Historical Events in 1840
80 curated events dated to this year, and 152 musicalized poets on V2Melody were alive then.
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Invention of the Penny Black and Postal Reform
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Whittier's Involvement in the Anti-Slavery Society
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British Vaccination Act Provides Free Smallpox Vaccination
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Cary Sisters' Literary Beginnings
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Charles Wilkes United States Exploring Expedition
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Crisis of Faith
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Death of his mother
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Emily Dickinson Enters Amherst Academy
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First Publications in The Dial
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Introduction of the Uniform Penny Post
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Marriage to Amelia Lee
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Mechanical Reaper Commercial Success
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Opium Wars Lead to Increased Literary Orientalism
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Penny Post Reforms Expand Cheap Mail
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Publication of 'Poems of Many Years'
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Publication of 'Poems' collection
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Publication of 'The Poet's Dream'
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Publication of 'The Poetical Works of Ebenezer Elliott'
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Publication of 'The Poetical Works of Sir Aubrey de Vere'
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The Penny Post Introduced in Britain
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Thomson's Enrollment in the Royal Caledonian Asylum
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19th Century Sanitary Commissions
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Breech-Loading Rifle Development
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British Annexation of New Zealand
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Edgar Allan Poe's Suspected Opium and Laudanum Use
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Electric Clock by Alexander Bain
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Electrogilding Invention
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Final Years and Continued Writing
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Final Years and Legacy
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Financial Decline of the Greenwell Family
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Friendship with Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Friendship with Alfred Tennyson
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Friendship with Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Guano Fertilizer Trade Boom
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High-Pressure Steam Locomotives Standardize on Railways
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Involvement with the Athenaeum Club
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John Deere Steel Plow Commercialization
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Jules Dumont d'Urville's First French Antarctic Expedition
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Justus von Liebig Develops Fertilizer Chemistry
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Marriage to Emily Sellwood
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Metric Reinstated in France
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Publication of 'The Lady of the Lake'
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Publication of First Poems
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Return of Napoleon's Ashes to France
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Sojourner Truth's Friendship with Frederick Douglass
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Steamships Transform Global Trade Networks
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Thackeray's Move to Paris
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The 1840s Food Safety and the Rise of Reform
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The Codification of English Afternoon Tea by the Duchess of Bedford
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The Marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
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Thomas Hardy Born
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Treaty of Waitangi Signed
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Use of Alum to Whiten Bread Becomes Common
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Writing and Publication of Mazepa and Lilla Weneda
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Absinthe Issued to French Troops in Algeria
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Birth of William Bell Scott's Second Child
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Called to the Bar
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Ceramic Tile Mass Production in Industrial Britain
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Education at the University of Pennsylvania
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Friendship with Edgar Allan Poe
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George Darley experiences a decline in health and finances
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Hardy's Near-Death at Birth
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Joule publishes his law of electrical heating in Manchester
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Murder of Lord William Russell
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Penny Black Postage Stamp Issued
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Pinfire Cartridge System Commercialized
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The Anti-Catholic Nativist Panic (1840s–1850s)
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The Transcendentalist Journal 'The Dial' Begins Publication
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Victoria Marries Prince Albert
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Electrically Wound Clocks
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Final Years in Twickenham
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First Fish Ladder Built in the United States
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Influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
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Italianate Style House Design Spreads
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Mass Production of Rag Rugs in Industrial Era
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Steam in Sugar and Food Processing Industries
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Thomas Lovell Beddoes's friendship with Robert Browning
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Vaccination for the Poor Introduced
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Death of Paternal Grandmother Lucretia Gunn Dickinson
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The 'Tonic' and 'Elixir' Fad
Poets alive in 1840
152 poets
Poets in 1840
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