1839

Years:
1836 1837 1838 – 1839 – 1840 1841 1842

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

Centuries:
18th century – 19th century – 20th century

1839 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada – Rail transport - Science - South Africa – Sport

Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders

1839 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).

Events

January 9 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
January 19 – British East India Company captures Aden
January 20 – In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats a Peruvian and Bolivian alliance.
February 24 – William Otis receives a patent for the steam shovel.
March 23 – First recorded use of "OK" oll korrect (Boston Morning Post).
March 26 – The first Henley Royal Regatta is held
April 19 – The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.
June 22 – Louis Daguerre receives patent for his camera (commercially available by September with the prize of 400 Francs)
July 1 – Slave rebellion of Amistad
August 19 – French government gives Louis Daguerre a pension and gives the daguerreotype "for the whole world"
November 11 – The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
November 17 – Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio opens in Milan.
November 27 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded

Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mahmud II (1808-1839) to Abd-ul-Mejid (1839-1861)
In the United States, the first state law permitting women to own property is passed in Jackson, Mississippi.
The first parallax measurement of the distance to Alpha Centauri is published by Thomas Henderson.
Excavation on Copan begins
Half of the Limburg province of Belgium was added to the Netherlands, since 1839 there is a Belgian Limburg and Dutch Limburg.
Abd al-Kader declares a jihad against the French.

January 19 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906)
February 11 – Josiah Willard Gibbs American physicist and chemist (d. 1903)
February 22 – Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (d. 1906)
March 21 – Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer (d. 1881)
April 12 – Nicholas Michailovitch Prjevalsky, Russian explorer (d. 1888)
July 8 – John Davison Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1937)
December 5 – George Armstrong Custer, American cavalry officer (d. 1876)

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