What is 1840?
{{Year nav|1840}} {{Year in various calendars|1840}} {{Year article header|1840}} == Events == * The Great Natchez Tornado: A massive tornado hits Natchez, [[Mississippi]]. Before it was over, 317 people had died and 209 were injured. == Births == * [[January 3]]– [[Father Damien]], priest * [[January 18]] – [[Edmund Barton]], 1st [[Prime Minister]] of [[Australia]] (d. [[1920]]) * [[May 7]] – [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]], Russian composer * [[Kuroda Kiyotaka]], Prime Minister of [[Japan]] == Deaths == * [[May 27]] – [[Niccolò Paganini]], Italian violinist and composer [[Category:1840| ]]