1840s
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Technology
- The use of wood to make pulp for paper began
- First use of general anesthesia in an operation, by Crawford Long
- The first electrical telegraph sent by Samuel Morse on May 24, 1844 from Baltimore to Washington, D.C..
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Art and culture
- Wave of revolutions in Europe. Collectively known as the Revolution of 1848. This led to mass emigration of these refugees into industrial cities of the United States as well as to other locations around the world.
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels writes The Communist Manifesto, first published on February 21, 1848.
- John Stuart Mill writes The Principles of Political Economy, first published in 1848
- Søren Kierkegaard publishes Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, Philosophical Fragments and The Sickness Unto Death
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Deaths
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