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Events Timeline
Orlando includes short event entries, freestanding and embedded in author profiles, about moments and processes relevant to literary history and organized into four categories: Women writers, Writing Climate, Political Climate, and Social Climate. Explore the timelines by searching for date(s) and/or words or phrases associated with them.
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1840: Germany as the centre of studies in chemistry...
1840
Germany as the centre of studies in chemistry because a PhD in chemistry was not available in the UK.
From about 1840: Advertisements first appeared on omnibus...
From about 1840
Advertisements first appeared on omnibuses.
1840: Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov's A Hero of Our...
Writing climate item
1840
's A Hero of Our Times was published in Russian.
1840: The British and North American Royal Mail...
National or international item
1840
The
(later the
) began its regular transatlantic steamer service.
1840: The Great Western Railway first used disc-and-crossbar...
1840
The
first used disc-and-crossbar signals to indicate approaching trains.
Susanna Moodie: 3 January 1840
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Author event in Susanna Moodie
3 January 1840
packed her meagre belongings onto a sleigh and moved her family from the backwoods; they arrived this day in Belleville, Ontario, where her
was sherriff.
Frances Burney: 6 January 1840
Women writers item
Author event in Frances Burney
6 January 1840
On the anniversary of her sister Susan's death,
died in London.
9 January 1840: Welsh Chartist leader John Frost was found...
National or international item
9 January 1840
Welsh Chartist leader
was found guilty of high treason.
10 January 1840: The national penny post was introduced, drastically...
National or international item
10 January 1840
The national penny post was introduced, drastically reducing the cost of and greatly improving postal service.
Elizabeth Gaskell: 11 January 1840
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Gaskell
11 January 1840
first reached print alone when her gothic sketch Clopton Hall was included in
and
's Visits to Remarkable Places.
19 January 1840: Welsh Chartist leaders John Frost, Zephaniah...
National or international item
19 January 1840
Welsh Chartist leaders
,
and
were sentenced to death for high treason.
Sophia Jex-Blake: 21 January 1840
Women writers item
Author event in Sophia Jex-Blake
21 January 1840
was born in Sussex, at her family's home, 3 Croft Place, in Hastings. She was the youngest child of three, having elder siblings Thomas William and Caroline.
Mary Ann Browne: February 1840
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Ann Browne
February 1840
The Dublin University Magazine published its first poetry this year by
: more followed in September and November.
Early 1840: At the time of Queen Victoria's marriage...
Early 1840
At the time of
's marriage to
, the Devon industry of hand-crafted lace-making had so far declined that it was difficult to obtain enough for her wedding dress.
1 February 1840: Death sentences on Welsh Chartist leaders...
National or international item
1 February 1840
Death sentences on Welsh Chartist leaders were commuted to transportation for life.
Charlotte Stopes: 5 February 1840
Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Stopes
5 February 1840
Charlotte Carmichael (later
) was born in Edinburgh, the eldest of five children.
6 February 1840: The Treaty of Waitangi, signed by 512 Maori...
National or international item
6 February 1840
The Treaty of Waitangi, signed by 512 Maori chiefs over the next six months, was interpreted by the British to cede sovereignty of New Zealand to the UK, although the Maori and recent historians...
Queen Victoria: 10 February 1840
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Author event in Queen Victoria
10 February 1840
and
were married in the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace.
Agnes Strickland: Spring 1840
Women writers item
Author event in Agnes Strickland
Spring 1840
Soon after the new queen's wedding,
published
from Her Birth to Her Bridal, an early example of the royal-watching industry.
Jane Porter: 6 a.m. on 10 February 1840
Women writers item
Author event in Jane Porter
6 a.m. on 10 February 1840
, after sitting half an hour in the rain in Pall Mall waiting to see
's wedding procession pass, marked the occasion with a poem.
Harriet Hamilton King: 10 February 1840
Women writers item
Harriet Smythies: After 11 February 1840
Women writers item
Author event in Harriet Smythies
After 11 February 1840
published anonymously Cousin Geoffrey, the Old Bachelor. A Novel. To which is added Claude Stocq, a novel sharing three volumes with the unrelated Claude Stocq: A Tale of the Sixteenth...
Elizabeth Strickland: By 15 February 1840
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Strickland
By 15 February 1840
Publication began of
's best-known work, a twelve-volume collaborative study with her sister Agnes which bore Agnes's name only: Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest.
Agnes Strickland: Early 1840-1848
Women writers item
Author event in Agnes Strickland
Early 1840-1848
The most famous of
's works appeared in twelve successive volumes: Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest, co-written with her sister
but bearing her name alone. The first...
Anna Brownell Jameson: By 15 February 1840
Women writers item
Author event in Anna Brownell Jameson
By 15 February 1840
published Social Life In Germany, Illustrated in the Acted Dramas of Her Royal Highness the .