1835
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This article is about the year 1835.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
| Decades: | 1800s 1810s 1820s – 1830s – 1840s 1850s 1860s |
| Years: | 1832 1833 1834 – 1835 – 1836 1837 1838 |
| 1835 in topic: |
| Humanities |
| Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature – Music |
| By country |
| Australia – Canada – France – Germany – Mexico – South Africa – US – UK |
| Other topics |
| Rail Transport – Science – Sports |
| Lists of leaders |
| Colonial Governors – State leaders |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births – Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Works category |
| Works |
| Gregorian calendar | 1835 MDCCCXXXV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2588 |
| Armenian calendar | 1284 ԹՎ ՌՄՁԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6585 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -9–-8 |
| Bengali calendar | 1242 |
| Berber calendar | 2785 |
| British Regnal year | 5 Will. 4 – 6 Will. 4 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2379 |
| Burmese calendar | 1197 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7343–7344 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲午年十二月初三日 (4471/4531-12-3) — to —
乙未年十一月十二日(4472/4532-11-12) |
| Coptic calendar | 1551–1552 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1827–1828 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5595–5596 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1891–1892 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1757–1758 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4936–4937 |
| Holocene calendar | 11835 |
| Iranian calendar | 1213–1214 |
| Islamic calendar | 1250–1251 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenpō 6 (天保6年) |
| Korean calendar | 4168 |
| Minguo calendar | 77 before ROC 民前77年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2378 |
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Year 1835 (MDCCCXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–March
- January 7 – HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago on the voyage of 1831–1836 with Charles Darwin.
- January 8 – The United States public debt contracts to $0 for the only time in history[1]
- January 30 – An assassination is attempted against President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol (the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States).
- February 1 – Slavery is abolished in Mauritius.
- February 20 – Concepción, Chile, is destroyed by an earthquake.
- March 2 – Ferdinand becomes Emperor of Austria.
- March 23 – The Mexican Academy of Language is established.
[edit] April–June
- April 18 – Lord Melbourne succeeds Sir Robert Peel as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- May 5
- Rail transport in Belgium: a railway is opened between Brussels and Mechelen, the first in continental Europe.
- Braulio Carrillo is sworn in as Head of State of Costa Rica.
- May 23 – The Mexican State of Aguascalientes is formed by decree of President Santa Anna.
- June 1 – Kingston Penitentiary in Kingston, Ontario opens.
- June 8 – The Australian city of Melbourne is founded by John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner.[2]
[edit] July–September
- July 14 – Organisation of the universal Catholic Apostolic Church, initially in the U.K.
- August – H. Fox Talbot exposes the world's first known photographic negatives at Lacock Abbey in England.[3]
- August 25 – In the U.S., the New York Sun prints the first of six installments of the Great Moon Hoax.
- August 28 – Castleknock College is founded by the Vincentian order in Dublin, Ireland.
- September 7 – Charles Darwin arrives at the Galapagos Islands aboard the HMS Beagle.
- September 19 – William Lloyd Garrison publishes Angelina Grimké's anti-slavery letter in The Liberator.
- September 20 – Farroupilha's Revolution begins in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
[edit] October–December
- October 2 – Texas Revolution – Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
- October 3 – Staedtler Company founded by J.S. Staedtler in Nuremberg, Germany.
- October 28 – United Tribes of New Zealand founded at Waitangi with the Declaration of Independence of New Zealand.
- November 16 – Comet Halley reaches perihelion, its closest approach to the sun.
- November 19 – A force of 500 Māori people invade and enslave the peoples of the Chatham Islands.
- December 1 – Hans Christian Andersen publishes his first book of fairy tales.
- December 7
- The Bavarian Ludwig Railway opens between Nuremberg and Fürth, with a train hauled by Der Adler ("The Eagle"), the first railway in Germany.
- Future U.S. President James K. Polk becomes Speaker of the House
- December 9 – The Army of the Republic of Texas captures San Antonio.
- December 16–December 17 – The Great Fire of New York destroys 530 buildings, including the New York Stock Exchange.
- December 20 – The Texas Declaration of Independence is first signed at Goliad, Texas.
- December 21 – The Raleigh and Gaston Railroad is chartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.[4]
- December 28 – USA: The Second Seminole War breaks out.
- December 29 – The Treaty of New Echota is signed between the United States Government and members of the Cherokee Nation.
[edit] Date unknown
- The British Geological Survey is founded as the world's first national geological survey.
