1840s
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"The first time that we met Baudelaire was towards the middle of the year 1849, at the Hotel Pimodan, where we occupied, near Fernand Boissard, a strange apartment which communicated with his by a private staircase hidden in the thickness of the wall, and which was haunted by the spirits of beautiful women loved long since by Lauzun."--Théophile Gautier's preface to Les Fleurs du mal |
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The 1840s decade is the 4th decade of the 19th century. It comprises the years 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, 1845, 1846, 1847, 1848 and 1849.
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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..
Art and culture
- Cultural movements: bohemianism - Club des Hashischins - Victorian age
- Technological developments: illustrated newspapers - daguerrotype
- Literary scene: Honoré de Balzac - Victor Hugo - Ludwig Feuerbach - Nikolai Gogol - Charles Baudelaire - Søren Kierkegaard - Edgar Allan Poe - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Eugène Sue
- The world's first illustrated newspaper, the invention of the daguerrotype and other advances in the field of mechanical reproduction led to the development of a visual culture that would be of prime importance to later art movements such as impressionism.
- In Paris - the capital of the artistic world - Bohemianism, a romanticized image of the struggling artist is developed as a concept in the works of Honoré de Balzac and others.
- Rain, Steam and Speed (1844) by William Turner, a a precursor to Impressionism
- Vicomtesse d’Haussonville (1845) - Ingres
- 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
- First wave of drug writing in France, see Club des Hashischins
- Un autre monde by Grandville
- The Great Sphinx of Giza (photo by Maxime Du Camp), 1849
- What Is Property?, 1840, by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- The Essence of Christianity (1841) by Ludwig Feuerbach
- "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) by Edgar Allan Poe
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841) by Charles Mackay
- The Mysteries of Paris (1842) by Eugène Sue
- Byron and Sade are perhaps the two greatest inspirations of our moderns (1843) wrote French literary critic Sainte-Beuve
- Un autre monde (1844) by Grandville
- "The Imp of the Perverse" (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe Poe
- "Club des Hachichins" (1846) by Gautier
- Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (1847) inaugurated in Brussels
- 1847: The Brontë sisters publish Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey.
- 1848: John Ruskin marries Effie Gray
- 1849 - La Vie de bohème by Murger staged at the Théâtre des Variétés
Births
Odilon Redon - Richard von Krafft-Ebing - Claude Monet - Émile Zola - Henry James - Anthony Comstock - Friedrich Nietzsche - Thomas Eakins - Henri Rousseau - Comte de Lautréamont - Thomas Edison - Octave Mirbeau - Joris Karl Huysmans
Deaths
