In 1840 Hoffmann wrote a song about the Zollverein, also to Haydn's melody, in which he praised the free trade of German goods which brought Germans and Germany closer.

Wagner wrote the first prose draft of the story in Paris early in May 1840, basing the story on Heinrich Heine's satire " The Memoirs of Mister von Schnabelewopski " ( Aus den Memoiren des Herrn von Schnabelewopski ) published in Der Salon in 1834.

Composition of the music had begun during May-July of the previous year, 1840, when Wagner wrote Senta's Ballad, the Norwegian Sailors ' song in Act 3 (" Steersman, leave the Watch!

In his 1840 novel Le Notaire, he wrote that a young person in the legal profession sees " the oily wheels of every fortune, the hideous wrangling of heirs over corpses not yet cold, the human heart grappling with the Penal Code.

Czech cultural historian and ethnographer Čeněk Zíbrt, who wrote in detail about the origin of the dance, in his book, Jak se kdy v Čechách tancovalo cites an opinion of František Doucha ( 1840, Květy, p. 400 ) that " polka " was supposed to mean " tanec na polo " ( n. b. the absence of diacritics ), i. e., " a dance in half ", both referring to the half-tempo 2 / 4 and the half-jump step of the dance.

Between 1830 and 1840, Berlioz wrote many of his most popular and enduring works.

In the winter of 1840 — 1841 she wrote her famous novella Die Judenbuche ( The Jew's Beech, published 1842 ), based on an incident which had occurred near Bökerhof in the late 18th century.

In her Clues in the Needlework newsletter, Barbara Brackman wrote, " Many of the blocks in the early album quilts made between 1840 and 1860 featured elaborate ink signatures and small drawings and verses.

van Blom wrote those words of praise about his hometown in 1840 A. D ..

In 1840, Otway Curry, a poet of national fame and resident of Marysville, wrote the " Log Cabin Song.

Stone wrote to her brother in 1840, saying that a new faction apparently wished to " crush Lloyd Garrison and the women.

Their correspondence of 1840 / 41 reveals that they were both outlining scenarios for an opera on the subject of the Nibelungenlied: Fanny wrote ' The hunt with Siegfried's death provides a splendid finale to the second act '.

* Émile Zola ( 1840 – 1902 ) wrote the novel Lourdes that deals with faith and healing, particularly of Marie de Guersaint.

He wrote works of archaeological interest, of which the most important are Die Erfindung des Alphabets ( 1840 ), Urgeschichte und Mythologie der Philister ( 1845 ), and Die Grabschrift des Eschmunezar ( 1855 ).

In 1840 he wrote introductory notices to the work of Sheridan and to Edward Moxon's edition of the works of William Wycherley, William Congreve, John Vanbrugh and George Farquhar, a work which furnished the occasion of Macaulay's essay on the Dramatists of the Restoration.

In 1840 he managed the Lyceum theatre, for which he wrote several light burlesques, but in 1842 he moved to the United States, where he became a member of WE Burton's company, for which he wrote several comedies, including Met-a-mora ; or, the Last of the Pollywogs, a parody of John A.

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.

He kept a diary throughout the voyage, and, after returning, he wrote a recognized American classic, Two Years Before the Mast, published in 1840, the same year of his admission to the bar.

He wrote to Ripley on December 15, 1840, of his " conviction that the Community is not good for me ".

changes subdued its atmosphere ; in 1840, Lacroix wrote: " Once the pont Neuf was a perpetual fair ; at present, it is just a bridge to be crossed without stopping.

He also wrote a somewhat fantastic Idylle vom Bodensee, oder Fischer Martin und die Glockendiebe ( 1846 ; 2nd ed., 1856 ), the caprice Das Stuttgarter Hutzelmännlein ( 1855 ), and published a collection of hymns, odes, elegies and idylls of the Greeks and Romans, entitled Klassische Blumenlese ( 1840 ).

In May 1840, following the Whigs relocation to Jonesborough, Haynes wrote an article insulting Brownlow's lineage.

She wrote several works, the best known of which are Peregrinations of a Pariah ( 1838 ), Promenades in London ( 1840 ), and The Workers ' Union ( 1843 ).

The fourth bridge was also a chain suspension bridge, and though damaged by floods in 1815, it lasted until 1840.

Two long papers published in 1840 — one on attractions and Clairaut's theorem, and the other on the variation of gravity at the surface of the earth — also demand notice, as do his mathematical memoirs on the critical values of sums of periodic series ( 1847 ) and on the numerical calculation of a class of definite integrals and infinite series ( 1850 ) and his discussion of a differential equation relating to the breaking of railway bridges ( 1849 ), research related to his evidence given to the Royal Commission on the Use of Iron in Railway structures after the Dee bridge disaster of 1847.

A custom which survived until 1840 obliged the lord of Fordingbridge during one summer month known as " fence month " to keep the bridge guarded and arrest anyone found taking venison from the New Forest.

