Explore 350 historical events from 1840–1849.
Ernst Otto Schlick was a German naval engineer. He tried to solve the problem of rolling of ships at sea by installing large gyroscopes. The gyroscopic "stabilizers" gave disappoin…
Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer and author (died 1913)
Georg Karl Maria von Seidlitz was a German doctor and entomologist. He was a zoology teacher in Dorpat (1868–77), then in Königsberg, (1877–88), where he became a fishery expert. H…
Georg Karl Maria Seidlitz, German entomologist and academic (died 1917)
Hannah Webster Foster was an American novelist.
Hannah Webster Foster, American journalist and author (born 1758)
José María Tranquilino Francisco de Jesús Velasco Gómez Obregón, generally known as José María Velasco, was a 19th-century Mexican polymath, most famous as a painter who made Mexic…
José María Velasco Gómez, Mexican painter and academic (died 1912)
Jean-Jacques Lartigue, S.S., was a Canadian Sulpician, who served as the first Catholic Bishop of Montreal.
Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Canadian bishop (born 1777)
Baron Siméon Denis Poisson was a French mathematician and physicist who worked on statistics, complex analysis, partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, analytic…
Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (born 1781)
Francisco José de Paula Santander y Omaña was a Neogranadine military and political leader who served as Vice-President of Gran Colombia between 1819 and 1826, and was later electe…
Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian general and politician, 4th President of the Republic of the New Granada (born 1
Caspar David Friedrich was a German Romantic landscape painter], generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti-classical w…
Caspar David Friedrich, German painter and educator (born 1774)
Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith was a British naval officer and politician. Serving in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, he rose to th…
Sidney Smith, English admiral and politician (born 1764)
Niccolò Paganini was an Italian violinist and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique. …
Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (born 1782)
Frederick William III was King of Prussia from 16 November 1797 until his death in 1840. He was concurrently Elector of Brandenburg in the Holy Roman Empire until 6 August 1806, wh…
Frederick William III of Prussia (born 1770)
Pierre Claude François Daunou was a French statesman of the French Revolution and Empire. An author and historian, he served as the nation's archivist under both the Empire and the…
Pierre Claude François Daunou, French historian and politician (born 1761)
Lucien Bonaparte, 1st Prince of Canino and Musignano, was a French politician and diplomat of the French Revolution and the Consulate. He served as Minister of the Interior from 17…
Lucien Bonaparte, French prince (born 1775)
Sir George Pocock, 1st Baronet was an English politician and peer who served as MP for Bridgwater from 1796 till 1806 and 1807 till 1820.
Sir George Pocock, 1st Baronet, English politician and peer (died 1840)