Explore 629 historical events from 1840–1849.
Sir John Cox Bray was a prominent South Australian politician and the first native-born Premier of South Australia (1881–1884).
John Cox Bray, Australian politician, 15th Premier of South Australia (died 1894)
John Quincy Adams Brackett was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. A Republican and temperance advocate, he served one term as the 36th governor of Massachusetts,…
John Q
Hazard Stevens was an American military officer, mountaineer, politician and writer. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Union army during the American Civil War …
Hazard Stevens, American military officer, mountaineer, politician and writer (died 1918)
Carl Paul Gottfried von Linde was a German scientist, engineer, and businessman. He discovered the refrigeration cycle and invented the first industrial-scale air separation and ga…
Carl von Linde, German engineer and academic (died 1934)
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American author, journalist, and poet. A prolific and versatile writer, Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United …
Ambrose Bierce, American short story writer, essayist, and journalist (died 1914)
Hermann Cohen was a German Jewish philosopher, one of the founders of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, and he is often held to be "probably the most important Jewish philosoph…
Hermann Cohen, German philosopher (died 1918)
William David Coleman was an Americo-Liberian politician. A True Whig Party member, he served as the 13th president of Liberia from 1896 to 1900. Born in Fayette County, Kentucky, …
William D. Coleman, 13th President of Liberia (died 1908)
Frederic Thomas Greenhalge was an American lawyer and politician in Massachusetts. He served in the United States House of Representatives and was the 38th governor of Massachusett…
Frederic T. Greenhalge, English-American lawyer and politician, 38th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1896)
Alfred Marshall was an English economist and one of the most influential economists of his time. His book Principles of Economics (1890) was the dominant economic textbook in Engla…
Alfred Marshall, English economist and academic (died 1924)
Captain Charles Wells was the British founder of Charles Wells Ltd, which became the largest privately owned brewery in the United Kingdom, and the progenitor of the Wells Baronets…
Charles Wells, English brewer, founded Charles Wells Ltd (died 1914)
Jakob Rosanes was a German mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry and invariant theory. He was also a chess master.
Jakob Rosanes, Ukrainian-German mathematician, chess player, and academic (died 1922)
Alfred Shaw was a Victorian cricketer and rugby footballer, who bowled the first ball in Test cricket and was the first to take five wickets in a Test innings (5/35). He made two t…
Alfred Shaw, English cricketer, rugby player, and umpire (died 1907)
Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia was the eldest child and first daughter of Tsar Alexander II of Russia and his first wife Marie of Hesse and by Rhine. She died from …
Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (died 1849)
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin was a publisher, journalist, civil rights leader, suffragist, abolitionist, and editor of the Woman's Era, the first national newspaper published by and…
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, American journalist, publisher, and activist (died 1924)
Johannes Hermann Zukertort was a Polish-born British-German chess master. He was one of the leading world players for most of the 1870s and 1880s, but lost to Wilhelm Steinitz in t…
Johannes Zukertort, Polish-English chess player, linguist, and journalist (died 1888)
John Hollis Bankhead was an American politician and Confederate Army soldier. A member of the Democratic Party, Bankhead served as U.S. Senator from the state of Alabama from 1907 …
John H. Bankhead, American soldier and politician (died 1920)
Sir James Dewar was a Scottish chemist and physicist. He is best known for his invention of the vacuum flask, which he used in conjunction for his research into the liquefaction of…
James Dewar, Scottish-English chemist and physicist (died 1923)
Abdülhamid II or Abdul Hamid II was the 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1876 to 1909, and the last sultan to exert effective control over the fracturing state. He oversaw a…
Abdul Hamid II, 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (died 1918)
Alphonse Francois Renard, Belgian geologist and petrographer, was born at Ronse, in East Flanders, on 27 September 1842. He was educated for the church of Rome, and from 1866 to 1…
Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist and petrographer (died 1903)
Sir Subbier Subramania Iyer ; was an Indian lawyer, jurist and freedom fighter who, along with Annie Besant, founded the Indian Home Rule Movement. He was popularly known as the "G…
S. Subramania Iyer, Indian lawyer and jurist (died 1924)
Charles Cros or Émile-Hortensius-Charles Cros was a French poet and inventor. He was born in Fabrezan, Aude.
Charles Cros, French poet and author (died 1888)
Emily Dobson was an Australian philanthropist. She was known for her work supporting women's charities.
Emily Dobson, Australian philanthropist (died 1934)
Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin was a Russian painter, war artist, and traveller. The graphic nature of his realist scenes led to many of them never being printed or exhibited to t…
Vasily Vereshchagin, Russian soldier and painter (died 1904)
Joseph Start, nicknamed "Old Reliable", was one of the most durable regulars of baseball's earliest era, and one of the top first basemen of his time. He began his playing career i…
Joe Start, American baseball player and manager (died 1927)