1840 in Germany

none 1840Events from the year 1840 in Germany Incumbents Kingdom of Prussia Monarch – Frederick William III (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)Tikkanen Amy 30 July 2018 Federick William III https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-William-III 2022-09-21 Encyclopaedia Britannica Friedrich Wilhelm IV (7 June 1840 – 2 January 1861) Kingdom of Bavaria Monarch – Ludwig I (1825–1848) Prime Minister – Karl von Abel (1837–1847) Kingdom of Saxony Frederick Augustus (1836–1854) Kingdom of Hanover– Ernest Augustus (1837–1851)Van der Kiste 2004 189 Kingdom of Württemberg – William (1816–1864) Events June 7 – On the death of Frederick William III of Prussia, he is succeeded on the throne of the Kingdom of Prussia (which he has ruled for more than 40 years) by his eldest son Frederick William IV. July 15 – The Austrian Empire, the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Russian Empire sign the Convention of London with the Sublime Porte, ruler of the Ottoman Empire. The Rhine crisis of 1840 was a diplomatic crisis between the Kingdom of France and the German Confederation. Births thumb|110px|Ernst Abbe January 23 – Ernst Abbe, German physicist (d. 1905) February 22 – August Bebel, German politician (d. 1913) March 8 – Eduard von Knorr, German admiral (d. 1920) March 16 – Georg von der Gabelentz, German linguist and sinologist (d. 1893)Jankowsky K.R. Brown Keith Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 24 November 2005 Elsevier 978-0-08-054784-8 2nd https://books.google.com/books?id=cxYGQfiD_1oC&pg=PT7352 7 October 2021 Gabelentz, H. Georg Conon von der (1840–1893) Google Books March 28 – Emin Pasha, German doctor, African administrator (d. 1892) July 2 – Ludwig Rosenthal, German antiquarian bookseller (d. 1928) August 4 – Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German sexologist (d. 1902) Deaths thumb|110px|Caspar David Friedrich thumb|110px|right|Frederick William III of Prussia January 22 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752) March 2 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (b. 1758), German astronomer. May 7 – Caspar David Friedrich, German artist (b. 1774) May 11 – Eduard Joseph d'Alton, German engraver and naturalist (b. 1772) May 14 – Carl Ludvig Engel, German-Finnish architect (b. 1778) June 7 – King Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770) July 4 – Karl Ferdinand von Gräfe (born 1787), German surgeon. July 6 – Johann Heinrich Ramberg, German painter and printmaker (b. 1763) July 23 – Carl Blechen, German painter, specializing in fantastic landscapes with demons and grotesque figures (b. 1798) August 25 – Karl Leberecht Immermann, German novelist, dramatist (b. 1796)Isabel T. Lublin Primer of German Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=Ha9MAAAAYAAJ 1904 Swan Sonnenschein 213 References Bibliography Van der Kiste John John Van der Kiste 2004 George III's Children revised Sutton Publishing Ltd Stroud, United Kingdom 978-0-7509-3438-1 Category:Years of the 19th century in Germany Germany Germany