year 1840 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. William Whewell publishes The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, introducing...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1840. 1840 (MDCCCXL) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on...

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...

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1840. John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood explore ruins of the Maya civilization including...

The 1840 United States census was the sixth census of the United States. Conducted by U.S. marshals on June 1, 1840, it determined the resident population...

as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1840. Data...

Mississippi, on Thursday, May 7, 1840. The tornado, while officially unrated, was the second-deadliest tornado in United States history; at least 317 people...

experimental electric bell, in particular a type of bell that uses the electrostatic clock principle that was set up in 1840 and which has run nearly continuously...

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1840. June – An amnesty to mark the accession of King Frederick William IV of...

The year 1840 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. 27 April – The foundation stone of the new Palace of Westminster...

article is about music-related events in 1840. February 11 – Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Regiment premieres in Paris. April 2 – Première of Ferdinand...

la frégate La Vénus pendant les années 1836-1839 (10 volumes, 1840–1864) The birds in this work were illustrated by Paul Louis Oudart (1796–1860)Capitaine :...

Zealand) Alarm clock, mounted on model of coffin, probably English, 1840–1900 (Science Museum, London) Still Life: An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life...

America Act, 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 35), also known as the Act of Union 1840, (French: Acte d’Union) was approved by Parliament in July 1840 and proclaimed...

history of science covers the development of science from ancient times to the present. It encompasses all three major branches of science: natural, social...

Events in the year 1840 in Iceland. Monarch: Christian VIII of Denmark Governor of Iceland: Carl Emil Bardenfleth The largest recorded surface area of...

UGC 1840, also known as Arp 145, are a pair of interacting galaxies located 250 million light-years away from the Solar System in the Andromeda constellation...

This is a list of arts and science college run and controlled by the State Government of Tamil Nadu in India. Thee colleges are under the control of Directorate...

describes the Cuban pygmy owl in Ramón de la Sagra's monumental Historia física, política y natural de la isla de Cuba 1839-1840 Christian Ferdinand Friedrich...

19th-century science was greatly influenced by Romanticism (or the Age of Reflection, c. 1800–1840), an intellectual movement that originated in Western Europe...

The year 1841 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley demonstrates that Phytophthora infestans...

record New Zealand. In 1769 the British explorer Captain James Cook became the first European to set foot on and map New Zealand. In 1840, representatives...

Events from the year 1840 in Ireland. 10 January – Uniform Penny Post introduced. 1 April – Theatre Royal, Cork burns down. 19 May – foundation stone...

The year 1839 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. January – The first parallax measurement of the distance to Alpha...

been sealed in four coffins (two of metal and two of mahogany) and placed in a masonry tomb. On 15 December 1840, a state funeral was held in Paris with...

Brunson, M. (2016). Russian Realisms: Literature and Painting, 1840–1890. NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. DeKalb, Il: Northern...

Events from the year 1840 in art. March 4 – Alexander S. Wolcott and John Johnson open their "Daguerreian Parlor" on Broadway (Manhattan), the world's...

Victoria married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in 1840. Their nine children married into royal and noble families across the continent...

The year 1844 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. August 10 – German astronomer Friedrich Bessel deduces from the...

The year 1833 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. November 12–13 – A spectacular occurrence of the Leonid meteor...