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| 1840 |
| | | William Henry Harrison wins the US presidential election as the Whig candidate, but dies 30 days after taking office | |
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| 1840 |
| | | US lawyer Richard Henry Dana has immediate popular success with Two Years Before the Mast, his account of his time as a merchant seaman | |
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| 1841 |
| | | Herman Melville goes to sea on the whaler Acushnet and spends moe than a year in the south Pacific | |
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| 1841 |
| | | The Straits Convention, agreed between the European powers and Turkey, is a concerted attempt to prop up the Ottoman empire | |
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| 1841 |
| | | Robert Peel replaces Lord Melbourne as prime minister after a Conservative victory in the British general election | |
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| 1841 |
| | | August Dupin solves the case in Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue, considered to be the first example of a detective story | |
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| 1841 |
| | | Fox Talbot patents the 'calotype', introducing the negative-positive process that becomes standard in photography | |
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| 1841 |
| | | Brook Farm, the most famous of the Charles Fourier phalanxes, is established at Dedham near Boston | |
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| 1841 |
| | | Horace Greeley founds and edits the New-York Tribune, which will survive for more than a century (till 1966 | |
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| 1841 |
| | | On the sudden death of US president William Henry Harrison, from pneumonia, he is succeeded in the office by his vice-president John Tyler | |
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