Explore 510 historical events from 1840–1849.
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)
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)
Étienne Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald, 1st duc de Tarente, was a Marshal of the Empire and military leader during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.
Jacques MacDonald, French general (born 1765)
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia y Velasco, also known as Doctor Francia or to Paraguayans of his time as Karai Guasu, was a lawyer, politician, statesman and the first dictator (1…
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, Consul of Paraguay (born 1766)