1835

1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).

Events

• January 1 – Ole Pedersen Hoiland breaks into the Bank of Norway and steals 64.000 dalers
• January 7 – HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago.
• January 30 – Unsuccessful assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol – first assassination attempt against a President of the United States.
• February 20 – Concepción, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake
• March 2 – Ferdinand becomes Emperor of Austria.
• April 18 – Lord Melbourne succeeds Sir Robert Peel as British Prime Minister.
• The Australian city of Melbourne is founded by John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner.
• May 5 – In Belgium a railway is opened between Brussels and Mechelen. It is the first railway in continental Europe.
• May 6 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
• June 2 – P.T. Barnum and his circus begins first tour of the U.S.
• July 4 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad completed construction of its Thomas Viaduct then the longest bridge in the United States, and second only to London Bridge in the world.
• August 25 – The Great Moon Hoax begins.
• September 7 – Charles Darwin arrives at Galapagos Islands aboard HMS Beagle
• October 2 – Texas Revolution begins: Battle of Gonzales – Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
• December 1 – Hans Christian Andersen publishes first book of fairy tales
• December 7 – First German Railway between Nürnberg and Fürth named "der Adler" (The Eagle)
• December 9 – The Army of the Republic of Texas captures San Antonio.
• December 16 – Fire in New York City destroys 530 buildings
• December 19 – Toledo Blade newspaper begins publishing.
• December 28 – Seminole chief Osceola and his warriors attack government agent Thompson outside Fort King in Central Florida – it means the outbreak of the Second Seminole War
• The Toledo War was fought between the State of Ohio and the Michigan Territory over the city of Toledo and the Toledo Strip.
• De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestum, Copernicus' book on the motion of the Earth, is removed from the Index of Prohibited Books.
• Samuel Colt patents the first revolver
• Civil war erupts in Uruguay between supporters of Blanco and Colorado parties
• Cachar Levy, forerunner of 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

Births

• February 13 – Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Punjabi Muslim reformer (d. 1908)
• February 15 – Demetrius Vikelas, Greek International Olympic Committee president (d. 1908)
• February 18 – César Cui, Lithuanian composer (d. 1918)
• 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)
• March 29 – Gustaf Zander, physician (d. 1920)
• April 9 – King Leopold II of Belgium (d. 1909)
• May 3 – Alfred Austin, English poet (d. 1913)
• June 2 – Pope Pius X (d. 1914)
• July 7 – Ernest Giles, Australian explorer (d. 1897)
• July 10 – Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer
• July 27 – Giosue Carducci, Italian writer (d. 1907)
• August 2 – Elisha Gray, American inventor and businessman (d. 1901)
• 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)
• November 30 – Mark Twain, American author and humorist (d. 1910)
• December 4 – Samuel Butler, English writer (d. 1902)
• December 18 – Lyman Abbott, American clergyman and author (d. 1922)

Deaths

• 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)
• April 8 – Wilhelm von Humboldt, German linguist and philosopher (b. 1767)
• 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)
• September 23 – Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (b. 1801)