Events from the year 1840 in France. Monarch – Louis Philippe I 20 January - Dumont D'Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica. 1 March - Adolphe Thiers...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1840. 1840 (MDCCCXL) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on...

Rhine crisis of 1840 was a diplomatic crisis between the Kingdom of France and the German Confederation, caused by the demand by French minister Adolphe...

of historic monuments protected in 1840 is a list of the historic monuments of France created in 1840 by the French Commission for Historical Monuments...

was finally launched on 4 March 1840. She was decommissioned from 1852 to 1853, when she took back service and served in the Crimean war. On 27 July 1853...

remains of Napoleon I of France from the island of Saint Helena to France and the burial in Hôtel des Invalides in Paris in 1840, on the initiative of Prime...

Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1840, and ended on December 31, 1849. The decade was noted in Europe for featuring the largely unsuccessful...

The year 1840 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. William Whewell publishes The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences...

of the French Navy. Ordered in 1824 as Indomptable and soon renamed Royal Charles, Jemmapes was laid down in 1825 but not completed before 1840. She took...

once again to wage it successfully. In June 1840, the entire Ottoman navy defected to Muhammad Ali, and the French planned to offer full support to his...