Page 5: Historical Events In 1840

Oct 05   Fran Gerbic, composer in the year 1840.   

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

Oct 08   On this day in history 1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed   

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

Oct 12   Helena Modjeska, Poland, Shakespearian actress (Juliet)/anti-Russian in the year 1840.   

Oct 14   Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta on this day in history.   

Oct 30   Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano on this day in history.   

Nov 12   Auguste Rodin, France, sculptor (Kiss, Thinker) on this day in history.   

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   Frederick Scotson Clark, composer on this day in history.   

Nov 21   On this day in history victoria, Empress of Germany/Queen of Prussia   

Nov 24   Cornelis RT Krayenhoff, fortress architect/cartographer, dies at 82 on this day in history.   

Nov 25   Hugo Verriest, Flemish author/poet (Flemish Movement) on this day in history.   

Nov 27   Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet/friend of Tsjaikovski [OS=11/15] on this day in history.   

Dec 01   Plague in Dalmatia in the year 1840.   

Dec 01   On this day in history smallpox in South Africa   

Dec 02   In the year 1840 gaetano Donizetti's opera "La Favorita," premieres in Paris   

Dec 02   In the year 1840 the opera "Die Favoritin" is produced (Paris)   

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

Dec 11   On this day in history kemal Bey, Turkey, poet/author (Fatherland-1872)   

Dec 17   In the year 1840 christian Frederik Emil Horneman, composer   

Dec 21   In the year 1840 mehmed N Kemal, Turkish journalist (Vatan)   

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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   In the year 1840 birth of john Doby Kennedy, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896   

Jan 10   Louis Nazaire Bégin, French Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d. 1925) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 18   On this day in history birth of austin Dobson, England, poet/critic/biographer   

Jan 18   On this day in history birth of ernst Rudorff, composer   

Jan 21   On this day in history birth of sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, pioneer English woman physician   

Jan 22   Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (d. 1907) was born in the year 1840.   

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   On this day in history friedrich Westenholz, composer, dies at 61   

Mar 22   Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (b. 1798) died on this day in history.   

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

Mar 30   George (Beau) Brummell, Dandy, dies on this day in history.   

Apr 19   In the year 1840 death of jean-Jacques Lartigue, Roman catholic bishop of Montreal (b. 1777)