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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 .
Germanic given names are traditionally dithematic; that is, they are formed from two elements, by joining a prefix and a suffix.For example, King Æþelred's name was derived from æþele, meaning "noble", and ræd, meaning "counsel".
Here are the 40 most popular baby boy and 40 most popular baby girl names of the 1940s, according to the Social Security Administration's database. Top 40 baby boy names of the 1940s.
Proving at an early age his aptitude for business, he not only earned his way out of slavery but also became a rich and powerful merchant prince and the founder of the Opobo city-state, his career eventually ended by the British colonizers whom he tried to defy. Anna Kingsley (1793–1870), enslaved woman and then a planter and slave owner herself.
According to historian Daniel Walker Howe, the economic crisis of the late 1830s and early 1840s was the most severe recession in U.S. history until the Great Depression. [50] Van Buren's economic response centered on establishing the Independent Treasury system, essentially a series of vaults that would hold government deposits. [ 51 ]
1840: John Herschel invents the blueprint. [423] 1841: Alexander Bain devises a printing telegraph. [424] 1842: William Robert Grove invents the first fuel cell. 1842: John Bennet Lawes invents superphosphate, the first man-made fertilizer. 1844: Friedrich Gottlob Keller and, independently, Charles Fenerty come up with the wood pulp method of ...