Explore 216 historical events from 1840–1849.
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Hamilton has a population of 569,353 as of the 2021 Canadian census, and its census metropolitan area, which encompasse…
Hamilton, Ontario (skyline pictured) is granted city status by the Parliament of the Province of Canada
Sonoma is a city in Sonoma County, California, United States, located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. Sonoma is one of the principal cities of California's W…
Settlers in Sonoma began rebelling against Mexico, later proclaiming the California Republic and raising a homemade fla
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play …
The first officially recorded baseball game in U
Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler was a Swiss poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919 "in special appreciation of his epic Olympian Spring". His work includes both…
Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1924)
Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first African American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States. In 1879, Mahoney was the first African American to gradu…
Mary Eliza Mahoney, American nurse and activist (died 1926)
Karl Gustaf Patrik de Laval was a Swedish engineer and inventor who made important contributions to the design of steam turbines and centrifugal separation machinery for dairy.
Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer and businessman (died 1913)
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, gallicised and known in Western sources as Élie Metchnikoff, was a zoologist from the Russian Empire of Moldavian noble ancestry best known for his research …
Élie Metchnikoff, Russian zoologist (died 1916)
Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator. After serving in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, he led two expeditio…
Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition depart from Greenhithe, England
Jacint Verdaguer i Santaló was a Spanish writer and priest, regarded as one of the greatest poets of Catalan literature and a prominent literary figure of the Renaixença, a cultura…
Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan priest and poet (died 1902)
Amadeo I, also known as Amadeus, was an Italian prince who reigned as King of Spain from 1870 to 1873. The only king of Spain to come from the House of Savoy, he was the second son…
Amadeo I, Spanish king (died 1890)
Leopold von Auer was a Hungarian violinist, academic, conductor, composer, and instructor. Many of his students went on to become prominent concert performers and teachers.
Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (died 1930)
Frank Prescott Norton was an American professional baseball player, who played in one game for the Washington Olympics on May 5, 1871. He struck out in his only at-bat and played …
Frank Norton, American baseball player (died 1920)
Fatel Razack was the first ship to bring indentured labourers from India to Trinidad. The ship was built in Aprenade for a trader named Ibrahim Bin Yussef, an Indian Muslim mercha…
The Fatel Razack coming from India, lands in the Gulf of Paria in Trinidad and Tobago carrying the first Indians to the
Gabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th…
Gabriel Fauré, French pianist, composer, and educator (died 1924)
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was a French physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of i…
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1922)
Cléophas Beausoleil was a Canadian journalist, publisher, office holder, lawyer, and politician.
Cléophas Beausoleil, Canadian journalist and politician (died 1904)
János Batsányi was a Hungarian poet.
János Batsányi, Hungarian poet and academic (born 1763)
Braulio Evaristo Carrillo Colina was the Head of State of Costa Rica during two periods: the first between 1835 and 1837, and the de facto between 1838 and 1842.
Braulio Carrillo Colina, Costa Rican lawyer and politician, Head of State of Costa Rica (born 1800)
Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. He rose to fame as a U.S. Army general and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress. His politica…
Andrew Jackson, American general, judge, and politician, 7th President of the United States (born 1767)
Wisconsin is a state in the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michiga…
A long-running feud between two towns in Wisconsin came to a head when a schooner crashed into a bridge; they later merg
Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator. After serving in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, he led two expeditio…
Captain John Franklin (pictured) departed Greenhithe, England, on an expedition to the Canadian Arctic in search of the
The Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) is the primary law enforcement, investigative agency, and largest disciplined service under the Security Bureau of Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second modern police force and Asia's first, is established
The Báb was an Iranian religious leader who founded Bábism, and is also one of the central figures of the Baháʼí Faith. The Báb gradually and progressively revealed his claim in hi…
Báb: A merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American inventor and painter. After establishing his reputation as a portrait painter, Morse, in his middle age, contributed to the invention of …
Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from a committee room in th