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Year 1839 (''' MDCCCXXXIX ''') was a Common Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).

EVENTS OF 1839

January - March

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 5 - Longwood University founded, Farmville , Virginia .

March 7 - Baltimore City College , the third public high school in the United States, is established in Baltimore , Maryland .

March 23 - First recorded use of "OK" Oll Korrect ('' Boston Morning Post '').

March 26 - The first Henley Royal Regatta is held

March 29 - British naturalist Charles Darwin marries his cousin Emma Wedgwood .

April - June

April - Sultan Mahmud II of Turkey declares war on Mehemet Ali of Egypt in revenge.

April 9 - 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 - September

July 1

---Slave rebellion of Amistad

---Change of Emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mahmud II ( 1808 -1839) to Abd-ul-Mejid (1839- 1861 ).

July 23 - British forces capture the fortress city of Ghazni , Afghanistan in the Battle Of Ghazni during the First Anglo-Afghan War

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"

August 23 - British forces seized Hong Kong as a base, as it prepared to wage war against Qing China . The ensuing 3-year conflict would become known as the First Opium War .

October - December

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

October 1839 - Joseph Smith Jr. went to ask the President of the United States for help from the mobs. The President replied saying, "Your cause is just, but I can do nothing for you. If I take up for you I shall lose the vote of Missouri."

Undated

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 .

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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 .

Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia is founded.

John Frost , Zephaniah Williams and William Jones are transported to Australia for their part in a Chartist rally in Newport, Monmouthshire .

Ongoing events

First Opium War (1839- 1842 )

BIRTHS

January - June

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 )

April 30 - Floriano Peixoto , Brazilian president (d. 1895 )

June 17 - Arthur Tooth , Anglican Clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (d. 1931 )

June 21 - Machado De Assis , Brazilian author (d. 1908 )

July - December

July 8 - John Davison Rockefeller , American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1937 )

July 17 - Ephraim Shay , inventor of the Shay Locomotive (d. 1916 )

November 20 - Christian Wilberg , German painter (d. 1882 )

December 5 - George Armstrong Custer , American cavalry officer (d. 1876 )

December 12 - Caroline Lake Ingalls, Née Quiner , mother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. April 20 , 1924 )

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DEATHS

January - June

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 )

April 22 - Denis Davydov , Russian general and poet (b. 1784 )

May 17 - Archibald Alison , Scottish author (b. 1757 )

July - December

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 )

December 15 - Ignaz Aurelius Fessler , court councillor and minister to Alexander I (b. 1756 )

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