1839
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1839 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
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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
Undated
- 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.
Births
- 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)
Deaths
- April 1 – Benjamin Pierce, U.S. politician (b. 1757)
- April 2 – Hezekiah Niles, American editor and publisher (b. 1777)
- April 11 – John Galt, Scottish novelist (b. 1779)
- May 17 – Archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757)
- August 10 – John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (b. 1758)
- August 22 – Benjamin Lundy, American abolitionist (b. 1789)
- August 28 – William Smith, English geologist and cartographer (b. 1769)
- November 15 – William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (b. 1754)
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