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Centuries: 18th century
- 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s - 1840s - 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
Years: 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 - 1843 -
1844 1845 1846
1847 1848
Events
Year in topic
Births
- January 10 - Frank
James, American outlaw (d. 1915)
- January 29 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (d. 1901
- April 4 - William Jackson, photographer
- April 25 - Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
- June 3 - Frederick VIII of Denmark, King
- June 9 - Bertha von
Suttner, winner of 1905 Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1914)
- June 15 - Edvard Grieg,
composer (d. 1907)
- June 30 - Sir Ernest Satow,
British diplomat and scholar in East Asia
- July 29 - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (d. 1901)
- August 1 - Robert Todd Lincoln, American statesman, businessman (d. 1926)
- November 27 - Elizabeth Stride, third confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
- November 27 – Cornelius Vanderbilt II,
railway magnate (d. 1899)
- December 11 - Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (d. 1910)
Deaths
Heads of State
- China - Daoguang Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (September 2,
1820 to February 25, 1850)
- Denmark - Christian VIII, King of Denmark
(December 13, 1839 to January 20, 1848)
- France - Louis-Phillippe, King of the
French (August 1, 1830 to February 24, 1848)
- Norway - Charles III, King of Norway (1818-1844)
- Ottoman Empire - Abd-ul-Mejid, Sultan of the
Ottoman Empire (July 2, 1839 to June
25, 1861)
- Prussia - Frederick William IV, King of
Prussia (1840-1861)
- Russia - Nicholas
I, Tsar of Russia (December 26, 1825 to March 2,
1855)
- Spain - Isabella
II, Queen of Spain (September 29, 1833 to September, 1868)
- United States - John
Tyler, President of the United
States (April 4, 1841 to March 4, 1845
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