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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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| 1841 |
| | | Brook Farm, the most famous of the Charles Fourier phalanxes, is established at Dedham near Boston | |
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| 1841 |
| | | US social reformer Catherine Beecher publishes an influential book to empower women, Treatise on Domestic Economy | |
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| 1843 |
| | | Henry Cole commissions 1000 copies of the world's first Christmas card, designed for him by John Calcott Horsley | |
|  | Cole's Christmas card
Victoria and Albert Museum
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| 1844 |
| | | In his novel Coningsby Benjamin Disraeli develops the theme of Conservatism uniting 'two nations', the rich and the poor | |
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| 1844 |
| | | Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels meet in Paris and become life-long friends | |
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| 1845 |
| | | A blight destroys the potato crop in Ireland and causes what becomes known as the Great Famine | |
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| c. 1845 |
| | | Queen Victoria and Prince Albert follow the German custom of a family Christmas tree, immediately making it popular in Britain | |
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| 1846 |
| | | Landlords in Scotland begin to clear crofters from Highland estates so as to provide pasture for sheep | |
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| 1846 |
| | | Members of the Donner Party, on the trail to California, survive by eating human flesh when trapped by snow in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada | |
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