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The 1840s (pronounced "eighteen-forties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1840, and ended on December 31, 1849. The decade was noted in Europe for featuring the largely unsuccessful Revolutions of 1848, also known as the Springtime of Nations.
Gli anni 1840 sono il decennio che comprende gli anni dal 1840 al 1849 inclusi. Eventi, invenzioni e scoperte. Kierkegaard pubblica Aut aut e Timore e tremore. 1840: Alessandro Manzoni pubblica la seconda edizione de I promessi sposi. 1842: Giuseppe Verdi compone il Nabucco.
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January–March
1. January 3 – One of the predecessor papers of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia, The Port Phillip Herald, is founded. 2. January 10 – Uniform Penny Postis introduced in the United Kingdom. 3. January 13 – The steamship Lexington burns and sinks in icy waters, four miles off the coast of Long Island; 139 die, only four survive. 4. January 19 – Captain Charles Wilkes' United States Exploring Expedition sights what becomes known as Wilkes Landin the southeast quadrant of Antarctica, claim...
April–June
1. April – The Raleigh and Gaston Railroad is completed from Raleigh to near Weldon, North Carolina. 2. April 2 – The Washingtonian movement for teetotalism is founded by a group of alcoholics in Baltimore, Maryland. 3. April 3 – Johnny Appleseed meets Abraham Lincoln, and plants apple trees in New York City. 4. April 15 – King's College Hospitalopens in London. 5. May 1 – Britain issues the Penny Black, the world's first postage stamp; it becomes valid for the pre-payment of postage from May...
July–September
1. July 4 – The Cunard Line's 700-ton wooden paddlewheel steamer RMS Britannia departs from Liverpool, bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the first steam transatlantic passenger mail service. 2. July 15 – The Austrian Empire, the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Russian Empire sign the Convention of London with the Sublime Porte, ruler of the Ottoman Empire. 3. July 21 – August Borsig's steam locomotive, the first built in Germany, competes against a Stephenson-built locomotive...
January–June
1. January 1 – Dugald Drummond, British railway engineer (d. 1912) 2. January 3 – Father Damien, Belgian missionary priest (d. 1889) 3. January 9 – Samuel Baldwin Marks Young, American general, first Chief of Staff of the United States Army (d. 1924) 4. January 18 – Alfred Percy Sinnett, British writer (d. 1921) 5. January 21 – Sophia Jex-Blake, English physician(d. 1912) 6. January 22 – Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (d. 1907) 7. January 23 – Ernst Abbe, German physicist (d. 1905)...
July–December
1. July 1 – Edward Clodd, English banker, writer and anthropologist (d. 1930) 2. July 6 – Peter Conover Hains, major general in the United States Army, and veteran of the American Civil War, Spanish–American War, and First World War (d. 1921) 3. August 4 – Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German sexologist (d. 1902) 4. September 12 – Mary Jane Patterson, the first African-American woman to receive a B.A degree in 1862. (d. 1894) 5. September 22 – D. M. Canright, American Seventh-day Adventist minist...
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1. earliest probable date – Crazy Horse (Tȟašúŋke Witkó), Chief of the Oglala Lakota (k. 1877)
January–June
1. January 6 – Fanny Burney, English novelist (b. 1752) 2. January 22 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752) 3. February 13 – Nicolas Joseph Maison, French marshal, Minister of War (b. 1770) 4. March 11 – George Wolf, American politician (b. 1777) 5. March 17 – Lady Lucy Whitmore, English noblewoman and hymnwriter (b. 1792) 6. April 12 – Franz Anton von Gerstner, Austrian railway engineer (b. 1796) 7. April 25 – Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician, geometer, and...
July–December
1. July 7 – Nikolai Stankevich, Russian philosopher, poet (b. 1813) 2. August 25 – Karl Leberecht Immermann, German novelist, dramatist (b. 1796) 3. September 11 – John Gabriel Perboyre, French Catholic missionary, martyr in China (b. 1802) 4. September 14 – Joseph Smith, Sr., American father of Joseph Smith, Jr. (b. 1771) 5. September 18 – Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Constantinople-born French polymath (b. 1783) 6. September 20 – José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, first leader of independe...
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1. Haji Shariatullah, Bengali Islamic scholar (b. 1781)
Il 1840 (MDCCCXL in numeri romani) è un anno bisestile del XIX secolo . Indice. 1 Eventi. 2 Nati. 3 Morti. 3.1 Gennaio. 3.2 Febbraio. 3.3 Marzo. 3.4 Aprile. 3.5 Maggio. 3.6 Giugno. 3.7 Luglio. 3.8 Agosto. 3.9 Settembre. 3.10 Ottobre. 3.11 Novembre. 3.12 Dicembre. 3.13 Senza giorno specificato. 4 Calendario. 5 Altri progetti. Eventi.
- 2593 (MMDXCIII)
- 1246 — 1247
- 1288 — 1289
- 1840
The revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Springtime of the Peoples [2] or the Springtime of Nations, were a series of revolutions throughout Europe over the course of more than one year, from 1848 to 1849. It remains the most widespread revolutionary wave in European history to date.
- Springtime of Nations, Springtime of the Peoples, Year of Revolution
- See Events by country or region, Political change in a few countries, Significant social and cultural change
- 12 January 1848 – 4 October 1849, (1 year, 8 months, 3 weeks and 1 day)
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1840s fashion in European and European-influenced clothing is characterized by a narrow, natural shoulder line following the exaggerated puffed sleeves of the later 1820s and 1830s. The narrower shoulder was accompanied by a lower waistline for both men and women.