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| 1840 |
| | | Robert Schumann marries the pianist Clara Wieck, daughter of his first teacher | |
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| 1840 |
| | | St Peter’s, in Petersham, is almost doubled in size, with new galleries and a much enlarged south transept | |
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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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| 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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| c. 1840 |
| | | Four new boathouses are built by Richmond Bridge, to be occupied chiefly by the watermen families of the Chittys, the Peasleys and the Wheelers, for boat-hiring and boatbuilding. | |
|  | Richmond Bridge Boathouses, before 1859
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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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