Information about 1838
| Centuries: | 18th century - 19th century - 20th century |
| Decades: | 1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s |
| Years: | 1835 1836 1837 - 1838 - 1839 1840 1841 |
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Events of 1838
January - March
- January 10 - a fire destroys Lloyd's Coffee House and the Royal Exchange in London.
April - June
- April 30 - Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation (See Nicaragua's early history)
- May - The People's Charter drawn up in the United Kingdom demanding universal suffrage.
- May 26 - USA: Trail of Tears - forced relocation of the Cherokee tribe, killing at least 8,000.
- June 9 - 28 Indigenous Australians were killed at the Myall Creek massacre.
July - September
- 1 August - Trinidad and Tobago: Slavery officially abolished
- 7 September - The paddlesteamer Forfarshire foundered on the Farne Islands, UK, giving rise to the fame of Grace Darling, who rescued nine passengers.
October - December
- November 3 India: The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce is founded. This paper was later renamed to The Times of India in 1861
- November 5 - Central American Civil War begins with Honduras' separation from the Central American Federation.
- December - Beginning of Pastry War: Mexico invaded by French forces
Undated
- Yucatan declares independence from Mexico
- First British-Afghan War begins
- Proteins discovered by Jöns Jakob Berzelius
- Friedrich Bessel makes the first accurate measurement of distance to a star.
- Biblical criticism: Christian Hermann Weisse proposes the two-source hypothesis.
- Regular Atlantic steamship service begins with the SS Great Western
- Duke University is established in North Carolina.
1838 in Fiction
- F. W. Murnau's film, Nosferatu is set in 1838.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1838 MDCCCXXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2591 |
| Armenian calendar | 1287 ԹՎ ՌՄՁԷ |
| Bah' calendar | -6 – -5 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2382 |
| Chinese calendar | 4474/4534-8-3 (丁酉年八月初三日) — to — 4475/4535-6-13(戊戌年六月十三日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1554 – 1555 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1830 – 1831 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5598 – 5599 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1893 – 1894 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1760 – 1761 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4939 – 4940 |
| Holocene calendar | 11838 |
| Iranian calendar | 1216 – 1217 |
| Islamic calendar | 1254 – 1255 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenpō 0 (天保0年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2498 (皇紀2498年) |
| Julian calendar | 1883 |
| Korean calendar | 4171 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2381 |
January - June
- January 4 - General Tom Thumb, American circus performer and entertainer (d. 1883)
- January 6 - Max Bruch, German composer (d. 1920)
- January 16 - Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
- February 6 - Henry Irving, English actor (d. 1905)
- February 10 - Gustav Oelwein, founder of Oelwein, Iowa (d. 1913)
- February 16
- Henry Adams, American historian (d. 1918)
- Ōkuma Shigenobu - Japanese politician (d. 1922)
- February 18 - Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1916)
- March 3 - George William Hill, American astronomer (d. 1914)
- April 3 - John Willis Menard, African-American politician (d. 1893)
- April 8 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German inventor (d. 1917)
- April 12 - John Shaw Billings, M.D., American military and medical leader (d. 1913)
- April 16 - Martha McClellan Brown, American temperance movement leader (d. 1916)
- April 28 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1913)
- April 21 - John Muir, American ecologist (d. 1914)
- May 10 - John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin (d. 1865)
- May 20 - Jules Méline, French statesman (d. 1925)
July - December
- September 2 - Liliuokalani of Hawai'i, last Queen of Hawaii (d. 1917)
- September 12 - Júlio Diniz, Portuguese writer (b. 1871)
- October 6 - Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910)
- October 25 - Georges Bizet, French composer (d. 1875)
- October 31 - King Luis I of Portugal (d. 1889)
- November 7 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889)
- November 13 - Joseph Fielding Smith, tenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1918)
- December 3 - Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (d. 1916)
- December 19 - Khedrup Gyatso, eleventh Dalai Lama (d. 1856)
- December 20 - Edwin Abbott Abbott, theologian and author (d. 1926)
- December 30 - Émile Loubet, 7th President of France (d. 1929)
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Deaths
January - June
- January 3 - Prince Maximilian of Saxony (b. 1759)
- January 5 - Anthony Van Egmond, rebel leader in Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837 {died in jail}
- February 21 - Silvestre de Sacy, linguist (b. 1758)
- March 13 - Poul Martin Møller, philosopher (b. 1794)
- April 9 - Piet Uys, Voortrekker leader (in battle) (b. 1797)
- May - Francisco Gómez, president of El Salvador (b. 1796)
- May 17 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754)
July - December
- July 19 - Christmas Evans, preacher (b. 1766)
- August 17 - Lorenzo Da Ponte, librettist for Mozart (b. 1749)
- August 21 - Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (b. 1781)
- September 1 - William Clark, American explorer (b. 1770)
- October 1 - Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist (b. 1768)
- November 21 - Georges Mouton, count of Lobau, Marshal of France (b. 1770)
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1838 in archaeology
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Explorations
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Publications
- Jean-Frédéric Waldeck publishes the first detailed account of the Maya ruins of Uxmal
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Writing about cricket in particular, John Leach (2005a) has explained the role of Puritan power, the Civil War, and the Restoration of the monarchy in England.
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Writing about cricket in particular, John Leach (2005a) has explained the role of Puritan power, the Civil War, and the Restoration of the monarchy in England.
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January events
- January 1 - The United States government contracts with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to carry mail; the B&O is the first railroad to be awarded such a contract in
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Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:- Governor of New South Wales - Sir George Gipps
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Events
- January - Samuel Lount captured.
- January 13 - Navy Island evacuated.
- January 13 - Lord Eldon, Lord Chancellor under three kings, dies.
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Events
- Tithe Act.[1]
- Poor Law Act.[1]
Births
- 26 March - William Edward Hartpole Lecky, historian (d.1903).
- 28 July - Augustus Nicholas Burke, artist (d.1891).
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