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Year 1835 (''' MDCCCXXXV ''') was a Common Year Starting On Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).

EVENTS OF 1835

January - March

January 1 - Ole Pedersen Hoiland breaks into the Bank Of Norway and steals 64.000 dollars.

January 7 - ''HMS Beagle'' anchors off the Chonos Archipelago , on voyage of 1831 - 1836 with Charles Darwin .

January 30 - Unsuccessful Assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol - first assassination attempt against a President Of The United States .

February 20 - Concepción, Chile is destroyed by an Earthquake .

March 2 - Ferdinand becomes Emperor of Austria .

April - June

April 18 - Lord Melbourne succeeds Sir Robert Peel as British Prime Minister .

The Australia n city of Melbourne is founded by John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner .

May 5 - In Belgium a railway is opened between Brussels and Mechelen . It is the first railway in Continental Europe (see Rail Transport In Belgium ).

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July - September

August 25 - In US, the '' New York Sun '' prints issue 1 of 6 for the Great Moon Hoax .

September 7 - Charles Darwin arrives at the Galapagos Islands aboard ''HMS Beagle''.

September 20 - Farroupilha's Revolution begins in Rio Grande Do Sul , Brazil .

October - December

- Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.

November 16 - Comet Halley reaches Perihelion , its closest approach to the sun.

November 19 - A force of 500 Māori invade and enslave the peoples of the Chatham Islands.

December 1 - Hans Christian Andersen publishes first book of fairy tales.

December 7 - First German Railway opens between Nürnberg and Fürth , named "der Adler" (The Eagle) (see History Of Rail Transport In Germany ).

December 9 - The Army of the Republic Of Texas captures San Antonio .

December 16 - 17 - The Great Fire Of New York destroys 530 buildings, including the New York Stock Exchange .

December 20 - The first signing of the Texas Declaration Of Independence at Goliad, Texas .

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The '' British Geological Survey '' is founded as the world's first national Geological Survey .

'' De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium '', Copernicus ' book on the motion of the Earth , is removed from the Index Of Prohibited Books .

Civil war erupts in Uruguay between supporters of Blanco and Colorado parties.

''Cachar Levy'', forerunner of Assam Rifles , is founded in India .

The first Bulgaria n-language school opens in the Ottoman Empire .

The French word for their language changes to ''français'', from ''françois''.

Fort Cass is established, the military headquarters and site of the largest internment camps during the 1838 Trail Of Tears .

BIRTHS

January - June

February 13 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad , Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (d. 1908 )

February 15 - Demetrius Vikelas , Greek International Olympic Committee president (d. 1908 )

February 18 - César Cui , Lithuanian composer (d. 1918 )

March 4 - John Hughlings Jackson , English neurologist (d. 1911 )

March 14 - Giovanni Schiaparelli , Italian astronomer (d. 1910 )

March 15 - Eduard Strauss , Austrian composer (d. 1916 )

March 24 - Jožef Stefan , Slovenian physicist, mathematician, and poet (d. 1893 )

April 9 - King Léopold II Of Belgium (d. 1909 )

May 3 - Alfred Austin , English poet (d. 1913 )

May 21 - František Chvostek , Moravian physician (d. 1884 )

June 2 - Pope Pius X (d. 1914 )

July - December

July 7 - Ernest Giles , Australian explorer (d. 1897 )

July 10 - Henryk Wieniawski , Polish composer (d. 1880 )

July 27 - Giosuè Carducci , Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907 )

August 2 - Elisha Gray , American inventor and businessman (d. 1901 )

October 7 - Felix Draeseke , German composer (d. 1913 )

October 9 - Camille Saint-Saëns , French composer (d. 1921 )

October 23 - Adlai E. Stevenson , Vice President Of The United States (d. 1914 )

October 31 - Adolf Von Baeyer , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917 )

November 17 - Andrew L. Harris , American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (d. 1915 )

November 19 - Rani Lakshmi Bai , Indian freedom fighter (d. 1858 )

November 21 - Hetty Green , American businesswoman (d. 1916 )

November 25 - Andrew Carnegie , American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1919 )

November 29 - Empress Dowager Cixi of China (d. 1908 )

November 30 - Mark Twain , American author and humorist (d. 1910 )

December 4 - Samuel Butler , English writer (d. 1902 )

December 18 - Lyman Abbott , American clergyman and author (d. 1922 )

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DEATHS

January - June

February 15 - Henry Hunt , British politician (b. 1773 )

March 2 - Emperor Francis I Of Austria (b. 1768 )

March 18 - Christian Gunther Von Bernstorff , Danish and Prussian statesman and diplomat (b. 1769 )

April 8 - Wilhelm Von Humboldt , German linguist and philosopher (b. 1767 )

April 21 - Samuel Slater , American industrialist (b. 1768 )

May 13 - John Nash , English architect (b. 1752 )

June 18 - William Cobbett , English journalist and author (b. 1763 )

July - December

July 6 - John Marshall , influential American chief justice (b. 1755 )

July 28 - Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier , French marshal (b. 1768 )

September 23 - Vincenzo Bellini , Italian composer (b. 1801 )

December 13 - John Storm , American Revolution ary soldier (b. 1760 )

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