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[[File:Penny Black Block of six.jpeg|thumb|250px|[[May 6]]: The world's first [[postage stamp]]s are introduced.]]
[[File:Victoria Marriage01.jpg|thumb|250px|[[February 10]]: Queen Victoria of Britain marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.]]
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[[File:Awful conflagration of the steam boat Lexington.jpg|thumb|right| [[January 13]]: Steamship ''Lexington'' sinks.]]
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* [[February 11]] – [[Gaetano Donizetti]]'s opera ''[[La fille du régiment]]'' premieres in Paris.
* [[March 1]] – [[Adolphe Thiers]] becomes prime minister of [[July Monarchy|France]].
* [[March 4]] – [[Alexander S. Wolcott (inventor)|Alexander S. Wolcott]] and [[John Johnson (inventor)|Johnopen Johnson]]the openworld's first commercial photography portrait studio, their ''Daguerreian Parlor'', on [[Broadway (Manhattan)|Broadway]], thein world's first commercial photography portrait studio[[Manhattan]].
* [[March 9]] – The [[Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad]] is completed, from [[Wilmington, North Carolina]] to [[Weldon, North Carolina]]. At {{convert|161.5|mi|km}}, it is the world's longest railroad.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historync.org/railroad-WWRR.htm|title=Railroad — Wilmington & Raleigh (later Weldon)|work=North Carolina Business History|year=2006|access-date=2011-12-02}}</ref>
* [[March 12]] – [[Paweł Strzelecki]] reaches [[Australia]]'s highest summit, [[Mount Kosciuszko]].
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* [[June 7]] – On the death of [[Frederick William III of Prussia]], he is succeeded on the throne of the [[Kingdom of Prussia]] (which he has ruled for more than 40 years) by his eldest son [[Frederick William IV of Prussia|Frederick William IV]].
* [[June 12]]–[[June 23|23]] – The [[World Anti-Slavery Convention]] is organised by the [[British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society]], at [[Exeter Hall]] in London, England. Arguments over the exclusion of women from the convention have important ramifications for the movement for [[women's suffrage in the United States]].
* [[June 18]] – [[Maria massacre|''Maria'' massacre]]: British [[brigantine]] ''Maria'' is wrecked off [[South Australia]]. All 26 passengers and crew make it to the shore but none survive the trek to safety over the following two weeks, most being massacred by [[Aboriginal Australians]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://firstsourcesguide.com/uploads/3/2/4/6/3246279/case_study_-_wreck_of_the_maria.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001182534/http://firstsourcesguide.com/uploads/3/2/4/6/3246279/case_study_-_wreck_of_the_maria.pdf|archive-date=2018-10-01|accessdate=2024-08-14|title=Wreck of the ''Maria'' Incident|publisher=First Sources}}</ref>
 
=== July–September ===
[[File:RMS Britannia 1840 paddlewheel.jpg|thumb|right|[[July 4]]: {{RMS|Britannia}}]]
* [[July 4]] – The [[Cunard Line]]'s 700-[[ton]] wooden paddlewheel steamer {{RMS|Britannia}} departs from [[Liverpool]], bound for [[Halifax, Nova Scotia]], on the first steam transatlantic passenger mail service.<ref>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=263–264|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[July 15]] – The [[Austrian Empire]], the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]], the [[Kingdom of Prussia]], and the [[Russian Empire]] sign the [[Convention of London (1840)|Convention of London]] with the [[Sublime Porte]], ruler of the [[Ottoman Empire]].
* [[July 21]] – [[August Borsig]]'s [[steam locomotive]], the first built in [[German Confederation|Germany]], competes against a [[George Stephenson|Stephenson]]-built locomotive on the [[Anhalt Railway|Berlin–Jüterbog railroad]]; the Borsig locomotive wins by 10 minutes.
* [[July 23]]
** [[Pedro II of Brazil|Pedro II]] is declared "of age" prematurely, and begins to reassert central control in [[Empire of Brazil|Brazil]].
** The [[Province of Canada]] is created by the [[Act of Union 1840|Act of Union]].
* [[August 1]] – TheRemaining former slaves in the [[SlaveryBritish Abolition ActEmpire]] endsare thereleased slavefrom tradeapprenticeships inunder terms of the [[UnitedSlavery Abolition Act Kingdom1833]].
* [[August 10]] – [[Fortsas hoax]]: A number of book collectors gather in [[Binche]], Belgium, to attend a non-existent book auction of the late ''"Count of Fortsas''".
* [[September 10]] – Ottoman and British troops bombard [[Beirut]], and land troops on the coast, to pressure [[Egypt Eyalet|Egypt]]ian Muhammad Ali to retreat from the country.
* [[September 16]] – [[Joseph Strutt (philanthropist)|Joseph Strutt]] hands over the deeds and papers concerning the [[Derby Arboretum]], which is to become England's first public park.
* [[September 30]] – The French frigate [[French ship Belle Poule (18281834)|''Belle-Poule'']] arrives in Cherbourg, bringing back the remains of [[Napoleon]] from [[Saint Helena]] to [[July Monarchy|France]].
 
