Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
This is a list of sovereign states in the 1840s, giving an overview of states around the world during the period between 1 January 1840 and 31 December 1849. It contains entries, arranged alphabetically, with information on the status and recognition of their sovereignty .
The 1840s (pronounced "eighteen-forties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1840, and ended on December 31, 1849.. The decade was noted in Europe for featuring the largely unsuccessful Revolutions of 1848, also known as the Springtime of Nations.
Estimate numbers are from the beginning of the year, and exact population figures are for countries that were having a census in the year 1800 (which were on various dates in that year). The bulk of these numbers are sourced from Alexander V. Avakov's Two Thousand Years of Economic Statistics, Volume 1, pages 21 to 24, which cover population ...
1 May – Issue of the Penny Black, the world's first postage stamp, [4] together with Mulready stationery. The stamp becomes valid for prepayment of postage from 6 May. [6] 5 May - Thomas Carlyle gives the first lecture in the series On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History.
1840 in England (5 C, 5 P) F. 1840 in France (5 C, 3 P) ... Pages in category "1840 by country" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
10 February – Penny Red postage stamp replaces the Penny Black. [4] 20 February – The Governor Fenner, carrying emigrants to America, sinks off Holyhead with the loss of 123 lives. March – Richard Beard opens England's first commercial photographic studio in London, producing daguerreotype portraits. [5]
1840s in England (15 C) 1840s in Ireland (15 C, 12 P)- ... Pages in category "1840s in the United Kingdom" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
1840s in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (4 C) 1840s in Sierra Leone (2 C) 1840s in Singapore (5 C) 1840s in South Africa (10 C, 2 P) 1840s in South West Africa (4 C)