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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 |
| | | Napoleon's remains are brought to Paris for burial in Les Invalides, as the Napoleonic legend grows | |
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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 |
| | | 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 14-year-old Dom Pedro, son of Pedro I, becomes emperor of Brazil as Pedro II | |
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| 1848 |
| | | A revolution in Paris in February removes Louis-Philippe and introduces France's second republic | |
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| 1848 |
| | | 18-year-old Francis Joseph becomes emperor of Austria when his uncle, Ferdinand I, abdicates at the end of a year of unrest | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Delegates of the German states offer the imperial crown of a united Germany to Frederick William IV, the king of Prussia, who rejects it | |
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| 1849 |
| | | The Habsburgs recover power in both Austria and Hungary | |
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