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| 1840 |
| | Swiss scientist Louis Agassiz argues, in his Study on Glaciers, that much of Europe was recently in the grip of an ice age | |
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| 1840 |
| | Napoleon's remains are brought to Paris for burial in Les Invalides, as the Napoleonic legend grows | |
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| 1840 |
| | Robert Schumann composes the song cycle Frauenliebe und -Leben ('Woman's Love and Life') | |
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| 1840 |
| | Queen Victoria gives Kew Gardens to the nation, as a botanic garden of scientific importance | |
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| 1840 |
| | Muhammad Ali, officially viceroy for the Turkish sultan, establishes his own ruling dynasty on the throne of Egypt | |
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| 1840 |
| | Rowland Hill introduces in Britain the world's first postage stamps - the Penny Black and Two Pence Blue | |
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| 1840 |
| | Victoria marries Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and soon, with nine children, they provide the very image of the ideal Victorian family | |
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| 1840 |
| | The first issue of the quarterly magazine The Dial is issued by the Transcendentalists meeting at Ralph Waldo Emerson's home | |
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| 1840 |
| | Robert Schumann marries the pianist Clara Wieck, daughter of his first teacher | |
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| 1840 |
| | The 14-year-old Dom Pedro, son of Pedro I, becomes emperor of Brazil as Pedro II | |
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