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1840 was a year.
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On 10 February, Queen Victoria married Prince Albert. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary)
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Kew Gardens was formally opened to the public. The Sixth Doctor was attempting to bring Peri Brown to Kew Gardens when he was diverted to Killingworth in the 1820s by the Tremas Master. (TV: The Mark of the Rani)
In London, the Eighth Doctor encountered Spring-heeled Jack, a Hunter who had been sent to Earth in 1837. (COMIC: The Curious Tale of Spring-Heeled Jack)
An incarnation of The Doctor won the Kansas Rodeo for the second time. (PROSE: The Shape on the Chair)
A crofter travelling through the moorlands of Scotland was killed by the Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform that had crash landed 300 years prior. (WC: Tardisode 2, PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia [+]Loading...["Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"])
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Tenskwatawa died miserable and alone. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
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New York City's total population was 312,710. (TV: The Gathering)