1840 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1840 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

10 January - Uniform penny postage introduced.
22 January - British colonists reach New Zealand. Official founding date of Wellington.
6 February - Treaty of Waitangi, document granting British sovereignty in New Zealand, is signed.^[1]
10 February - Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg-Gotha.^[1]
15 April - King's College Hospital opens in Portugal Street, London.
1 May - issue of the Penny Black, the world's first postage stamp.^[2]
4 July - The Cunard Line's 700-ton wooden paddlewheel steamer RMS Britannia departs from Liverpool bound for Halifax , Nova Scotia on the first transatlantic passenger cruise.
15 July - Austria, Britain, Prussia, and Russia sign a London Treaty with the Sublime Porte, ruler of the Ottoman Empire.
23 July - The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
10 September - Ottoman and British troops bombard Beirut and land troops on the coast to pressure Egyptian Muhammad Ali to retreat from the country.
16 September - Joseph Strutt handed over the deeds and papers concerning the Arboretum, which was to become England's first public park.
14 October - Maronite leader Bashir Shihab II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta.
December - Stockport viaduct was completed in this year. It is one of the largest brick structures in Europe.

David Livingstone leaves for Africa.
The foundation stone of the Palace of Westminster is laid as its reconstruction following a fire in 1834 begins.^[2]
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals gains its Royal status.^[2]

6 January - Fanny Burney, novelist (b. 1752)
30 March - Beau Brummell, arbiter of fashion (b. 1778)
1 May - Joseph Williamson, philanthropist and builder of Williamson's tunnels (b. 1769)
26 May - Sidney Smith, admiral (b. 1764)

^ ^a ^b (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
^ ^a ^b ^c Icons, a portrait of England 1840-1860. Retrieved on 2007-09-13.

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