Explore 629 historical events from 1840–1849.
Gustave Léon Schlumberger was a French historian and numismatist who specialised in the era of the crusades and the Byzantine Empire. His Numismatique de l'Orient Latin (1878–82) i…
Gustave Schlumberger, French historian (died 1929)
Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame aux Camélias by Alexand…
Sarah Bernhardt, French actress and manager (died 1923)
Philip Henry Wicksteed was an English scholar and Unitarian theologian known for his contributions to classics, medieval studies and economics. He was also a Georgist and literary …
Philip Wicksteed, English economist (died 1927)
Klas Pontus Arnoldson was a Swedish author, journalist, politician, and committed pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908 with Fredrik Bajer. He was a founding member o…
Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1916)
Richard McCarty was an American politician from New York.
Richard McCarty, American lawyer and politician (born 1780)
Abbate Giuseppe Baini was an Italian priest, music critic, conductor, and composer of church music.
Giuseppe Baini, Italian priest and composer (born 1775)
Thomas Campbell was a Scottish poet at the intersection of the neoclassical with the Romantic style of British poetry.
Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet and academic (born 1777)
Hyrum Smith was an American religious leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement. He was the older brother of t…
Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (born 1800)
Yevgeny Abramovich Baratynsky was a Russian poet. He was lauded by Alexander Pushkin as the finest Russian elegiac poet. After a long period when his reputation was on the wane, Ba…
Yevgeny Baratynsky, Russian philosopher and poet (born 1800)
Claude Charles Fauriel was a French historian, philologist and critic.
Claude Charles Fauriel, French philologist and historian (born 1772)
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition". He was a colleague of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and expanded and defende…
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French zoologist and biologist (born 1772)
Joseph Smith Jr. was an American religious and political leader and the founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. Publishing the Book of Mormon at the age of 24, Smit…
Joseph Smith, American religious leader, founded the Latter Day Saint movement (born 1805)
John Dalton was an English chemist, physicist, and meteorologist whose work laid the foundations of modern atomic theory and stoichiometric chemistry. Building on earlier ideas abo…
John Dalton, English physicist, meteorologist, and chemist (born 1776)
Joseph Bonaparte, regnal name José I, was a French statesman, lawyer, diplomat and older brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1806, Napoleon made him King of Naples, and then King of …
Joseph Bonaparte, French diplomat and brother of Napoleon (born 1768)
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, also known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Jr., was the youngest child of six born to composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his wife Constanze and the younge…
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1791)
Jacob Aall was a Norwegian politician, historian, landowner and government economist.
Jacob Aall, Norwegian economist, historian, and politician (born 1773)
José María Coppinger was a Spanish soldier who served in the infantry of the Royal Spanish Army (Ejército de Tierra) and governed East Florida (1816–1821) and several areas in Cuba…
José María Coppinger, governor of Spanish East Florida (born 1733)
Edmund Ignatius Rice, F.P.M., C.F.C. was a Catholic missionary and educationalist who founded two institutes of religious brothers: the Congregation of Christian Brothers and the P…
Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish missionary and educator, founded the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (born…
Count Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy was a Russian general and statesman who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and politician (born 1769)
Shiraz is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars province, which is historically known by the exonym Persia proper. As of the 2016 national census, the popula…
In Shiraz, Iran, the Báb declared himself to be a messenger of God to Mullá Husayn, leading to the foundation of Bábism,
The Báb was an Iranian religious leader who founded Bábism, and is also one of the central figures of the Baháʼí Faith. The Báb gradually and progressively revealed his claim in hi…
A merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement
The great auk, also known as the garefowl or penguin, is an extinct species of flightless alcid that first appeared around 400,000 years ago and was driven to extinction by human e…
The last known pair of great auks (one pictured), the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus of flightless birds, we
Julia Gardiner Tyler was the first lady of the United States from June 26, 1844, to March 4, 1845, as the second wife of President John Tyler. A member of the influential Gardiner …
Julia Gardiner (pictured) married U
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel was a German astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geodesist. He was the first astronomer who determined reliable values for the distance from the Sun …
From measurements of its motion, German astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel deduced that Sirius, the brightest star in…