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1836 1837 1838 - 1839 - 1840 1841 1842
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| align="center" colspan=2 | 1810s 1820s - 1830s ''' - 1840s 1850s 1860s
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| align="center" | - 19th Century ''' - 20th Century
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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 Peru vian and Bolivia n alliance.
- February 11 - The University Of Missouri is established, becoming the first public university west of the Mississippi River .
- 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
- 9 April - The world's first commercial electric Telegraph line comes into operation alongside the Great Western Railway line from Paddington Station to West Drayton .
- 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 8 – The Beta Theta Pi fraternity was founded in Oxford, Ohio
- August 19 – French government gives Louis Daguerre a pension and gives the Daguerreotype "for the whole world"
- October 3 - In the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies a railway between Napoli and Portici (7.4km length) has been inaugurated by H.M. the King Ferdinand II of Bourbon . It is the very first railway in the Italian peninsula.
- 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 25 - Disastrous Cyclone slams India with terrible winds and a giant 40 foot Storm Surge , wiping out the port city of Coringa. 300,000 people die.
- November 27 - In Boston, Massachusetts , the American Statistical Association is founded
Undated
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 9 - Phoebe Knapp , American hymn writer (d. 1908 )
- March 16 - John Butler Yeats , Northern Irish artist (d. 1922 )
- March 21 - Modest Mussorgsky , Russian composer (d. 1881 )
- April 12 - Nikolai Przhevalsky , Russian explorer (d. 1888 )
- June 17 - Arthur Tooth , Anglican Clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870's (d. 1931 )
- July 8 - John Davison Rockefeller , American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1937 )
- July 17 - Ephraim Shay , inventor of the Shay Locomotive (d. 1916 )
- December 5 - George Armstrong Custer , American cavalry officer (d. 1876 )
Deaths
- February 7 - Karl August Nicander , Swedish poet (b. 1799 )
- 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 )
- October - William Light , British Army colonel and the first Surveyor-General of South Australia (b. 1786 )
- November 15 - William Murdoch , Scottish inventor (b. 1754 )
- December 3 - Frederick VI , King of Denmark, ex-King of Norway (b. 1768 )
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