ( Vorlesungen über biblische Theologie und messianische Weissagungen ) were published in 1880 after his death, along with a portrait and biographical sketch by his pupil, J. J. Kneucker ( b. 1840 ), professor of theology at Heidelberg.

In 1836, on the death of his mother, he took to manual work in order to support his numerous brothers and sisters, but in 1840 he was able to go to the gymnasium at Aachen, and he afterwards studied theology at the universities of Bonn and Munich.

In 1840 he went to Eton College, where he did well in French, German, the classics and theology.

In 1840 he was transferred to the chair of didactic theology, retaining, however, the department of New Testament exegesis, the duties of which he continued to discharge until his death.

In 1840 Alemany completed his licentiate in sacred theology at the College of St. Thomas, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum.

Joseph Sadoc Alemany ( 3 July 1814 – 14 April 1888 ), missionary to California, completed his licentiate in sacred theology at the Angelicum in 1840.

But under the influence of Neander he was gradually breaking away from " Puritanic Presbyterianism ," and in 1840, having resigned his chair in Allegheny, he was appointed professor of theology in the ( German Reformed ) Theological Seminary at Mercersburg, Pa., and thus passed from the Presbyterian Church into the German Reformed.

At Copenhagen he was lektor in theology in 1838, professor extra-ordinarius in 1840, court preacher also in 1845, and professor ordinarius in 1850.

Between 1790 and 1840, Cambridge began to grow rapidly, with the construction of the West Boston Bridge in 1792, that connected Cambridge directly to Boston, making it no longer necessary to travel eight miles ( 13 km ) through the Boston Neck, Roxbury, and Brookline to cross the Charles River.

From October 1840 until January 1843 he was in Paris, busy with the treasures of the Bibliothèque Nationale, eking out his scanty means by making collations for other scholars, and producing for the publisher, Firmin Didot, several editions of the Greek New Testament — one of them exhibiting the form of the text corresponding most closely to the Vulgate.

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.

In 1840, one of his paintings attracted attention and procured him several orders, which enabled him to go to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied with Lessing.

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 ).

Although Bischoff ’ s 1840 surveys depict how similar the early embryos of man are to other vertebrates, he later demanded that such hasty generalization was inconsistent with his recent findings regarding the dissimilarity between hamster embryos and those of rabbits and dogs.

Witness his monographs on the vowel system in th Teutonic languages ( 1836 ), on the Celtic languages ( 1839 ), on the Old Prussian ( 1853 ) and Albanian languages ( Über das Albanesische in seinen verwandtschaftlichen Beziehungen, Vienna, 1854 ), on the accent in Sanskrit and Greek ( 1854 ), on the relationship of the Malayo-Polynesian with the Indo-European languages ( 1840 ), and on the Caucasian languages ( 1846 ).

The three years after Albany Academy ( 1837 to 1840 ) were mostly occupied with teaching school, except for the voyage to Liverpool in 1839.

It failed but in August 1840, Prince Louis Napoleon tried another coup at Boulogne with hired soldiers.

* Boalch, Donald H. ( 1995 ) Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord, 1440 – 1840, 3rd ed., with updates by Andreas H. Roth and Charles Mould, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-318429-X.

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.

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.

* 1840 – The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.

Cannon was born in Guilford, Guilford County, North Carolina, and in 1840 moved with his parents to Annapolis, Indiana, about 30 miles north of Terre Haute, Indiana.

Diarist Anne Lister, captivated by Butler and Ponsonby, recorded her affairs with women between 1817 and 1840.

In 1840, after several setbacks with the school, the Alcott family moved to a cottage on of land, situated along the Sudbury River in Concord, Massachusetts.

Thus familiarized with the phenomena associated with the movements of recent glaciers, Agassiz was prepared for a discovery which he made in 1840, in conjunction with William Buckland.

From then until 1840, only a few sporadic contacts with the archipelago were recorded.

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.

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.