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Events from the year 1840 in the United States. Incumbents. Federal government President: ... Timeline of United States history (1820–1859) References
U.S. territorial extent in 1860. April 3, 1860 – Pony Express begins. November 6 – 1860 United States presidential election: Abraham Lincoln elected president and Hannibal Hamlin vice president with only 39% of the vote in a four-man race. December 18 – Crittenden Compromise fails. December 20 – President Buchanan fires his cabinet.
U.S. territorial extent in 1840. 1840 – 1840 United States presidential election: William Henry Harrison is elected president; John Tyler is elected vice president. 1841 – John Quincy Adams argues the Amistad Case before the Supreme Court.
May 31 – Peter Vivian Daniel, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1841 to 1860 (born 1784) June 6 – Henry P. Haun, U.S. Senator from California from 1859 to 1860 (born 1815) July 1 – Charles Goodyear, inventor (born 1800) September 12 – William Walker, filibuster, briefly President of Nicaragua, executed (born 1824)
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1840: The U.S. slave population according to the 1840 United States census is 2,487,000. [82] The abolitionist Liberty Party nominates James G. Birney of Kentucky for President. [124] William Henry Harrison wins the 1840 Presidential election. [125] Arthur Tappan and Lewis Tappan organize the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. [126] 1841
Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; ... Timeline of the history of the United States (1820–1859) 0–9. 1840 in the United States;
The 1840s (pronounced "eighteen-forties") was a decade of the 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 Revolutions of 1848, also known as the Springtime of Nations.