=== October–December ===
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* The first English translation of Goethe's ''[[Theory of Colours]]'' by [[Charles Lock Eastlake|Charles Eastlake]] is published.
* The first known photograph of [[Niagara Falls]], a [[daguerreotype]], is taken by English chemist [[Hugh Lee Pattinson]].
* [[Kajima]], a [[construction]] company based in Japan, is founded in [[Edo (Tokyo)|Edo]] (modern-day [[Tokyo]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kajima.co.jp/english/prof/outline/index.html|title=Corporate Data|publisher=Kajima Corporation|access-date=2021-01-11}}</ref>
* Approximate date – [[Volcanic eruption]] of [[Tinakula]] in the [[Solomon Islands]] causes the island to be depopulated.
 
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[[File:Porträt des Komponisten Pjotr I. Tschaikowski (1840-1893).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]]]
[[File:Princess Charlotte of Belgium, Empress of Mexico.jpg|thumb|110px|Empress [[Carlota of Mexico]]]]
* [[January 1]] – [[Dugald Drummond]], BritishScottish-born railway engineerlocomotive designer (d. [[1912]])
* [[January 3]] – [[Father Damien]], Belgian missionary priest (d. [[1889]])
* [[January 9]] – [[Samuel Baldwin Marks Young]], American general, first [[Chief of Staff of the United States Army]] (d. [[1924]])
* [[January 18]] – [[Alfred Percy Sinnett]], British[[English people|English]] writer and theosophist (d. [[1921]])
* [[January 21]] – [[Sophia Jex-Blake]], [[England|English]] [[physician]] (d. 1912)
* [[January 22]] – [[Ernest Roland Wilberforce]], English bishop (d. [[1907]])
* [[January 23]] – [[Ernst Abbe]], German physicist (d. [[1905]])
* [[February 5]]
* [[February 4]] – [[Hiram Stevens Maxim|Sir Hiram Maxim]], American-born British firearms inventor (d. [[1916]])
* [[February 5]] –* [[John Boyd Dunlop]], Scottish-born inventor (d. [[1921]])
** [[February 4]] – [[Hiram Stevens Maxim|Sir Hiram Maxim]], American-born British firearms inventor (d. [[1916]])
* [[February 9]] – [[William T. Sampson]], American admiral (d. [[1902]])
* [[February 15]] – [[Titu Maiorescu]], 23rd Prime Minister of Romania (d. [[1917]])
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* [[July 1]] – [[Edward Clodd]], English banker, writer and anthropologist (d. [[1930]])
* [[July 6]] – [[Peter Conover Hains]], major general in the [[United States Army]], and veteran of the [[American Civil War]], [[Spanish–American War]], and [[First World War]] (d. [[1921]])
* [[August 1]] - [[Franz Simandl]], Double bassist and pedagogue (d. [[1912]])
* [[August 4]] – [[Richard von Krafft-Ebing]], German sexologist (d. [[1902]])
* [[September 12]] – [[Mary Jane Patterson]], the first African-American woman to receive a B.A degree in 1862. (d. [[1894]])
* [[September 22]] – [[D. M. Canright]], American Seventh-day Adventist minister and author, later one of the church's severest critics (d. [[1919]])
* [[September 25]] – [[William N. Roach]], American politician and member of the [[United States Senate]] from 1893 to 1899 (d. [[1902]])
* [[September 27]]
** [[Alfred Thayer Mahan]], United States Navy admiral, American geostrategist and historian (d. [[1914]])
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