1838

Years: 1835 1836 1837 - 1838 - 1839 1840 1841

Decades: 1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1838 in topic: Arts Architecture - Art - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Rail transport - Science - South Africa - Sport Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths

1838 was a Common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).

Events

• January 6 - Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrates the Telegraph.
• January 8 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a Telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse Code)
• January 12 - Joseph Smith, Jr. and Sidney Rigdon flee Ohio for Missouri
• March 7 - Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale" debuts at the Stockholm Opera
• March 8 - The New Orleans Mint strikes its first coinage, 30 dimes.
• April 30 - Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation
• May 31 - In Cornwall, self-declared Messiah John Nichols Thom kills a policeman who was sent to arrest him and flees to Bossenden Wood with 30 followers. Later in the day he dies when he tries to rally his followers to fight soldiers of the 45th Foot regiment
• June 12 - Territory of Iowa established
• 1 August - Slavery officially abolished in Trinidad & Tobago
• 7 September - Grace Darling rescues 9 survivors from the wreck of Forfarshire off the Farne Islands
• September 3 - Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a free Black seaman, future abolitionist Frederick Douglass boards a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from Slavery
• October 16 - Date in the Bill Stump's Stone
• October 27 - Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, ordering the expulsion of all Mormons from the state.
• November 3 The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce is founded. This paper was later renamed to The Times of India in 1861
• November 5 - Honduras separates from the Central American Federation, weakening the confederation.

• Proteins discovered by Jöns Jakob Berzelius
• the Pastry War
• Start of First British-Afghan War
• Republic of Yucatan declares independence from Mexico
• Start of Central American Civil War
• Friedrich Bessel makes the first accurate measurement of distance to a star.
• Christian Hermann Weisse proposes the two-source hypothesis of gospel origins, which is held by a majority of biblical scholars to this day.
• Regular Atlantic steamship service begins
• Augustus Siebe invents a closed diving suit with a helmet
• Louis Daguerre develops Daguerreotype
• Epidemic kills half of the native population in the Aleuts

Births

• 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, The founder of Oelwein, Iowa (d. 1913)
• February 16 - Henry Adams, American historian (d. 1918)
• February 18 - Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1916)
• March 3 - George William Hill, American astronomer (d. 1914)
• April 8 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German inventor (d. 1917)
• 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)
• 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)
• November 7 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889)
• November 13 - Joseph Fielding Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1918)
• December 20 - Edwin Abbott Abbott, theologian and author (d. 1926)
• December 30 - Émile Loubet, 7th president President of France (d.1929)

• Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (d. 1916)

Deaths

• 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)
• July 4 - Colonel José Antonio Vidaurre, Chilean rebel (shot)
• August 21 - Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (b. 1781)
• September 1 - William Clark, American explorer (b. 1770)