1838

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Centuries:	18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades:	1800s  1810s  1820s  - 1830s -  1840s  1850s  1860s
Years:	1835 1836 1837 - 1838 - 1839 1840 1841

1838 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Sports - Rail Transport

Countries:         Australia - Canada -

Ireland - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. - UK

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

Year 1838 (MDCCCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1838 1.1 January - March 1.2 April - June 1.3 July - September 1.4 October - December 1.5 Undated 1.6 1838 in Fiction 2 Births 2.1 January - June 2.2 July - December 2.3 Unknown dates 3 Deaths 3.1 January - June 3.2 July - December 3.3 Unknown dates

[edit] Events of 1838

[edit] January - March

[edit] April - June

• April 30 - Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation (See Nicaragua's early history)
• May - The People's Charter drawn up in the United Kingdom demanding universal suffrage.
• May 26 - USA: Trail of Tears - forced relocation of the Cherokee tribe, killing at least 8,000.

[edit] July - September

• 1 August - Trinidad and Tobago: Slavery officially abolished
• 7 September - The paddlesteamer Forfarshire foundered on the Farne Islands, UK, giving rise to the fame of Grace Darling, who rescued nine passengers.

[edit] October - December

• November 3 India: The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce is founded. This paper was later renamed to The Times of India in 1861
• November 5 - Central American Civil War begins with Honduras' separation from the Central American Federation.

[edit] Undated

• Pastry War: Mexico invaded by French forces
• Yucatan declares independence from Mexico
• First British-Afghan War begins
• Proteins discovered by Jöns Jakob Berzelius
• Friedrich Bessel makes the first accurate measurement of distance to a star.
• Biblical criticism: Christian Hermann Weisse proposes the two-source hypothesis.
• Regular Atlantic steamship service begins with the SS Great Western

[edit] 1838 in Fiction

F. W. Murnau's film, Nosferatu is set in 1838

[edit] Births

1838 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1838 MDCCCXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2591
Armenian calendar	1287 ԹՎ ՌՄՁԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-6 – -5
Buddhist calendar	2382
Chinese calendar	4474/4534-12-6 (丁酉年十二月初六日) — to — 4475/4535-11-15 (戊戌年十一月十五日)
Ethiopian calendar	1830 – 1831
Hebrew calendar	5598 – 5599
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1893 – 1894
- Shaka Samvat	1760 – 1761
- Kali Yuga	4939 – 4940
Holocene calendar	11838
Iranian calendar	1216 – 1217
Islamic calendar	1253 – 1254
Japanese calendar	Tenpō 9 (天保9年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2498 (皇紀2498年)
- Jōmon Era	11838
Julian calendar	1883
Korean calendar	4171
Thai solar calendar	2381
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[edit] January - June

• January 4 - General Tom Thumb, American circus performer and entertainer (d. 1883)
• January 6 - Max Bruch, German composer (d. 1920)
• January 16 - Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
• February 6 - Henry Irving, English actor (d. 1905)
• February 10 - Gustav Oelwein, founder of Oelwein, Iowa (d. 1913)
• February 16 - Henry Adams, American historian (d. 1918)
• February 16 - Ōkuma Shigenobu - Japanese politician (d. 1922)
• February 18 - Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1916)
• March 3 - George William Hill, American astronomer (d. 1914)
• April 3 - John Willis Menard, African-American politician (d. 1893)
• April 8 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German inventor (d. 1917)
• April 16 - Martha McClellan Brown, American temperance movement leader (d. 1916)
• April 28 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1913)
• April 21 - John Muir, American ecologist (d. 1914)
• May 10 - John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin (d. 1865)
• May 20 - Jules Méline, French statesman (d. 1925)

[edit] July - December

• September 2 - Liliuokalani of Hawai'i, last Queen of Hawaii (d. 1917)
• October 6 - Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910)
• October 25 - Georges Bizet, French composer (d. 1875)
• October 31 - King Luis I of Portugal (d. 1889)
• November 7 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889)
• November 13 - Joseph Fielding Smith, tenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1918)
• December 19 - Khedrup Gyatso, eleventh Dalai Lama (d. 1856)
• December 20 - Edwin Abbott Abbott, theologian and author (d. 1926)
• December 30 - Émile Loubet, 7th President of France (d. 1929)

[edit] Unknown dates

• Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (d. 1916)
• John S. Billings, M.D., American military and medical leader (d. 1913)

See also Category: 1838 births.

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January - June

• January 5 - Anthony Van Egmond, A Rebel leader in Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837 {died in jail}
• May 17 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754)

[edit] July - December

• August 21 - Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (b. 1781)
• September 1 - William Clark, American explorer (b. 1770)
• November 21 - Georges Mouton, count of Lobau, Marshal of France (b. 1770)

[edit] Unknown dates

• (none)

See also Category: 1838 deaths.