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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.
America's Best History, ... from sea to shining sea. United States History Timeline, the 1840's, the Mexican War, includes the top events of each year of the decade.
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January 10: Penny postage was introduced in Britain.January 13: In a shocking maritime disaster, the steamship Lexington burned and sank in Long Island Sound. Only four men survived and more than 150 passengers and crew perished.February 10: Queen Victoria of England married Prince Albertof Saxe Coburg-Gotha.May 1: The first postage stamps, Britain’s “Penny Black,” were issued.March 4: William Henry Harrison was inaugurated as president of the United States. He delivered a two-hour inaugural addressin very cold weather. As a result, he caught pneumonia, from which he nev...Spring: A free Black New Yorker, Solomon Northup, was lured to Washington, D.C., drugged, kidnapped, and enslaved. He would tell his story in the powerful memoir "Twelve Years a Slave."April 4: President William Henry Harrison died after only one month in office. He was the first American president to die in office and was succeeded by Vice President John Tyler.Autumn: Land was purchased in Massachusetts for Brook Farm, an experimental farming community frequented by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and other writers and thinkers of the era.January: The British retreated from Kabul, Afghanistan and were massacred by Afghan troops.August 29: The First Opium War ended with the Treaty of Nanking.November: Showman Phineas T. Barnum tracked down a child in Connecticut said to be peculiarly small. The boy, Charles Stratton, would become a show business phenomenon known as General Tom Thumb.February 28: An accident with a cannon on US Navy warship killed two members of John Tyler’s cabinet.May 24: The first telegram was sent from the U.S. Capitol to Baltimore. Samuel F.B. Morsewrote, “what hath God wrought.”August: Karl Marxand Friedrich Engels met in Paris.November: James Knox Polk defeated Henry Clayin the U.S. presidential election.January 23: The U.S. Congress established a uniform date for federal elections, naming the first Tuesday after the first Mondayin November as Election Day.March 1: President John Tyler signed a bill annexing Texas.March 4: James Knox Polkwas inaugurated as President of the United States.May: Frederick Douglasspublished his autobiography "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave."February 26: American frontier scout and showman William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was born in Iowa.April 25: Mexican troops ambushed and killed a patrol of U.S. soldiers. Reports of the incident inflamed tensions between the two nations.April-August: Francis Parkman traveled from St. Louis, Missouri to Ft. Laramie, Wyoming, and later wrote of the experience in the classic book "The Oregon Trail."May 13: The U.S. Congress declared war against Mexico.February 22: U.S. troops commanded by General Zachary Taylor defeated a Mexican Army at the Battle of Buena Vistain the Mexican War.March 29: U.S. troops commanded by General Winfield Scottcaptured Veracruz in the Mexican War.June 1: Cornelius Vanderbilt, one of America's richest and most competitive men, raced a steamboat against rival Daniel Drew in the Hudson River. Many thousands of New Yorkers lined the city's dock...Late summer: The potato famine continued in Ireland, and the year became known as "Black '47."January 24: James Marshall, a mechanic at John Sutter's sawmill in northern California, recognized some unusual nuggets. His discovery would set off the California Gold Rush.February 23: Former president John Quincy Adams, who served as a U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts after leaving the presidency, died after collapsing in the U.S. Capitol building.July 12-19: A conference at Seneca Falls, New York, organized by Lucretia Mottand Elizbeth Cady Stanton, took up the issue of Women's Rights and planted the seeds of the suffrage movement in the U.S.November 7: Zachary Taylor, Whig candidate and a hero of the Mexican War, was elected President of the United States.March 5: Zachary Taylor was inaugurated as the 12th president of the U.S. He was the third, and last, candidate of the Whig Partyto hold the office.
Los años 1840 fueron una década activa y turbulenta que se extendió desde el 1 de enero de 1840 hasta el 31 de diciembre de 1849 . A lo largo de la década, muchos países (particularmente en Europa) en todo el mundo vieron muchas revueltas y levantamientos, siendo los más importantes en 1848.
William Henry Harrison becomes 9th usa president. William Henry Harrison, an American military officer and politician, was the ninth President of the United States (1841), the oldest President to be elected at the time. On his 32nd day, he became the first to die in office, serving the shortest tenure in U.S. Presidential history.
1840. Historical Events in 1840. Calendar. Home. Events by Year. 1840. Jan uary. Feb ruary. Mar ch. Apr il. May. Jun e. Jul y. Aug ust. Oct ober. Nov ember. Dec ember. Highlights. Events. Birthdays. Deaths. Weddings. Jan 1 1st recorded bowling match in US, Knickerbocker Alleys, NYC.
