Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades: 1810s 1820s 1830s – 1840s – 1850s 1860s 1870s
Years: 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849
Categories: Births – Deaths – Architecture
Establishments – Disestablishments

The 1840s decade ran from January 1, 1840, to December 31, 1849.

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Politics and wars [link]

Wars [link]

Mexican-American War

Internal conflicts [link]

  • Wave of revolutions in Europe. Collectively known as the Revolution of 1848. This led to mass immigration of these refugees into industrial cities of the United States as well as to other locations around the world.

Prominent political events [link]

Technology [link]

Economics [link]

  • In the mid 1840s several harvests failed across Europe, which caused famines. Especially the Great Irish Famine (1845–1849) was severe and caused a quarter of Ireland's population to die or emigrate to the United States, Canada and Australia.
  • The Panic of 1837 triggered by the failing banks in America is followed by a severe depression lasting until 1845.
  • Introduction of the postage stamp. The first of them is Penny Black, issued by the United Kingdom on May 1, 1840.
  • The California Gold Rush follows on the heels of the Mexican-American War, bringing tens of thousands of immigrants to California and eliminating the United States' dependence on foreign gold.

Popular culture [link]

Literature and arts [link]

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Søren Kierkegaard publishes his famous philosophical book "Either/Or" in 1843.

Edgar Allan Poe releases his famous "The Raven" in 1845, earning $10 for the piece. Charlotte Bronte wrote her second novel, Jane Eyre, in 1847

The American Transcendentalism movement was in full form mostly during this decade.

Charles Dickens publishes The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, A Christmas Carol, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son and David Copperfield.

William Makepeace Thackeray publishes Vanity Fair.

Music [link]

Fashion [link]

Main article: 1840s in fashion
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People [link]

World leaders [link]

  1. Mohammad Shah Qajar, (b. 1810 – d. 1848) Shah from 1834 to 1848
  2. Nasser-al-Din Shah, 1848–1896

Sources [link]


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1840s in sociology

The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1840s.

1840

  • John Stuart Mill's A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive is published.
  • Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's What is Property? is published.

    • 1842

  • Auguste Comte's The Course in Positive Philosophy is published
  • Auguste Comte's Sociologie Comme Instruction Affirmative is published
  • Auguste Comte's Social Statics and Social Dynamics is published

    • 1843

  • Søren Kierkegaard's Either/Or is published

    • 1844

  • Friedrich Engels' Outline of A Critique of Political Economy is published
  • Friedrich Engels' The Holy Family is published
  • Karl Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts is published
  • Max Stirner's The Ego and Its Own is published

    • 1845

  • Friedrich Engels' Conditions of the Working Class in England is published

    • 1846

  • Karl Marx's The German Ideology is published
  • Pierre Joseph Proudhon's Economic Conradictions or the Philosophy of Poverty is published

    • 1847

  • Søren Kierkegaard's Two Ages and the Present Age is published
  • Friedrich Engels' The Principles of Communism is published
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    Mormonism in the 19th century

    This is a chronology of Mormonism. In the late 1820s, founder Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, announced that an angel had given him a set of golden plates engraved with a chronicle of ancient American peoples, which he had a unique gift to translate. In 1830, he published the resulting narratives as the Book of Mormon and founded the Church of Christ in western New York, claiming it to be a restoration of early Christianity.

    Moving the church to Kirtland, Ohio in 1831, Joseph Smith attracted hundreds of converts, who were called Latter Day Saints. He sent some to Jackson County, Missouri to establish a city of Zion. In 1833, Missouri settlers expelled the Saints from Zion, and Smith's paramilitary expedition to recover the land was unsuccessful. Fleeing an arrest warrant in the aftermath of a Kirtland financial crisis, Smith joined his remaining followers in Far West, Missouri, but tensions escalated into violent conflicts with the old Missouri settlers. Believing the Saints to be in insurrection, the Missouri governor ordered their expulsion from Missouri, and Smith was imprisoned on capital charges.

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