Explore 158 historical events from 1840–1849.
In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English …
Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany
The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, was an invasion of Mexico by the United Stat…
Mexican–American War: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada,
Kandukuri Veeresalingam was a social reformer and writer from the Madras Presidency, British India, current Andhra Pradesh. He was considered as the Father of the Telugu Renaissanc…
Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian author and activist (died 1919)
Eilert Adelsteen Normann was a Norwegian painter who worked in Berlin. He was a noted painter of landscapes of Norway. Normann was the artist who invited Edvard Munch to Berlin, wh…
Adelsteen Normann, Norwegian painter (died 1919)
Henry Edward Armstrong FRS FRSE (Hon) was a British chemist. Although Armstrong was active in many areas of scientific research, such as the chemistry of naphthalene derivatives, h…
Henry Edward Armstrong, English chemist and academic (died 1937)
Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov was a Russian painter and draughtsman who specialised in mythological and historical subjects. He is considered a co-founder of Russian folklorist and…
Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter and illustrator (died 1926)
Carl Wernicke was a German physician, anatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist. He is known for his influential research into the pathological effects of specific forms of ence…
Carl Wernicke, German neuropathologist
Raja Ravi Varma was an Indian painter. His works are one of the best examples of the fusion of European academic art with a purely Indian sensibility and iconography. He greatly en…
Raja Ravi Varma, Indian painter and academic (died 1906)
Fritz von Uhde was a German painter of genre and religious subjects. His style lay in-between Realism and Impressionism, he was once known as "Germany's outstanding impressionist" …
Fritz von Uhde, German painter and educator (died 1911)
Karl Wilhelm Otto Lilienthal was a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the "flying man". He was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful flights wi…
Otto Lilienthal, German pilot and engineer (died 1896)
Johann Baptist Singenberger was a Swiss composer, music teacher, editor and publisher. Much of his output was devoted to Catholic liturgical music. He was reckoned to have taught o…
Johann Baptist Singenberger, Swiss composer, educator, and publisher (died 1924)
Chester Ashley was an American politician who represented Arkansas in the United States Senate from 1844 until his sudden death in 1848.
Chester Ashley, American politician (born 1790)
Tom Cribb was an English bare-knuckle boxer of the 19th century. He was All England Champion from 1808 to 1822.
Tom Cribb, English boxer (born 1781)
Baroness Anna Elisabeth Franziska Adolphine Wilhelmine Louise Maria von Droste zu Hülshoff, known as Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, was a 19th-century German Biedermeier poet, noveli…
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German author and composer (born 1797)
Eugénie de Guérin was a French writer and the sister of the poet Maurice de Guérin.
Eugénie de Guérin, French author (born 1805)
The National Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral French Parliament under the Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate. The National Assembly's legislators are know…
The French National Assembly under Victor Schœlcher proclaims the abolition of slavery within France and it's colonies f
The Benty Grange helmet is an Anglo-Saxon boar-crested helmet from the 7th century AD. It was excavated by Thomas Bateman in 1848 from a tumulus at the Benty Grange farm in Monyash…
The Benty Grange helmet, a boar-crested Anglo-Saxon helmet with parallels to those mentioned in the contemporary epic po
Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand. The Māori are descended from East Polynesian settlers who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of canoe voyag…
Shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand Wars
The Battle of Cerro Gordo, or Battle of Sierra Gordo, was an engagement in the Mexican–American War on April 18, 1847. The battle saw Winfield Scott's United States troops outflank…
American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico
Hans Wilhelm Auer was a Swiss-Austrian architect best known for his design of the Swiss Bundeshaus (1894–1902) in Bern.
Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect, designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland (died 1906)
Carl Joachim Andersen was a Danish flutist, conductor and composer born in Copenhagen, son of the flutist Christian Joachim Andersen. Both as a virtuoso and as composer of flute mu…
Joachim Andersen, Danish flautist, composer and conductor (died 1907)
Henry Demarest Lloyd was an American journalist and political activist who was a prominent muckraker during the Progressive Era. He is best known for his exposés of Standard Oil wh…
Henry Demarest Lloyd, American journalist and politician (died 1903)
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian, was a British Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from March 1894 t…
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1929)
The Guarded Domains of Iran, commonly known as Qajar Iran, was the Iranian state under the rule of the Qajar dynasty, which lasted from 1789 to 1925. It was founded by Agha Mohamma…
Qajar Iran and the Ottoman Empire determine their international boundary in the second treaty of Erzurum