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

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
April 30 – Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation
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

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 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/ July 8 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German inventor (d. 1917)
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 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)
Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (d. 1916)

Deaths

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)

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