Explore 629 historical events from 1840–1849.
Heinrich Picot de Peccaduc, Freiherr von Herzogenberg was an Austrian composer and conductor descended from a French aristocratic family.
Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (died 1900)
Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repert…
Edvard Grieg, Norwegian pianist and composer (died 1907)
Mary Sibbet Copley Thaw was an American philanthropist and charity worker.
Mary Sibbet Copley, American philanthropist (died 1929)
Paul Heinrich Ritter von Groth was a German mineralogist. His most important contribution to science was his systematic classification of minerals based on their chemical compositi…
Paul Heinrich von Groth, German scientist (died 1927)
Sir Ernest Mason Satow, was a British diplomat, scholar and Japanologist. He is better known in Japan, where he was known as Satō Ainosuke , than in Britain or the other countries …
Ernest Mason Satow, English orientalist and diplomat (died 1929)
Sir John William Downer, KCMG, KC was an Australian politician who served two terms as Premier of South Australia, from 1885 to 1887 and again from 1892 to 1893. He later entered f…
John Downer, Australian politician, 16th Premier of South Australia (died 1915)
Sir David Gill was a Scottish astronomer who spent most of his career as H.M. Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope. He was born in Aberdeen, trained as a watch and clock-maker, and …
David Gill, Scottish-English astronomer and author (died 1914)
Camillo Golgi was an Italian biologist and pathologist who was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his works on the central nervous system. He studied medici…
Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1926)
Virgil Walter Earp was an American lawman. He was both deputy U.S. marshal and the city marshal of Tombstone, in the Arizona Territory when he led his younger brothers Wyatt and Mo…
Virgil Earp, American marshal (died 1905)
Johannes Friedrich Heinrich Schmidt was a German linguist. He developed the Wellentheorie of language development.
Johannes Schmidt, German linguist and academic (died 1901)
Peter Rosegger was an Austrian writer and poet from Krieglach in the province of Styria. He was a son of a mountain farmer and grew up in the woodlands and mountains of Alpl. Roseg…
Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and author (died 1918)
Robert Todd Lincoln was an American lawyer and businessman. He was the eldest son of President Abraham Lincoln and First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and the only one of their four child…
Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War (died 1926)
James Scott Skinner was a Scottish dancing master, violinist, fiddler and composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential fiddlers in Scottish traditional music, and w…
James Scott Skinner, Scottish violinist and composer (died 1927)
Cyrus Ingerson Scofield was an American theologian, minister, and writer whose best-selling annotated Bible popularized futurism and dispensationalism among fundamentalist Christia…
C. I. Scofield, American minister and theologian (died 1921)
William Southam was a Canadian newspaper publisher.
William Southam, Canadian publisher (died 1932)
Boyd Dunlop Morehead was a politician in Queensland, Australia. He was Premier of Queensland from November 1888 to June 1890.
Boyd Dunlop Morehead, Australian politician, 10th Premier of Queensland (died 1905)
David Bennett Hill was an American politician from New York. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 29th governor of New York from 1885 to 1891 and represented New York…
David B. Hill, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of New York (died 1910)
Georg Friedrich Karl Freiherr von Hertling, from 1914 Count von Hertling, was a German politician of the Catholic Centre Party. He was foreign minister and minister president of Ba…
Georg von Hertling, German academic and politician, 7th Chancellor of the German Empire (died 1919)
Lola Rodríguez de Tió was a Puerto Rican woman who established herself a reputation as a great poet throughout all of Latin America. A believer in women's rights, she was also comm…
Lola Rodríguez de Tió, Puerto Rican poet, abolitionist, and women's rights activist (died 1924)
Joseph Furphy was an Australian author and poet. He mostly wrote under the pseudonym Tom Collins and is best known for his novel Such Is Life (1903), regarded as an Australian clas…
Joseph Furphy, Australian author and poet (died 1912)
Gaston Tarry was a French mathematician. Born in Villefranche de Rouergue, Aveyron, he studied mathematics at high school before joining the civil service in Algeria. He pursued ma…
Gaston Tarry, French mathematician and academic (died 1913)
Mikhail Dmitriyevich Skobelev was a Russian general that became famous for his conquest of Central Asia and for his heroism during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878. Dressed in a …
Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (died 1882)
Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas, OP was a Palestinian Catholic nun who founded the Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary of Jerusalem, the first Palestinian religious congregati…
Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas, Palestinian nun and Catholic Saint (died 1927)
James Leigh Strachan-Davidson was an English classical scholar, academic administrator, translator, and author of books on Roman history. He was Master of Balliol College, Oxford, …
James Strachan-Davidson, English classical scholar, academic administrator, translator, and author (died 1916)