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[[Image:Awful conflagration of the steam boat Lexington.jpg|thumb|200px|''Awful conflagration of the steam boat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday eveg., [[January 13]]th [[1840]], by which melancholy occurence; over 100 persons perished''. Courier lithograph documenting a news event, published three days after the disaster.]] [[Image:Awful conflagration of the steam boat Lexington.jpg|thumb|200px|''Awful conflagration of the steam boat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday eveg., [[January 13]]th [[1840]], by which melancholy occurence; over 100 persons perished''. Courier lithograph documenting a news event, published three days after the disaster.]]
 +[[Image:The Deluge by Danby.jpg|thumb|200px|''[[The Deluge]]'' ([[1840]]) by [[Francis Danby]]]]
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 +Year '''1840''' (MDCCCXL) is the 40th year of the [[19th century]] and the first year of the [[1840s]].
== Art and culture == == Art and culture ==
-*''[[Andromeda and the Nereids]]'' by [[Théodore Chassériau]]+ 
 +*Dr [[Jacques-Joseph Moreau]] began to take an interest in cannabis's properties.
 +*[[Fortsas hoax]]
 +*[[Paris Salon of 1840]]
 +=== Art ===
 +*''[[Andromeda Chained to the Rock by the Nereids]]'' by [[Théodore Chassériau]]
 +*''The Deluge'' by [[Francis Danby]]
 +*[[Sun Setting over a Lake]] (c. 1840) by J. M. W. Turner
 +*[[The Toilet of Esther]] by Theodore Chasseriau
 +=== Literature ===
 +====Fiction====
 +*''[[A Prince of Bohemia]]'' by [[Balzac]]
*''[[The Man of the Crowd]]'' by Poe *''[[The Man of the Crowd]]'' by Poe
-*''[[The Deluge]]'' by [[Francis Danby]] 
*''[[Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque]]'' by Poe *''[[Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque]]'' by Poe
 +====Non fiction====
 +*[[Anatomy of the Breast]]
*''[[What Is Property?]]'' by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon *''[[What Is Property?]]'' by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
-*"[[Buffalo Gals]]" (c. 1840) +*[[John Stuart Mill's 1840 essay on Coleridge]]
-*''[[A Prince of Bohemia]]'' by [[Balzac]]+ 
-*Dr [[Jacques-Joseph Moreau]] began to take an interest in cannabis's properties. +=== Music ===
== Births == == Births ==
 +*[[Auguste Rodin]] (1840 - 1917)
*[[Odilon Redon]] (1840 - 1916) *[[Odilon Redon]] (1840 - 1916)
*[[Richard von Krafft-Ebing]] (1840-1902) *[[Richard von Krafft-Ebing]] (1840-1902)
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*[[Alphonse Daudet]] (1840 - 1897) *[[Alphonse Daudet]] (1840 - 1897)
*[[Gabriel Cornelius von Max]] (1840 - 1915) *[[Gabriel Cornelius von Max]] (1840 - 1915)
 +*[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]] (1840 - 1893)
==Deaths == ==Deaths ==
 +*[[Niccolò Paganini]] (1782 - 1840)
*[[Beau Brummell]] (1778 - 1840) *[[Beau Brummell]] (1778 - 1840)
-*[[Caspar David Friedrich]]+*[[Caspar David Friedrich]] (1774 – 1840)
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