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2 unusual facts about 1840


Charles Naylor

He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1840.

Nathaniel P. Tallmadge

In 1839, Tallmadge ran for re-election to the U.S. Senate, nominated by the Whigs, but due to a Democratic majority in the State Senate, who objected to his election, no choice was made, and the seat became vacant on March 4, 1839.


Aachen Rathaus

Since the end of the Imperial City era and the Napoleonic occupation of the area, the structural condition of the City Hall was greatly neglected, so that the building was seen to be falling apart by 1840.

Alemany Maze

Alemany, who in 1840 completed his studies in sacred theology in Rome at the College of St. Thomas, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum, was consecrated Bishop of Monterey in California on June 30, 1850, at Rome, and was transferred July 29, 1853, to the See of San Francisco as its first archbishop.

Alonzo Potter

He edited many reprints and collections of sermons and lectures, and wrote: Political Economy (with Johann Ludwig Tellkampf, New York, 1840), The Principles of Science applied to the Domestic and Mechanic Arts (1841), Handbook for Readers and Students (1843), and Religious Philosophy (1870).

Antonio Puigblanch

Antonio Puigblanch died on September 25, 1840, at 51 Johnson Street (now Cranleigh Street), Somers Town, London.

August Friedrich Otto Münchmeyer

In 1840 he was appointed pastor at Lamspringe, near Hildesheim; in 1851, superintendent at Catlenburg; and in 1855, consistorial councilor and superintendent at Buer, and member of the ecclesiastical court of Osnabrück.

Celle Castle

As a result Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves had several interior alterations made in 1839 and 1840.

Centralist Republic of Mexico

On January 17, 1840, a group of notables of the three States met in close to Laredo.

Clarence House

It passed to his sister Princess Augusta Sophia and, following her death in 1840, to Queen Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent.

Clarke brothers

Thomas (1840?-1867) and John Clarke (1846?-1867) were Australian bushrangers from the Braidwood district of New South Wales responsible for a series of high-profile robberies and killings in the late 19th century so notorious that they led to the embedding of the Felons' Apprehension Act (1866), a law that introduced the concept of outlawry and authorised citizens to kill criminals on sight.

Constitution Hill, London

It was the scene of three assassination attempts against Queen Victoria—in 1840 (by Edward Oxford), 1842 (by John Francis) and 1849 (by William Hamilton).

David Hubbard

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress.

Ede Szigligeti

In 1840 he was elected a member of the Academy and in 1845 a member of the Kisfaludy Society.

Florence Claxton

Florence Anne Claxton (fl. 1840 – 1879) was an English artist and humorist, most notable for her satire on the Pre-Raphaelite movement.

Frederick Lucian Hosmer

Frederick Lucian Hosmer (1840-1929) was an American Unitarian minister who served congregations in Massachusetts, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, and California and who wrote many significant hymns.

George Abercromby, 4th Baron Abercromby

Abercromby married Lady Julia Janet Georgiana Duncan (b. 1840), the daughter of Adam Haldane-Duncan, 2nd Earl of Camperdown and his wife Juliana Cavendish Philips, at the earl's residence Camperdown House on 6 October 1858.

George Markham Giffard

Giffard entered the Inner Temple, of which he eventually became a bencher, and was called to the bar in November 1840.

George Papworth

He also added the portico to Kenure House in Rush in North county Dublin in about 1840; the portico is still standing but the rest of the house was demolished in 1978.

Grampians National Park

The rock art was created by Jardwadjali and Djab Wurrung peoples, and while Aboriginal communities continue to pass on knowledge and cultural traditions, much indigenous knowledge has also been lost since European settlement of the area from 1840.

Granville Sharp Pattison

He was appointed professor of anatomy at New York University on the reorganisation of its medical department in 1840, a post he retained till his death on 12 November 1851.

Grimwade

Frederick Sheppard Grimwade (1840 – 1910), Australian businessman and Victorian parliamentarian

Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals

In his book On the Basis of Morality (1840), Arthur Schopenhauer presents a careful analysis of the Groundwork.

Halleck Tustenuggee

Halleck was severely wounded by U.S. troops at a skirmish at Fort King (in present day Ocala) in April 1840 against Capt. Gabriel J. Rains (a future Civil War Confederate General).

Henry A. P. Carter

His brother Joseph Oliver Carter (1835–1909) married Mary Ladd (1840–1908), daughter of the founder of early trading company Ladd & Co. William Ladd (1807–1863).

