Thomas Hardy
1840–1928 · Person
English novelist and poet of Wessex; author of Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
On these timelines: Master, England, People, United Kingdom (combined)
Around 1840
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Industrial Revolution ends (1840)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Victorian era (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Irish Potato Famine (1845)
- Revolutions of 1848 in Germany (1848)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)