This Year in History:
1840
Discover what happened in this year with HISTORY’s summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths.
During an exploring expedition, Captain Charles Wilkes sights the coast of eastern Antarctica and claims it for the United States. Wilkes’ group had set out in 1838, sailing around South…
On January 22, 1840, colonists aboard The New Zealand Company’s ship, the Aurora, become the first European settlers to arrive at Petone to found the settlement that would become Wellington. In…
