In 2006, Turner's Glaucus and Scylla ( 1840 ) was returned by Kimbell Art Museum to the heirs of John and Anna Jaffe after a Holocaust Claim was made.

* 1840 – Slave Ship ( Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On ), oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Woman's purse, Berlin wool work, Europe, cotton canvas with wool needlepoint, silk-braided cord, and silk chenille tassels, c. 1840, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M. 2007. 211. 280.

* Osborn-Cannonball House Museum is a historic home located at 1840 Front Street in Scotch Plains.

* The 1840 Penny Black at the American National Postal Museum

In year 1840 chapel has been built which later became Museum of The Battle of The Bzura river.

* Single trial impressions, submitted to Rowland Hill August 31, 1840 British Postal Museum & Archive

Image: JohnPickering ca1840 byAlvanClark MFA Boston. png | Portrait of John Pickering, ca. 1840 ( Museum of Fine Arts, Boston )

In 1840, he began to study and collect exotic birds, which he donated to the Bremen Natural History Museum.

Image: Study for Landing of Columbus by John Vanderlyn. jpg | Study for Landing of Columbus, about 1840, held at the Birmingham Museum of Art

In 1840 he became curator of the Manchester Museum for twenty-two years.

Image: Thomas Sully 001. jpg | Mother and Son, 1840, oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Historical buildings include the Cathedral of Our Lady of Pleasures ( 1840 ), the Deodoro Theatre, the Municipal Market, the Historical Institute Museum and the Floriano Peixoto Palace, seat of Alagoas State government.

Castres possesses the renowned Goya Museum, created in 1840, which contains the largest collection of Spanish paintings in France.

This and " Milton dictating to his Daughters ", exhibited in 1840, were the most important of his figure paintings, of which rare class of his work the South Kensington Museum ( Sheepshanks Collection ) ( now the V & A contains two specimens, ' Anne Page and Slender ' and ' Falstaff and Simple.

DR. John Edward Gray of the British Museum purchased penny blocks for the first time in May, 1840 and kept in his possession.

He entered the British Museum in 1840 as an assistant in the Antiquities Department.

* Le Colloque de Poissy ( 1840 ), at the Luxembourg Museum in Paris

* Penn's Treaty With the Indians, c. 1830 – 1840, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas

* Heroism and Humanity ( Robert the Bruce with soldiers ) ( 1840 Kelvingrove Museum )

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.

He was the author of editions of Theocritus ( 1820 ), of the Vatican fragments of Polybius ( 1829 ), of the Omiutractatus of Dio Chrysostom ( 1840 ) and of numerous essays in the Rheinisches Museum and Bibliotheca critica nova, of which he was one of the founders.

In 1840, Kimball travelled just twenty miles northwest to the new mill city, Lowell, MA and founded the Lowell Museum.

Besides his literary work, he occupied posts such as State Treasurer ( succeeding his father ), a member of the Committee on the censorship of theatrical works ( in 1846 ), and Director of the Public Library and Museum ( 1840 – 1847 ).

In 1840, Lincoln became engaged to Mary Todd, who was from a wealthy slave-holding family in Lexington, Kentucky.

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.