After the River Doe Lea joins the Rother from the east, the river is crossed by a grade II listed two-arched bridge built around 1840 by the North Midland Railway, which carries a minor road to the golf course.

Another freshet closed the bridge from February 10, 1840 to 1843.

The family of Thomas Maconchy, one of the early settlers of Gilford, built a sawmill in Bradford at the bridge over the Holland River, in 1840.

The dam, as well as the bridge crossing the Farmington River downstream at Route 187, got its name from the silver plating factory erected in 1840 on the north bank of the river.

It became a major railway and motorway point back in the 1840 as its train station was build in 1840 and it was the first city surroundy Paris that had at this time a bridge crossing the river Seine.

: Note: To the east of the Holland Road bridge lay the site of a first Hove station, 1840 to 1880, the site was later used as a commercial coal yard

After the bridge was destroyed, the island was largely abandoned until 1840, when the island was transformed into a dumping ground for everything unwanted in New York City.

The fifth bridge was built in 1840, and made of chain and wood.

By 1840 it would seem, however, that there was a mixture of bridge rails, single parallel and double parallel rails ( See Rail profile ).

View of Kagurazaka and Ushigome bridge to Edo Castle ( 牛込神楽坂の図 ), by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1840.

The first pile of the central bridge was driven home on 2 November 1840.

Hans Makart ( May 28, 1840 – October 3, 1884 ) was a 19th century Austrian academic history painter, designer, and decorator ; most well known for his influence on Gustav Klimt and other Austrian artists, but in his own era considered an important artist himself and was a celebrity figure in the high culture of Vienna, attended with almost cult-like adulation.

* May 19-Benjamin Baker, British civil engineer, designer of the Forth Railway Bridge ( born 1840 ).

* 1840 – Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.

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.

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.

Charles Lyell at the British Association meeting in Glasgow 1840.

From around 1810 to 1840, the best-known Shakespearean performances in the United States were tours by leading London actors — including George Frederick Cooke, Junius Brutus Booth, Edmund Kean, William Charles Macready, and Charles Kemble.

* 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.

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

Although the Riksdag of the Estates of 1840 meditated compelling him to abdicate, Charles John survived that abdication controversy and he went on to have his silver jubilee, which was celebrated with great enthusiasm on 18 February 1843.

Sir James Clark Ross took the first modern sounding in deep sea in 1840, and Charles Darwin published a paper on reefs and the formation of atolls as a result of the second voyage of HMS Beagle in 1831-6.

" When the traveller Charles Fellows saw the tombs in 1840 he found them still colorfully painted red, yellow and blue.

* Wiltse, Charles M. John C. Calhoun, Nationalist, 1782 – 1828 ( 1944 ) ISBN 0-8462-1041-X ; John C. Calhoun, Nullifier, 1829 – 1839 ( 1948 ); John C. Calhoun, Sectionalist, 1840 – 1859 ( 1951 ); the standard scholarly biography

* Charles Rogier ( 1831 – 1832 and 1834 – 1840 )

* Bill Scott – Jack Spigot ( 1821 ), Memnon ( 1825 ), The Colonel ( 1828 ), Rowton ( 1829 ), Don John ( 1838 ), Charles the Twelfth ( 1839 ), Launcelot ( 1840 ), Satirist ( 1841 ), Sir Tatton Sykes ( 1846 )

* John Scott – Matilda ( 1827 ), The Colonel ( 1828 ), Rowton ( 1829 ), Margrave ( 1832 ), Touchstone ( 1834 ), Don John ( 1838 ), Charles the Twelfth ( 1839 ), Launcelot ( 1840 ), Satirist ( 1841 ), The Baron ( 1845 ), Newminster ( 1851 ), West Australian ( 1853 ), Warlock ( 1856 ), Imperieuse ( 1857 ), Gamester ( 1859 ), The Marquis ( 1862 )

In 1840 American Charles Wilkes explored in the area.

* Charles Jones ( Upper Canada politician ) ( 1781 – 1840 ), Canadian merchant, politician

The school moved around 1840 to accommodate larger numbers of pupils into new buildings designed by Charles Barry ( junior ), son of Sir Charles Barry who designed Westminster Palace.

The expanded content included the addition of fiction, and in 1840, Harding gained rights to publish several Charles Dickens novels for which Dickens was paid a significant amount.

1840 – 1841 Camera obscura | Camerae obscurae and plates for Daguerreotype called " Grand Photographe " produced by Charles Chevalier ( Musée des Arts et Métiers )

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 land on which Towanda stands was first entered by Charles Badeau who had graduated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, in 1840, and was employed as the assistant to the chief engineer of what was then the Alton and Springfield Railroad.

The two mills were later remodeled by Benjamin Brown, Jr., Charles W. Henry, and Brenton W. Hazard, before burning down in 1840 while under the ownership of Dr.

* Charles W. Wetmore, 1840 to 1843