Explore 350 historical events from 1840–1849.
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movem…
Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (died 1903)
Geevarghese Mar Gregorios of Parumala, also known as Parumala Thirumeni, was a Metropolitan of the Malankara Church. Parumala Thirumeni became the first person of Indian origin to …
Gheevarghese Mar Gregorios of Parumala, Indian bishop and saint (died 1902)
Thomas Henry Tracy was a Canadian architect and alderman. Born in London, Upper Canada, to Irish immigrants, Tracy was apprenticed to William Robinson for five years beginning in 1…
Thomas Henry Tracy, Canadian architect and alderman (died 1925)
Robert I was the last sovereign Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1854 until 1859, when the duchy was annexed to Sardinia-Piedmont during the Risorgimento. He was a member of the Hou…
Robert I, Duke of Parma (died 1907)
Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto was an Italian polymath, whose areas of interest included sociology, civil engineering, economics, political science, and philosophy. He made severa…
Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist (died 1923)
William Gilbert Grace was an English cricketer who is widely held to have been one of the sport's all-time greatest players. Always known by his initials as "WG", his first-class c…
W. G. Grace, English cricketer and physician (died 1915)
Adolphus Frederick V was reigning grand duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1904 to 1914.
Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (died 1914)
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. He also later s…
Arthur Balfour, Scottish-English lieutenant and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1930)
Baron Loránd Eötvös de Vásárosnamény, also called Baron Roland von Eötvös in English literature, was a Hungarian physicist. He is remembered today largely for his work on gravitati…
Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist and politician, Minister of Education of Hungary (died 1919)
Friedrich Ernst Dorn was a German physicist. He is best remembered for his discovery that radium emits a radioactive substance, later named radon.
Friedrich Ernst Dorn, German physicist (died 1916)
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)
Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este was an Electress of Bavaria as the second wife of Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria.
Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este, Electress of Bavaria (born 1776)
François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who influenced French literature of the 19th century. Descended from an old aristocr…
François-René de Chateaubriand, French historian and politician (born 1768)
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
The June Days were an uprising staged by French workers from 22 to 26 June 1848. It was in response to plans to close the National Workshops, created by the Second Republic in orde…
French authorities suppressed the June Days uprising, in which workers rioted in response to plans to close the National
The June Days were an uprising staged by French workers from 22 to 26 June 1848. It was in response to plans to close the National Workshops, created by the Second Republic in orde…
French authorities suppressed the June Days uprising (pictured), in which workers rioted in response to plans to close…
Waterloo station, also known as London Waterloo, is a major central London railway terminus on the National Rail network in the United Kingdom, in the Waterloo area of the London B…
Waterloo Bridge Station, which later became Britain's busiest railway station by passenger usage, was opened by the…
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. Its organizers advertised it as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights …
The two-day Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's-rights and feminist convention held in the United States,…
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
Richard March Hoe was an American inventor from New York City who designed a rotary printing press identical to Josiah Warren's original invention, and related advancements, includ…
Richard March Hoe, American inventor, patented the rotary-type printing press.