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Events from the year 1840 in the United Kingdom.
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- 10 January - Uniform Penny Post 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]
- 10 June - Edward Oxford attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria.[3]
- 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.
- 7 August - Chimney Sweeps Act 1840 prohibits the employment of children under the age of 21 as chimney sweeps.[1]
- 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.
- 30 September - the foundation of Nelson's Column laid.[1]
- 14 October - Maronite leader Bashir Shihab II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta.
- 25 October - First railway timetable published.[3]
- December - Stockport Viaduct was completed in this year. It is one of the largest brick structures in Europe.
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