1838
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This article is about the year 1838.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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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: |
| Humanities |
| Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature – Music |
| By country |
| Australia – Canada – France – Germany – Mexico – South Africa – US – UK |
| Other topics |
| Rail Transport – Science – Sports |
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| Colonial Governors – State leaders |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births – Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments – Disestablishments |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1838 MDCCCXXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2591 |
| Armenian calendar | 1287 ԹՎ ՌՄՁԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6588 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -6–-5 |
| Bengali calendar | 1245 |
| Berber calendar | 2788 |
| British Regnal year | 1 Vict. 1 – 2 Vict. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2382 |
| Burmese calendar | 1200 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7346–7347 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁酉年十二月初六日 (4474/4534-12-6) — to —
戊戌年十一月十五日(4475/4535-11-15) |
| Coptic calendar | 1554–1555 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1830–1831 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5598–5599 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1894–1895 |
| - 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) |
| Korean calendar | 4171 |
| Minguo calendar | 74 before ROC 民前74年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2381 |
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Year 1838 (MDCCCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–March
- January 10 – A fire destroys Lloyd's Coffee House and the Royal Exchange in London.
[edit] April–June
- April 4–April 22 – The paddle steamer SS Sirius (1837) makes the Transatlantic Crossing to New York from Cork, Ireland, in eighteen days, though not using steam continuously.[1]
- April 8–April 23 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel's paddle steamer SS Great Western (1838) makes the Transatlantic Crossing to New York from Avonmouth, England, in fifteen days, inaugurating a regular steamship service.[2]
- April 30 – Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation (see Nicaragua's early history).
- May
- The People's Charter is drawn up in the United Kingdom, demanding universal suffrage.
- Lord Durham and his entourage arrive in Upper Canada to investigate the cause of the 1837 rebellion in that province. This leads to Durham submitting the Durham Report to Britain.
- An insurrection breaks out in Tizimín, beginning the campaign for the independence of Yucatan from Mexico.
- May 26 – USA: The people of the Cherokee Nation are forcibly relocated during the Trail of Tears.
- May 28 – Braulio Carrillo is sworn in as Head of State of Costa Rica, thus beginning his second term in office.
- June 10 – 28 Aborigines are killed in the Myall Creek Massacre.
- June 28 – Coronation of Queen Victoria.
[edit] July–September
- September 7 – Grace Darling and her father rescue thirteen survivors from the SS Forfarshire off the Farne Islands.
[edit] October–December
- October 1 – Supporters of Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, are victorious in the Battle of Maella during the First Carlist War.
- November 3 – The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce is founded (renamed The Times of India in 1861).
- November 5 – The Central American Civil War begins with Honduras' separation from the Central American Federation.
- December 16 – The Boers win a decisive victory over the Zulus in the Battle of Blood River.
- December – Pastry War: Mexico is invaded by French forces.
[edit] Date unknown
- Proteins are discovered by Jöns Jakob Berzelius.
- Friedrich Bessel makes the first accurate measurement of distance to a star.
- Women in Pitcairn are the first in the world to obtain and maintain the right to vote.[3]
- Biblical criticism: Christian Hermann Weisse proposes the two-source hypothesis.
- Duke University is established in North Carolina.
- 40,000 chests of opium are sold in China.
- Chatsworth Head acquired by the 6th Duke of Devonshire at Smyrna from H.P. Borrell.
[edit] Births
[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 Brooks Adams, American historian (d. 1918)
- February 18 – Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1916)
- March 3 – George William Hill, American astronomer (d. 1914)
- March 11 – Ōkuma Shigenobu, Japanese politician (d. 1922)
- April 3 – John Willis Menard, African-American politician (d. 1893)
- April 12 – John Shaw Billings, M.D., American military and medical leader (d. 1913)
- April 16 – Martha McClellan Brown, American temperance movement leader (d. 1916)
- April 21 – John Muir, American ecologist (d. 1914)
- April 28 – Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1913)
- May 10 – John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin (d. 1865)
- May 20 – Jules Méline, French statesman (d. 1925)
- June 14 – Yamagata Aritomo, Japanese Prime Minister (d. 1922).
[edit] July–December
- July 8 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German military officer and founder of the Zeppelin Company (d. 1917)
- September 2 – Liliuokalani of Hawai'i, last Queen of Hawaii (d. 1917)
- September 27 – Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Confederate brigadier general, Texas governor, and president of Texas A&M University (d. 1898)
- 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 20 – Hedvig Raa-Winterhjelm, pioneer actor (d. 1907)
- December 3 – Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (d. 1916)
- December 19 – Khedrup Gyatso, 11th 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] Date unknown
- Jamal-al-Din Afghani, teacher and writer (d. 1897)
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January–June
- January 3 – Prince Maximilian of Saxony (b. 1759)
- January 5 – Anthony Van Egmond, rebel leader in Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837 {died in jail) (b. 1778)
- February 21 – Silvestre de Sacy, linguist (b. 1758)
- March 13 – Poul Martin Møller, philosopher (b. 1794)
- March 16 – Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician (b. 1773)
- April 3 – François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician (b. 1780)
- April 6 – José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva, Brazilian statesman and naturalist (b. 1763)
- April 9 – Piet Uys, Voortrekker leader (in battle) (b. 1797)
- May – Francisco Gómez, president of El Salvador (b. 1796)
- May 17 – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754)
- May 19 – Richard Colt Hoare, English archaeologist (b. 1758)
- May 23 – Jan Willem Janssens, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1762)
- June 14 – Maximilian von Montgelas, Bavarian statesman (b. 1759)
[edit] July–December
- July 19 – Christmas Evans, preacher (b. 1766)
- August 17 – Lorenzo Da Ponte, librettist for Mozart (b. 1749)
- August 21 – Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (b. 1781)
- September 1 – William Clark, American explorer (b. 1770)
- September 27 – Bernard Courtois, French chemist (b. 1777)
- October 1 – Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist (b. 1768)
- October 3 – Black Hawk, Sauk Indian Chief and autobiographer (b. 1767)
- October 27 – Lilburn W. Boggs, governor of Missouri, gives extermination order of the Mormons.
- November 21 – Georges Mouton, count of Lobau, Marshal of France (b. 1770)
[edit] References
- ^ "Steamship Curaçao". http://www.vrcurassow.com/2dvrc/sscuracao/sscuracao.html. Retrieved 2011-02-02.
- ^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1820-1840". http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1820-1840. Retrieved 2007-09-12.
- ^ "World suffrage timeline – women and the vote", New Zealand Ministry of Culture and Heritage
