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| 1840 |
| | | With Boer help, Mpande removes his brother Dingaan from the Zulu throne and takes his place | |
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| 1840 |
| | | Strawberry Hill passes through the Waldegrave family to John, who marries Frances Braham in 1839, and on his early death to his brother George, the seventh Earl, who marries his brother's widow. | |
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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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