Explore 629 historical events from 1840–1849.
Michael Peter Ancher was a Danish realist artist, widely known for his paintings of fishermen, the Skagerrak and the North Sea, and other scenes from the Danish fishing community i…
Michael Ancher, Danish painter and academic (died 1927)
Pedro Elías Pablo Montt Montt was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile from 1906 to his death from a probable stroke in 1910. His government furthered ra…
Pedro Montt, Chilean lawyer and politician, 15th President of Chile (died 1910)
Count Sergei Yulyevich Witte, also known as Sergius Witte, was a Russian statesman who served as the first prime minister of the Russian Empire, replacing the emperor as head of go…
Sergei Witte, Russian politician, 1st Chairmen of Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire (died 1915)
John Hunn was an American businessman and politician from Camden, Delaware. The first governor elected after a reform of Delaware's state constitution and a compromise candidate, H…
John Hunn, American businessman and politician, 51st Governor of Delaware (died 1926)
Maria Theresa Henriette Dorothea of Austria-Este was the last Queen of Bavaria. She was the only child of Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este and Archduchess Elisabeth F…
Maria Theresa of Austria-Este (died 1919)
William Thomas Stead was an English newspaper editor who, as a pioneer of investigative journalism, became a controversial figure of the Victorian era. Stead published a series of …
William Thomas Stead, English journalist (died 1912)
Nicholas Edward Brown was an English plant taxonomist and authority on succulents. He was also an authority on several families of plants, including Asclepiadaceae, Aizoaceae, Labi…
N. E. Brown, English plant taxonomist and authority on succulents (died 1934)
Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet was a Canadian physician and one of the "Big Four" founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler created the first residency program for speci…
William Osler, Canadian physician and author (died 1919)
Ferdinand Vincent-de-Paul Marie Brunetière was a French writer and critic.
Ferdinand Brunetière, French scholar and critic (died 1906)
Robert Anderson Van Wyck was an American politician who was the first mayor of New York City after the consolidation of the five boroughs into the City of Greater New York in 1898.
Robert Anderson Van Wyck, American lawyer and politician, 91st Mayor of New York City (died 1918)
Emma Lazarus was an American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist for Jewish and Georgist causes. Lazarus is especially remembered for her 1883 sonnet,…
Emma Lazarus, American poet and educator (died 1887)
James Edson White, frequently known as Edson White, was an American author, publisher and the second son of two of the pioneers of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, James S. White …
James Edson White, American author and publisher, second son of Ellen G. White and James S. White
Max Simon Nordau was a Jewish Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic. He was a co-founder of the Zionist Organization together with Theodor Herzl, and president or vi…
Max Nordau, Hungarian physician, author, and critic, co-founded the World Zionist Organization (died 1923)
Leonora M. Kearney Barry was an Irish-American labor activist. As the only woman to hold national office within the Knights of Labor, she brought attention to the conditions of wor…
Leonora Barry, Irish-born American social activist (died 1930)
William Kidston was an Australian bookseller, politician and Premier of Queensland, from January 1906 to November 1907 and again from February 1908 to February 1911.
William Kidston, Scottish-Australian politician, 17th Premier of Queensland (died 1919)
Joaquim Aurélio Barreto Nabuco de Araújo was a Brazilian statesman, diplomat, a leading voice in the abolitionist movement of his country, historian, jurist, journalist, and one of…
Joaquim Nabuco, Brazilian politician and diplomat (died 1910)
William Ernest Henley was an English poet, writer, critic, and editor. Though he wrote several books of poetry, Henley is remembered most often for his 1875 poem "Invictus". A fixt…
William Ernest Henley, English poet and critic (died 1903)
Emil Zuckerkandl was an Austrian-Hungarian anatomist who held the first chair for anatomy at the University of Vienna as of 1888.
Emil Zuckerkandl, Hungarian anatomist (died 1910)
Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett was an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern coast of Maine. Jewett is reco…
Sarah Orne Jewett, American novelist, short story writer and poet (died 1909)
Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blyth, known professionally by his stage name Maurice Barrymore, was an Indian-born British stage actor. He is the patriarch of the Barrymore acting fam…
Maurice Barrymore, American actor (died 1905)
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a Russian and Soviet experimental neurologist and physiologist known for his discovery of classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs. Pavlov…
Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1936)
James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Childrens' Poet" for his dialect works and h…
James Whitcomb Riley, American poet and author (died 1916)
Ferdinand Georg Frobenius was a German mathematician, best known for his contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, number theory, and to group theo…
Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician and academic (died 1917)
Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier, known as Juliette, was a French socialite whose salon drew people from the leading literary and political circles of early 19th-century Pa…
Juliette Récamier, French businesswoman (born 1777)