1839
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Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s
Years: 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 - 1839 - 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844
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[edit] Events
- January 19 - British East India Company captures Aden
- January 20 - In the Battle of Yungay, Peruvian and Bolivian soldiers lose to Chilean soldiers.
- February 24 - William Otis patents for the steam shovel
- March 23 - First known use of "OK" oll korrect in the Boston Morning Post
- March 26 - The first Henley Royal Regatta
- April 9 - The world's first commercial electric telegraph line is built, next to the Great Western Railway line from Paddington station to West Drayton.
- April 19 - The Treaty of London makes the kingdom of Belgium
- June 22 - Louis Daguerre receives patent for his Daguerrotype camera. By September a company sells copies of the camera for 400 French Francs.
- July 1 - Slaves fight their masters on the Amistad
- November 11 - The Virginia Military Institute starts in Lexington, Virginia, USA
- November 17 - Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio opens in Milan.
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- Abd-ul-Mejid becomes emperor of the Ottoman Empire.
- Mississippi passes the first state law in the U.S. letting women own property.
- The first parallax measurement of the distance to Alpha Centauri is found by Thomas Henderson.
- Excavation on Copan begins
- Half of the Limburg province of Belgium was added to the Netherlands, making a Belgian Limburg and Dutch Limburg.
- Abd al-Kader makes a jihad against the French.
[edit] Births
- January 19 - Paul Cézanne, French painter (died 1906)
- February 11 - Josiah Willard Gibbs American physicist and chemist (died 1903)
- February 22 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (died 1906)
- March 9 - Phoebe Knapp, American hymnwriter (died 1908)
- March 21 - Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer (died 1881)
- April 12 - Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (died 1888)
- July 8 - John Davison Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist (died 1937)
- July 17 - Ephraim Shay, Inventor (died 1916, see Shay locomotive)
- December 5 - George Armstrong Custer, American cavalry officer (died 1876)
[edit] Deaths
- April 1 - Benjamin Pierce, U.S. politician (born 1757)
- April 2 - Hezekiah Niles, American editor and publisher (born 1777)
- April 11 - John Galt, Scottish novelist (born 1779)
- May 17 - Archibald Alison, Scottish author (born 1757)
- August 10 - John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (born 1758)
- August 22 - Benjamin Lundy, American abolitionist (born 1789)
- August 28 - William Smith, English geologist and cartographer (born 1769)
- November 15 - William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (born 1754)
- December 3 - Frederick VI, King of Denmark, ex-King of Norway (born 1768)
