Editing 1840 (section)

=== October–December ===
[[File:Repatriación de las cenizas de Napoleón a bordo de la Belle Poule, por Eugène Isabey.jpg|thumb|right|The frigate Belle-Poule brings back the remains of Napoleon to France.]]
* [[October 7]] – [[William II of the Netherlands|William II]] becomes King of the [[Netherlands]].
* [[October 8]] – A ''[[firman]]'' (imperial decree) of Sultan [[Abdulmejid I]] replaces [[Bashir Shihab II]] as [[Emir of Mount Lebanon]] with [[Bashir III|Prince Bashir Chehab III]] (Bashir Qasim al-Chehab).<ref name=Farah>{{cite book|last1=Farah|first1=Caesar E.|author2=Centre for Lebanese Studies (Great Britain)|title=Politics of Interventionism in Ottoman Lebanon, 1830-1861|date=2000|publisher=I. B. Tauris|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uxkz9D4Ff_sC&q=Falugha+Druze|isbn=9781860640568|pages=41–43}}</ref>
* [[October 11]] – [[Maronite]] leader [[Bashir Shihab II]] surrenders to the Ottomans,<ref name=Farah/> and on October 14 goes into exile, initially in [[Malta]].
* [[November 4]] – [[1840 United States presidential election]]: [[William Henry Harrison]] defeats [[Martin Van Buren]] in a landslide.
* [[December 7]] – [[David Livingstone]] leaves Britain for Africa.
* [[December 15]] – The body of [[Napoleon]] is laid to rest in [[Les Invalides]] in Paris.
* [[December 21]] – [[Stockport Viaduct]] is completed in [[North West England]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Geoffrey O.|last=Holt|title=A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Vol. 10: The North West|location=Newton Abbot|publisher=David and Charles|year=1978|isbn=0-7153-7521-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/northwest0010holt/page/117 117]|url=https://archive.org/details/northwest0010holt/page/117}}</ref> It is one of the largest brick structures in Europe.