1839
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Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century Decades: 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s Years: 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 - 1839 - 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844
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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.
- 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.
Year in topic
Births
- January 19 - Paul Cezanne, painter (+ 1906)
- February 11 - Josiah Willard Gibbs theoretical physicist/chemist.
- February 22 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (+ 1906)
- March 21 - Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer
- April 12 - Nicholas Michailovitch Prjevalsky, explorer
- July 8 - John Davison Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist.
- December 5 - George Armstrong Custer, American cavalry officer.
Deaths
- April 11 - John Galt, Scottish novelist, founder of Guelph, Ontario.
- May 17 - Archibald Alison, Scottish author
- August 22 - Benjamin Lundy, American abolitionist
- August 28 - William Smith, geologist/cartographer.
- November 15 - William Murdoch, inventor
heads of State
- China - Daoguang Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (September 2, 1820 to February 25, 1850)
- Denmark -
- Frederick VI, King of Denmark (1808-1839)
- Christian VIII, King of Denmark (December 13, 1839 to January 20, 1848)
- France - Louis-Phillippe, King of the French (August 1, 1830 to February 24, 1848)
- Norway - Charles III, King of Norway (1818-1844)
- Ottoman Empire -
- Mahmud II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808-1839)
- Abd-ul-Mejid, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (July 2, 1839 to June 25, 1861)
- Prussia - Frederick William III, King of Prussia (1797-1840)
- Russia - Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia (December 26, 1825 to March 2, 1855)
- Spain - Isabella II, Queen of Spain (September 29, 1833 to September, 1868)
- United States - Martin Van Buren, President of the United States (March 4, 1837 to March 4, 1841)