1840 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1840th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 840th year of the 2nd millennium, the 40th year of the 19th century, and the 1st year of the 1840s decade. As of the start of 1840, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead …

Hans Makart (28 May 1840 – 3 October 1884) was a 19th-century Austrian academic history painter, designer, and decorator.He is best known for his influence on Gustav Klimt and other Austrian artists, but in his own era he was considered an important artist himself and a celebrity figure in the high culture of Vienna and attended with almost cult-like adulation.

The 1840 United States presidential election was the 14th quadrennial presidential election, held from Friday, October 30 to Wednesday, December 2, 1840.Economic recovery from the Panic of 1837 was incomplete, and Whig nominee William Henry Harrison defeated incumbent President Martin Van Buren of the Democratic Party.The election marked the first of two Whig victories in …

Niccolò Paganini, né le 27 octobre 1782 à Gênes et mort le 27 mai 1840 à Nice, est un violoniste, altiste, guitariste et compositeur génois.. Par sa technique exceptionnelle, il a contribué à l'histoire du violon, mais également à intégrer la dimension virtuose dans l'art, dont il est un des représentants les plus célèbres, attirant à lui d'autres compositeurs romantiques, tel ...

A pneumatic motor (air motor), or compressed air engine, is a type of motor which does mechanical work by expanding compressed air.Pneumatic motors generally convert the compressed air energy to mechanical work through either linear or rotary motion. Linear motion can come from either a diaphragm or piston actuator, while rotary motion is supplied by either …

Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski ou Tchaïkovsky (en russe : Пётр Ильич Чайковский [a], / ˈ p ʲ o t r ɪ l ʲ ˈ j i t͡ɕ t͡ɕ ɪ j ˈ k o f s k ʲ ɪ j / [1] Écouter) est un compositeur russe de l’époque romantique né le 25 avril 1840 (7 mai 1840 dans le calendrier grégorien) à Votkinsk et mort le 25 octobre 1893 (6 novembre 1893 dans le calendrier grégorien) à Saint ...

Coir (/ ˈ k ɔɪər /), also called coconut fibre, is a natural fibre extracted from the outer husk of )§coconut and used in products such as floor mats, doormats, brushes and mattresses and from cotton flax plant was discovered. Coir is the fibrous material found between the hard, internal shell and the outer coat of a coconut. Other uses of brown coir (made from ripe coconut) are in ...

Le 12 novembre est le 316 e jour de l'année du calendrier grégorien, le 317 e en cas d'année bissextile.. Il symbolise à ce titre la période d'apparition des premières cellules de type eucaryote (à noyaux) dans le calendrier cosmique de l'astronome Carl Sagan (en proportion déjà plus de dix mois après le 1 er janvier symbolisant quant à lui le Big bang).

The Damascus affair occurred in 1840 when a French monk and his servant disappeared in Damascus. Immediately following, a charge of ritual murder was brought against a large number of Jews in the city including children who were tortured. The consuls of the United Kingdom, ...