Explore 436 historical events from 1840–1849.
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important American artis…
Thomas Eakins, American painter, sculptor, and photographer (died 1916)
Stefan Drzewiecki was a Polish scientist, journalist, engineer, constructor and inventor, known for designing and constructing the world's first electric-powered submarine. He work…
Stefan Drzewiecki, Ukrainian-Polish engineer and journalist (died 1938)
Gerard Manley Hopkins was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame places him among the leading English poets. His prosody – notably his concept of sprung rhythm – …
Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (died 1889)
Henry Berger was a Prussian-born Kapellmeister, composer, and royal bandmaster of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi from 1872 to 1915.
Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader (died 1929)
Alfred was sovereign Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 22 August 1893 until his death in 1900. He was the second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. He was k…
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died 1900)
James Henry Greathead was an English mechanical and civil engineer renowned for his work on the London Underground railways, Winchester Cathedral, and Liverpool overhead railway, a…
James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer (died 1896)
Ilya Yefimovich Repin was a Ukrainian-born Russian painter. He became one of the most renowned artists in Russia in the 19th century. His major works include Barge Haulers on the V…
Ilya Repin, Russian painter and sculptor (died 1930)
Auguste Michel-Lévy was a French geologist. He was born in Paris.
Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist and author (died 1911)
Thomas-Alfred Bernier was a Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician.
Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (died 1908)
George Washington De Long was a United States Navy officer and explorer who led the ill-fated Jeannette expedition of 1879–1881, in search of the Open Polar Sea.
George W. De Long, American Naval officer and explorer (died 1881)
Richard McCarty was an American politician from New York.
Richard McCarty, American lawyer and politician (born 1780)
Abbate Giuseppe Baini was an Italian priest, music critic, conductor, and composer of church music.
Giuseppe Baini, Italian priest and composer (born 1775)
Thomas Campbell was a Scottish poet at the intersection of the neoclassical with the Romantic style of British poetry.
Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet and academic (born 1777)
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition". He was a colleague of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and expanded and defende…
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French zoologist and biologist (born 1772)
Hyrum Smith was an American religious leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement. He was the older brother of t…
Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (born 1800)
Joseph Smith Jr. was an American religious and political leader and the founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. Publishing the Book of Mormon at the age of 24, Smit…
Joseph Smith, American religious leader, founded the Latter Day Saint movement (born 1805)
Yevgeny Abramovich Baratynsky was a Russian poet. He was lauded by Alexander Pushkin as the finest Russian elegiac poet. After a long period when his reputation was on the wane, Ba…
Yevgeny Baratynsky, Russian philosopher and poet (born 1800)
Claude Charles Fauriel was a French historian, philologist and critic.
Claude Charles Fauriel, French philologist and historian (born 1772)
Jacob Aall was a Norwegian politician, historian, landowner and government economist.
Jacob Aall, Norwegian economist, historian, and politician (born 1773)
José María Coppinger was a Spanish soldier who served in the infantry of the Royal Spanish Army (Ejército de Tierra) and governed East Florida (1816–1821) and several areas in Cuba…
José María Coppinger, governor of Spanish East Florida (born 1733)
John Dalton was an English chemist, physicist, and meteorologist whose work laid the foundations of modern atomic theory and stoichiometric chemistry. Building on earlier ideas abo…
John Dalton, English physicist, meteorologist, and chemist (born 1776)
Joseph Bonaparte, regnal name José I, was a French statesman, lawyer, diplomat and older brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1806, Napoleon made him King of Naples, and then King of …
Joseph Bonaparte, French diplomat and brother of Napoleon (born 1768)
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, also known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Jr., was the youngest child of six born to composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his wife Constanze and the younge…
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1791)
Shiraz is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars province, which is historically known by the exonym Persia proper. As of the 2016 national census, the popula…
In Shiraz, Iran, the Báb declared himself to be a messenger of God to Mullá Husayn, leading to the foundation of Bábism,