1840
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Year 1840 (MDCCCXL) is the 40th year of the 19th century and the first year of the 1840s.
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Art and culture
- Dr Jacques-Joseph Moreau began to take an interest in cannabis's properties.
- Fortsas hoax
- Paris Salon of 1840
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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
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Literature
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Fiction
- A Prince of Bohemia by Balzac
- The Man of the Crowd by Poe
- Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque by Poe
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Non fiction
- Anatomy of the Breast
- What Is Property? by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- John Stuart Mill's 1840 essay on Coleridge
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Music
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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)
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Deaths
- Niccolò Paganini (1782 - 1840)
- Beau Brummell (1778 - 1840)
- Caspar David Friedrich (1774 – 1840)
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