Explore 629 historical events from 1840–1849.
Ferdinandus Hubertus Hamer C.I.C.M. was a Catholic missionary to China and bishop who was killed in the Boxer Rebellion in China.
Ferdinand Hamer, Dutch bishop and missionary (died 1900)
George C. Magoun was, in the late 1880s, the Chairman of the Board of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
George C. Magoun, American businessman (died 1893)
Alexander Cameron Sim (28 August 1840 – 28 November 1900) was a Scottish-born pharmacist and entrepreneur, active in Japan during the Meiji period. He developed the Ramune soft dri…
Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish-Japanese pharmacist and businessman, founded Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club (died 1900)
Jacob Christian Fabricius was a Danish councilor, musician, composer and music organizer. Fabricius founded numerous musical societies and institutions during his lifetime. One o…
Jacob Christian Fabricius, Danish composer (died 1919)
Murad V was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 30 May to 31 August 1876. The son of Abdulmejid I, he supported the conversion of the government to a constitutional monarchy. His…
Murad V, Ottoman sultan (died 1904)
Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was the eighth premier of Quebec, serving two separate terms.
Louis-Olivier Taillon, Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Premier of Quebec (died 1923)
Alfred Thayer Mahan was a United States Navy (USN) officer and historian whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century." His 1890 book T…
Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian (died 1914)
Thomas Nast was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist often considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon".
Thomas Nast, German-American cartoonist (died 1902)
Simeon Solomon was a British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelites who was noted for his depictions of Jewish life and same-sex desire. His career was cut short as a result o…
Simeon Solomon, English painter (died 1905)
Helena Modrzejewska, known professionally in the United States as Helena Modjeska, was a Polish-American actress who specialized in Shakespearean and tragic roles. She was also a p…
Helena Modjeska, Polish-American actress (died 1909)
Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev was a Russian literary critic and philosopher who was a central figure of Russian nihilism. He is noted as a forerunner of Nietzschean philosophy, and for …
Dmitry Pisarev, Russian author and critic (died 1868)
Honoré Mercier was a Canadian lawyer, journalist and politician in Quebec. He was the ninth premier of Quebec from January 27, 1887, to December 21, 1891, as leader of the Parti Na…
Honoré Mercier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 9th Premier of Quebec (died 1894)
Count Kuroda Kiyotaka was a Japanese politician and general who served as prime minister of Japan from 1888 to 1889. He was one of the genrō, or senior statesman of the Meiji era.…
Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (died 1900)
Hannah Webster Foster was an American novelist.
Hannah Webster Foster, American journalist and author (born 1758)
Jean-Jacques Lartigue, S.S., was a Canadian Sulpician, who served as the first Catholic Bishop of Montreal.
Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Canadian bishop (born 1777)
Baron Siméon Denis Poisson was a French mathematician and physicist who worked on statistics, complex analysis, partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, analytic…
Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (born 1781)
Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith was a British naval officer and politician. Serving in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, he rose to th…
Sidney Smith, English admiral and politician (born 1764)
Niccolò Paganini was an Italian violinist and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique. …
Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (born 1782)
André Gill was a French caricaturist. Born Louis-Alexandre Gosset de Guînes at Paris, the son of the Comte de Guînes and Sylvie-Adeline Gosset, Gill studied at the Royal Academy of…
André Gill, French caricaturist (died 1885)
Francisco José de Paula Santander y Omaña was a Neogranadine military and political leader who served as Vice-President of Gran Colombia between 1819 and 1826, and was later electe…
Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian general and politician, 4th President of the Republic of the New Granada (born 1
Caspar David Friedrich was a German Romantic landscape painter], generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti-classical w…
Caspar David Friedrich, German painter and educator (born 1774)
Frederick William III was King of Prussia from 16 November 1797 until his death in 1840. He was concurrently Elector of Brandenburg in the Holy Roman Empire until 6 August 1806, wh…
Frederick William III of Prussia (born 1770)
Pierre Claude François Daunou was a French statesman of the French Revolution and Empire. An author and historian, he served as the nation's archivist under both the Empire and the…
Pierre Claude François Daunou, French historian and politician (born 1761)
Lucien Bonaparte, 1st Prince of Canino and Musignano, was a French politician and diplomat of the French Revolution and the Consulate. He served as Minister of the Interior from 17…
Lucien Bonaparte, French prince (born 1775)