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1840 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1840th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 840th year of the 2nd millennium, the 40th year of the 19th century, and the 1st year of the 1840s decade. As of the start of 1840, the ...
The 1840s (pronounced "eighteen-forties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, ... The third cholera pandemic happened during the 1840s, ...
April 7 – Thaddeus Betts, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1839 to 1840 (born 1789) August 10 – Seymour Brunson , early Mormon convert (born 1798 ) August 27 – William Kneass , second Chief Engraver of the United States Mint from 1824 to 1840 (born 1781 )
U.S. territorial extent in 1840. 1840 – 1840 United States presidential election: William Henry Harrison is elected president; John Tyler is elected vice president. 1841 – John Quincy Adams argues the Amistad Case before the Supreme Court.
The 1840 presidential election was the only time in which four people who either had been or would become a U.S. President (Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, and Polk) received at least one vote in the Electoral College when it voted for president and vice-president.
However, after 1840 many abolitionists rejected the idea of repatriation to Africa. [34] The abolitionist movement among white Protestants was based on evangelical principles of the Second Great Awakening. Evangelist Theodore Weld led abolitionist revivals that called for immediate emancipation of slaves.
Penny Black. 1 January – Trial of Welsh Chartists John Frost, Zephaniah Williams and William Jones for their part in the Newport Rising of 1839 opens at Monmouth before Chief Justice Tindal; this is the first trial where proceedings are recorded in shorthand.
The Council House Fight, often referred to as the Council House Massacre, [1] was a fight between soldiers and officials of the Republic of Texas and a delegation of Comanche chiefs during a peace conference in San Antonio on March 19, 1840.