1840s facts for kids

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1810s 1820s 1830s – 1840s – 1850s 1860s 1870s
Years:	1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

Contents

Events
World leaders
Births
Deaths
Images for kids
See also

Events

Treaty of Nanking between China and the United Kingdom(1842)
Irish Potato Famine(1845–1848)
Mexican-American War (1846–1848)
The Communist Manifesto (1848)is published
European Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
California Gold Rush (1849)

World leaders

Emperor Ferdinand I (Austria)
Chancellor Klemens Wenzel von Metternich (Austria)
Emperor Franz Josef (Austria-Hungary)
King Louis-Philippe (July Monarchy France)
Frederick William IV of Prussia (Prussia)
Pope Gregory XVI
Pope Pius IX
Emperor Nicholas I (Russia)
Queen Isabella II (Spain)
Queen Victoria (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)
Prime Minister Lord Melbourne (United Kingdom)
Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel (United Kingdom)
Prime Minister Lord John Russell (United Kingdom)
President Martin Van Buren (United States)
President William Henry Harrison (United States)
President John Tyler (United States)
President James Knox Polk (United States)
President Zachary Taylor (United States)
Sultan Abd-ul-Mejid I (Ottoman Empire)
Shahs of Persia (Qajar dynasty)

Mohammad Shah Qajar, (b. 1810 – d. 1848) Shah from 1834 to 1848
Nasser-al-Din Shah, 1848–1896

Births

Edvard Grieg (1843)
Wyatt Earp (1848)

Deaths

Edgar Allan Poe (1849)

Images for kids

June 15: Charles Goodyear.
July 3: great auk.
February 21: Karl Marx publishes The Communist Manifesto.
January 13: Steamship Lexington sinks.
July 4: RMS Britannia.
July 19: SS Great Britain launch.
Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort at home, 1841. Her dress shows the fashionable silhouette, with its pointed waist, sloping shoulder, and bell-shaped skirt.
February 28: USS Princeton deaths.
Tivoli Gardens

See also

In Spanish: Años 1840 para niños

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