Penny Black / uniform penny post
1840 · Event
Rowland Hill's reform creates the world's first adhesive postage stamp.
On these timelines: Master, Industrial Revolution
Around 1840
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Revolutions of 1848 in Germany (1848)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)