- Civil war erupts in Uruguay between supporters of Blanco and Colorado parties.
- The Cachar Levy, forerunner of the Assam Rifles, is founded in India.
- The first Bulgarian-language school opens in the Ottoman Empire.
- The French word for their language changes to français, from françois.
- Fort Cass is established, the military headquarters and site of the largest internment camps during the 1838 Trail of Tears.
- Charles-Louis Havas creates Havas, the first news agency in the world (which later spawns Agence France-Presse).
- English becomes the official language of India.
- Juan Manuel de Rosas becomes Caudillo of Argentina.
- Edward Strutt Abdy publishes his Journal of a Residence and Tour in the United States of North America: From April, 1833, to October 1834.
[edit] Births
[edit] January–June
- February 13 – Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (d. 1908)
- February 15 – Demetrius Vikelas, Greek International Olympic Committee president (d. 1908)
- February 18 – César Cui, Lithuanian composer (d. 1918)
- March 4 – John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (d. 1911)
- March 12 – Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American Astronomer (d. 1909)
- March 14 – Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (d. 1910)
- March 15 – Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (d. 1916)
- March 24 – Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist, mathematician, and poet (d. 1893)
- April 9 – King Léopold II of Belgium (d. 1909)
- May 3 – Alfred Austin, English poet (d. 1913)
- May 21 – František Chvostek, Moravian physician (d. 1884)
- June 2 – Pope Pius X, (d. 1914)
- June 15 – Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress (d. 1868)
- June 26 – Thomas W. Knox, American author and journalist (d. 1896)
[edit] July–December
- July 7 – Ernest Giles, Australian explorer (d. 1897)
- July 10 – Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (d. 1880)
- July 27 – Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)
- August 2 – Elisha Gray, American inventor and businessman (d. 1901)
- September 30 – Mark Twain, American author and humorist (d. 1910)
- October 7 – Felix Draeseke, German composer (d. 1913)
- October 9 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)
- October 23 – Adlai E. Stevenson, Vice President of the United States (d. 1914)
- October 31 – Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917)
- November 17 – Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (d. 1915)
- November 19 – Rani Lakshmi Bai, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1858)
- November 21 – Hetty Green, American businesswoman (d. 1916)
- November 25 – Andrew Carnegie, American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1919)
- November 29 – Empress Dowager Cixi of China (d. 1908)
- December 4 – Samuel Butler, English writer (d. 1902)
- December 17 – Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist, son of Louis Agassiz (d. 1910)
- December 18 – Lyman Abbott, American clergyman and author (d. 1922)
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January–June
- January 1 – Mátyás Godina, writer, teacher and pastor (b. 1768)
- February 8 – Guillaume Dupuytren, anatomist and military surgeon (b. 1777)
- February 15 – Henry Hunt, British politician (b. 1773)
- March 2 – Emperor Francis I of Austria (b. 1768)
- March 18 – Christian Gunther von Bernstorff, Danish and Prussian statesman and diplomat (b. 1769)
- March 30 – Richard Sharp MP, known as 'Conversation Sharp' London merchant, critic, poet and wit.
- April 1 – Józef Zeydlitz, Polish military leader (b. 1755)
- April 8 – Wilhelm von Humboldt, German linguist and philosopher (b. 1767)
- April 10 – Saint Magdalen of Canossa (b. 1774)
- April 21 – Samuel Slater, American industrialist (b. 1768)
- May 13 – John Nash, English architect (b. 1752)
- June 18 – William Cobbett, English journalist and author (b. 1763)
[edit] July–December
- July 6 – John Marshall, influential American Chief Justice (b. 1755)
- July 28 – Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (b. 1768)
- September 23
- Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (b. 1801)
- Georg Adlersparre, Swedish military leader (b. 1760)
- November 29 – Princess Catharina of Württemberg, wife of Jerome Bonaparte (b. 1783)
- December 13 – John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1760)
- December 17 – Pierre Louis Roederer, French politician, economist, and historian (b. 1754)
[edit] References
- ^ www.publicdebt.treas.gov
- ^ Melbourne.vic.gov.au
- ^ Robertson, Patrick (1974). The Shell Book of Firsts. London: Ebury Press. pp. 127–8. ISBN 0-7181-1279-2.
- ^ "Railroads — prior to the Civil War". North Carolina Business History. 2006. http://www.historync.org/railroads.htm. Retrieved 2011-12-02.
