Explore 629 historical events from 1840–1849.
The European balance of power is a tenet in international relations that no single power should be allowed to achieve hegemony over a substantial part of Europe. During much of the…
The Great Powers of Europe conculde the convention of London in order to stabilise the Near East.
The Province of Canada was a British colony in British North America from 1841 to 1867. Its formation reflected recommendations made by John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, in the Rep…
The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
The bombardment of Beirut (1840) was a battle during the Egyptian–Ottoman War (1839–1841). It ended in an Allied victory and the city was captured.
An Anglo-Turkish force captures Beirut with the help of bombardment by an English fleet.
William II was King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Duke of Limburg from 1840 until his death.
Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
The European balance of power is a tenet in international relations that no single power should be allowed to achieve hegemony over a substantial part of Europe. During much of the…
The Great Powers of Europe conclude the convention of London in order to stabilise the Near East.
Bashir Shihab II was a Lebanese emir who ruled the Emirate of Mount Lebanon between 1788 –1840. Born to a branch of the Shihab family which had converted from Sunni Islam, the reli…
The Maronite leader Bashir Shihab II surrenders to the Ottoman Empire and later is sent to Malta in exile.
Odilon Redon was a French Symbolist draftsman, printmaker, and painter.
Odilon Redon, French painter and illustrator (died 1916)
Edward Whymper FRSE was an English mountaineer, explorer, illustrator, and author best known for the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. Four members of his climbing party were…
Edward Whymper, English-French mountaineer, explorer, author, and illustrator (died 1911)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote s…
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer and educator (died 1893)
Alejandro Gorostiaga Orrego, was a Chilean military officer born in La Serena. He joined the Escuela Militar de Chile in 1857 until his retirement in 1878. Alejandro Gorostiaga was…
Alejandro Gorostiaga, Chilean colonel (died 1912)
Louis Marie Alphonse Daudet was a French novelist. He was the husband of Julia Daudet and father of Edmée, Léon and Lucien Daudet.
Alphonse Daudet, French author, poet, and playwright (died 1897)
George Throssell was the second Premier of Western Australia. He served for just three months, from 15 February to 27 May 1901, during a period of great instability in Western Aust…
George Throssell, Irish-Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Western Australia (died 1910)
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, includin…
Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet (died 1928)
Émile Munier was a French academic artist and student of William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
Émile Munier, French artist (died 1895)
Charlotte of Belgium, known by the Spanish version of her name, Carlota, was by birth a princess of Belgium and member of the House of Wettin in the branch of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha…
Carlota of Mexico (died 1927)
Theodor Esbern Philipsen was a Danish painter of Jewish ancestry, known for landscapes and animal portraits. He also did small figures in wax and clay.
Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (died 1920)
Augusta Lundin was a Swedish fashion designer. She is considered to be the first international Swedish haute couture fashion designer as well as the first well known fashion design…
Augusta Lundin, the first international Swedish fashion designer (died 1919)
William Frederick Nast (1840–1893) was an American diplomat and entrepreneur. He was the third president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
William F
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)
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)
John Charles Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey was a British jurist and politician. After early success as a lawyer and a less successful spell as a politician, he was appointed a judge …
John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician (died 1929)
Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing was a German psychiatrist and author of the foundational work Psychopathia Sexualis (1886).
Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German-Austrian psychologist and author (died 1902)
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, sometimes spelt Wilfred, was an English poet and writer. He and his wife Lady Anne Blunt travelled in the Middle East and were instrumental in preserving the …
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet and activist (died 1922)