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1839
 
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Abd-el-Kader proclaims a holy war against the French in Algeria and begins a military campaign that will last for eight years      
1839
 
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Joseph Smith and the Mormons create the thriving town of Nauvoo in Illinois on the Mississippi       
1839
 
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Andries Pretorius sets up the Boer republic of Natalia, with its capital at Pietermaritzburg        
1839
 
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Lord Durham produces his Report on the Affairs of British North America, proposing reforms in the administration of Canada       
1839
 
   
British troops invade China after the Chinese authorities seize and destroy the opium stocks of British merchants in Canton      
1839
 
   
Polish composer Frédéric Chopin completes his Preludes under difficult conditions in Majorca      
1839
 
   
In the Bedchamber Crisis, Queen Victoria shows steely determination in refusing to dismiss politically committed ladies of her bedchamber      
1839
 
   
British forces capture Hong Kong, which is subsequently ceded to Britain by China at the end of the first Opium War in 1842      
1839
 
    
The French painter Gustave Courbet moves from his native town of Ornans to Paris       
1840
 
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With Boer help, Mpande removes his brother Dingaan from the Zulu throne and takes his place       
1840
 
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Swiss scientist Louis Agassiz argues, in his Study on Glaciers, that much of Europe was recently in the grip of an ice age        
1840
 
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Napoleon's remains are brought to Paris for burial in Les Invalides, as the Napoleonic legend grows       
1840
 
    
Robert Schumann composes the song cycle Frauenliebe und -Leben ('Woman's Love and Life')       
1840
 
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Queen Victoria gives Kew Gardens to the nation, as a botanic garden of scientific importance    See in Google maps   
1840
 
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Muhammad Ali, officially viceroy for the Turkish sultan, establishes his own ruling dynasty on the throne of Egypt      
1840
 
     
Rowland Hill introduces in Britain the world's first postage stamps - the Penny Black and Two Pence Blue        
1840
 
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Victoria marries Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and soon, with nine children, they provide the very image of the ideal Victorian family       
1840
 
     
The first issue of the quarterly magazine The Dial is issued by the Transcendentalists meeting at Ralph Waldo Emerson's home        
1840
 
    
Robert Schumann marries the pianist Clara Wieck, daughter of his first teacher       
1840
 
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The 14-year-old Dom Pedro, son of Pedro I, becomes emperor of Brazil as Pedro II      
1840
 
    
William Henry Harrison wins the US presidential election as the Whig candidate, but dies 30 days after taking office       
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       
1841
 
    
Herman Melville goes to sea on the whaler Acushnet and spends moe than a year in the south Pacific       
1841
 
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The Straits Convention, agreed between the European powers and Turkey, is a concerted attempt to prop up the Ottoman empire       
1841
 
    
Robert Peel replaces Lord Melbourne as prime minister after a Conservative victory in the British general election       
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        
1841
 
    
Fox Talbot patents the 'calotype', introducing the negative-positive process that becomes standard in photography       
1841
 
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Brook Farm, the most famous of the Charles Fourier phalanxes, is established at Dedham near Boston       
1841
 
    
Horace Greeley founds and edits the New-York Tribune, which will survive for more than a century (till 1966       
1841
 
    
On the sudden death of US president William Henry Harrison, from pneumonia, he is succeeded in the office by his vice-president John Tyler