Explore 629 historical events from 1840–1849.
Sakaigawa Namiemon was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Katsushika District, Shimōsa Province. He was the sport's 14th yokozuna. Nicknamed "Tanikaze of the Meiji era", h…
Sakaigawa Namiemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 14th Yokozuna (died 1887)
The Sultanate of Brunei or simply Brunei, also known as the Bruneian Empire, was a Malay sultanate centered around Brunei on the northern coast of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Brunei …
The Sultanate of Brunei cedes Sarawak to James Brooke.
James Gordon Bennett Jr. was an American publisher. He was the publisher of the New York Herald, founded by his father, James Gordon Bennett Sr. (1795–1872), who emigrated from Sco…
James Gordon Bennett Jr
Eliza Orzeszkowa was a Polish novelist and a leading writer of the Positivism movement during the foreign Partitions of Poland. In 1905, together with Henryk Sienkiewicz, she was n…
Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author and publisher (died 1910)
Watson Fothergill was a British architect who designed over 100 unique buildings in Nottingham in the East Midlands of England. His influences were mainly from the Gothic Revival a…
Watson Fothergill, English architect, designed the Woodborough Road Baptist Church (died 1928)
William Collins Whitney was an American political leader and financier and a prominent member of the Whitney family. He served as Secretary of the Navy in the first administration …
William Collins Whitney, American financier and politician, 31st United States Secretary of the Navy (died 1904)
Otto Koloman Wagner was an Austrian architect, furniture designer and urban planner. He was a leading member of the Vienna Secession movement of architecture, founded in 1897, and …
Otto Wagner, Austrian architect, designed the Austrian Postal Savings Bank and Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station (died 1918)
Alexander Nikolai von Glehn, was a Baltic German landowner and public figure, most notable for being the founder of the town of Nõmme.
Nikolai von Glehn, Estonian-German architect and activist (died 1923)
Carl Robert Jakobson was an Estonian writer, politician and teacher active in the Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire. He was one of the most important persons of the Estonian n…
Carl Robert Jakobson, Estonian journalist and politician (died 1882)
Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen was a Norwegian physician, remembered for his identification of the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae in 1873 as the etiologic agent of leprosy. His dist…
Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Norwegian physician (died 1912)
Johnny Mullagh was an Australian cricketer from Victoria who was the leading player on the famous 1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England. He was a skilful all-rounder, being a rig…
Johnny Mullagh, Australian cricketer (died 1891)
William Halford was a sailor, and later an officer, in the United States Navy. He also received the Medal of Honor.
William Halford, English-American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1919)
Emil Theodor Kocher was a Swiss physician and medical researcher who received the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in the physiology, pathology and surgery o…
Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1917)
Thomas Emmett was an English cricket bowler in the late 1860s, the 1870s and the early 1880s.
Tom Emmett, English cricketer (died 1904)
Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic era nation…
Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer and academic (died 1904)
Charles Julius Guiteau was an American office seeker who assassinated the 20th president of the United States, James A. Garfield, in 1881. A failed lawyer suffering from mental ill…
Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of president James A. Garfield (died 1882)
Andrejs Pumpurs was a poet who penned the Latvian epic Lāčplēsis and a prominent figure in the Young Latvia movement. Working in the land before volunteering to fight in Serbia aga…
Andrejs Pumpurs, Latvian soldier and poet (died 1902)
Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French statesman who was prime minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A physician turned journalist, he played a cen…
Georges Clemenceau, French journalist, physician, and politician, 85th Prime Minister of France (died 1929)
Prudente José de Morais Barros was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as the third president of Brazil from 1894 to 1898. Morais was elected in 1894, being the first civi…
Prudente de Morais, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Brazil (died 1912)
Duchess Maria Sophie Amalie in Bavaria was the last Queen of the Two Sicilies as the wife of Francis II of the Two Sicilies. She was one of the ten children of Maximilian Joseph, D…
Maria Sophie of Bavaria (died 1925)
Philipp Mainländer was a German philosopher and poet. Born Philipp Batz, he later changed his name to "Mainländer" in homage to his hometown, Offenbach am Main. Mainländer is best …
Philipp Mainländer, German philosopher (died 1876)
Nikola I Petrović-Njegoš was the last monarch of Montenegro from 1860 to 1918, reigning as prince from 1860 to 1910 and as the country's first and only king from 1910 to 1918. His …
Nicholas I of Montenegro (died 1921)
Peter Louis Marie Chanel, SM, was a Catholic priest, missionary, and martyr. Chanel was a member of the Society of Mary and was sent as a missionary to Oceania. He arrived on the i…
Peter Chanel, French priest, missionary, and martyr (born 1803)
Joseph Blanco White, born José María Blanco y Crespo, was an Anglo-Spanish political thinker, theologian, and poet.
Joseph Blanco White, Spanish poet and theologian (born 1775)