Explore 510 historical events from 1840–1849.
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)
Jöns Jacob Berzelius was a Swedish chemist. Berzelius is considered, along with Robert Boyle, John Dalton, and Antoine Lavoisier, to be one of the founders of modern chemistry. Ber…
Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist and academic (born 1779)
George Stephenson was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Renowned as the "Father of Railways", Stephenson was considered by the Victorians as a great example of dil…
George Stephenson, English engineer and academic (born 1781)
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,…
Phineas P. Gage (1823–1860) was an American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable[B1] survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely …
An explosion drove an iron rod through the head of railroad foreman Phineas Gage; his survival and recovery influenced…
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.
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)
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 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
On July 12, 1847, a riot occurred in Woodstock, New Brunswick, between Catholics and Protestant members of the Orange Order. The violence resulted in the deaths of up to ten indivi…
A riot occurs in Woodstock, New Brunswick, between Catholics and members of the Orange Order that results in up to ten…
Brigham Young was an American religious leader and politician. He was the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in 1877. He …
After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the…
Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, …
Liberia declares its independence from the United States. France and the United Kingdom are the first to recognize the…
Wilhelm Karl Joseph Killing was a German mathematician who made important contributions to the theories of Lie algebras, Lie groups, and non-Euclidean geometry.
Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician and academic (died 1923)
George Washington Ball was an American lawyer and politician from the state of Iowa. He served in the Iowa General Assembly as Representative of Johnson County and later as State S…
George Washington Ball, American legislator from Iowa (died 1915)
Jørgine Anna Sverdrup "Gina" Krog was a Norwegian suffragist, teacher, liberal politician, writer and editor, and a major figure in liberal feminism in Scandinavia.
Gina Krog, Norwegian suffragist and women's rights activist (died 1916)