History of nationality in Gibraltar

There was a Genoese population of fishermen who came to Gibraltar since 1840 for the fishing season and would build temporary shelters or live in caves, and by the 1878 census, they had established a permanent village at Catalan Bay.

James Patton Anderson

He attended the medical school of Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania in 1840, before a family financial crisis forced him to withdraw a short time before graduation in 1842.

James Westcott

When Westcott was young, his family moved to New Jersey where his father established a political career in the Assembly and as Secretary of State of New Jersey from 1830 to 1840.

José López Portillo

He was the great-great-great grandson of José María Narváez (1768–1840), a Spanish explorer who was the first to enter Strait of Georgia in present-day British Columbia and the first to view the site now occupied by the city of Vancouver.

Joseph Burtt

Burtt began working in the public service in 1832 at the Chapter House in Westminster Abbey under Sir Francis Palgrave, and in 1840 became a member of staff at the Public Record Office.

Joseph J. McDowell

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress.

Journal of Natural History

The journal was formed by the merger of the Magazine of Natural History (1828–1840) and the Annals of Natural History (1838–1840; previously the Magazine of Zoology and Botany, 1836–1838) and Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History).

Karl vom Stein zum Altenstein

Karl Sigmund Franz Freiherr vom Stein zum Altenstein (1 October 1770, Schalkhausen near Ansbach - 14 May 1840, Berlin) was a Prussian politician and the first Prussian culture minister.

Merriott

Francis Trask (1840 – 6 April 1910) was a 20th-century Member of the New Zealand Legislative Council and Mayor of Nelson.

Nicholas J. Clayton

Nicholas Joseph Clayton (November 1, 1840 in Cloyne, County Cork - December 9, 1916) was a prominent Victorian era architect in Galveston, Texas.

Osmyn Baker

Baker was reelected to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses and served from January 14, 1840, to March 3, 1845.

Patrick Hannan

Paddy Hannan (1840–1925), Irish-born gold prospector in Australia

Provincial Secretary and Registrar of Ontario

Sir Dominick Daly (1844-1848) - former Provincial Secretary of Lower Canada (1827-1840), Canada East (1843-1844)

Reynolds Peak

Two conical peaks were sighted in the area from the Peacock on January 16, 1840 by Passed Midshipmen William Reynolds and Henry Eld of the United States Exploring Expedition (1838–42).

Saint Swithun

Eliza Gutch (1840–1931), who wrote to Notes and Queries under the pseudonym St Swithin.

Sheffield Rules

Henry Creswick (possibly a relative of Nathaniel Creswick) was born in Sheffield but emigrated to Australia with his brother in 1840 (the town of Creswick is named after them).

Singerie

The Grade I listed buildings, which have housed guests since 1840 were built in the 1740s by Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough.

Sisters of the Child Jesus

Through the work of different foundresses in other cities of France, other autonomous congregations became to develop: Digne (1840), Claveisolles (1858) and Chauffailles (1859).

Speed S. Fry

He graduated from Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, in 1840 and returned to Danville to practice law under his uncle.

Springfield Parish, New Brunswick

Brunswick Parish established in 1786: probably named for the town of Springfield in New Jersey or for the town of Springfield in Massachusetts: included parts of Studholm Parish and Havelock Parish until 1840.

Thomas-Marie-Joseph Gousset

In 1840 he was called to the Archdiocese of Reims, but his episcopal duties did not prevent him from completing important theological works.

Timothy O'Sullivan

Timothy H. O'Sullivan (c.1840–1882), American photographer known for his work on the American Civil War and the Western United States

Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site

In 1840, John Jacob Astor purchased the property from Hosack's heirs for his daughter Dorothea and her husband Walter S. Langdon.

William Wheelwright

In 1838, with help from the Chilean government, he founded the Pacific Steam Navigation Company which commenced operations on October 15, 1840 and provided commercial sea access to cities such as Valparaíso and El Callao.

William Winter

William Winter-Irving (1840–1901), born William Irving Winter, Australian politician

Wreay

The church, designed and built in basilica form in 1840–42 by the local landowner Sara or Sarah Losh, exhibits an original style which she called "early Saxon or modified Lombard".

Xylem Inc.

The corporate history of Goulds Pumps began in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848, when Seabury S. Gould purchased the interests of Edward Mynderse and H.C. Silsby in Downs, Mynderse & Co., a pump making business which had started up in 1840.


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