Page 5: Historical Events In 1840

Oct 05   On this day in history fran Gerbic, composer   

Oct 07   Willem I resigns as king of Netherlands in the year 1840.   

Oct 08   1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed in the year 1840.   

Oct 08   First Hawaiian constitution proclaimed on this day in history.   

Oct 12   Helena Modjeska, Poland, Shakespearian actress (Juliet)/anti-Russian on this day in history.   

Oct 14   Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta in the year 1840.   

Oct 30   On this day in history carlotta Patti, Italian soprano   

Nov 12   On this day in history auguste Rodin, France, sculptor (Kiss, Thinker)   

Nov 12   In the year 1840 the birth of Auguste Rodin, French sculptor   

Nov 14   Claude Monet, France, impressionist (Water Lilies) on this day in history.   

Nov 14   In the year 1840 the birth of Claude Monet, French painter   

Nov 15   In the year 1840 aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet/friend of Tsjaikovski [NS=11/27]   

Nov 16   On this day in history frederick Scotson Clark, composer   

Nov 21   Victoria, Empress of Germany/Queen of Prussia in the year 1840.   

Nov 24   In the year 1840 cornelis RT Krayenhoff, fortress architect/cartographer, dies at 82   

Nov 25   On this day in history hugo Verriest, Flemish author/poet (Flemish Movement)   

Nov 27   Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet/friend of Tsjaikovski [OS=11/15] in the year 1840.   

Dec 01   In the year 1840 plague in Dalmatia   

Dec 01   Smallpox in South Africa in the year 1840.   

Dec 02   On this day in history gaetano Donizetti's opera "La Favorita," premieres in Paris   

Dec 02   The opera "Die Favoritin" is produced (Paris) in the year 1840.   

Dec 07   Hermann Goetz, composer on this day in history.   

Dec 11   Kemal Bey, Turkey, poet/author (Fatherland-1872) on this day in history.   

Dec 17   Christian Frederik Emil Horneman, composer in the year 1840.   

Dec 21   Mehmed N Kemal, Turkish journalist (Vatan) in the year 1840.   

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Jan 03   Father Joseph Damien de Veuster, Belgium, helped lepers in Hawaii was born on this day in history.   

Jan 05   John Doby Kennedy, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 was born on this day in history.   

Jan 10   Louis Nazaire Bégin, French Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d. 1925) was born in the year 1840.   

Jan 18   Austin Dobson, England, poet/critic/biographer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 18   In the year 1840 birth of ernst Rudorff, composer   

Jan 21   In the year 1840 birth of sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, pioneer English woman physician   

Jan 22   Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (d. 1907) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 23   On this day in history birth of ernst Abbe, Germany, physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company)   

Jan 06   Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (b. 1752) died on this day in history.   

Jan 22   Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752) died in the year 1840.   

Mar 02   Heinrich Olbers, German astronomer (comets & asteroids), dies at 81 on this day in history.   

Mar 12   Friedrich Westenholz, composer, dies at 61 on this day in history.   

Mar 22   In the year 1840 death of Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (b. 1798)   

Mar 28   Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician, dies at 89 on this day in history.   

Mar 30   On this day in history george (Beau) Brummell, Dandy, dies   

Apr 19   On this day in history death of jean-Jacques Lartigue, Roman catholic bishop of Montreal (b. 1777)