1840  

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Awful conflagration of the steam boat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday eveg., January 13th 1840, by which melancholy occurence; over 100 persons perished. Courier lithograph documenting a news event, published three days after the disaster.

The Deluge (1840) by Francis Danby

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Year 1840 (MDCCCXL) is the 40th year of the 19th century.

Art and culture

• Dr Jacques-Joseph Moreau began to take an interest in cannabis's properties.
• Fortsas hoax

Art

• Andromeda Chained to the Rock by the Nereids by Théodore Chassériau
• The Deluge by Francis Danby

Literature

• A Prince of Bohemia by Balzac
• What Is Property? by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
• The Man of the Crowd by Poe
• Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque by Poe

Music

• "Buffalo Gals" (c. 1840)

Births

• Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917)
• Odilon Redon (1840 - 1916)
• Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902)
• Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)
• Émile Zola (1840 - 1902)
• Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928)
• Alphonse Daudet (1840 - 1897)
• Gabriel Cornelius von Max (1840 - 1915)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)

Deaths

• Niccolò Paganini (1782 - 1840)
• Beau Brummell (1778 - 1840)
• Caspar David Friedrich (1774 – 1840)