Information about 1839
| Centuries: | 18th century - 19th century - 20th century |
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| Years: | 1836 1837 1838 - 1839 - 1840 1841 1842 |
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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 Peruvian and Bolivian 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) is inaugurated by H.M. the King Ferdinand II of Bourbon. It is the first railway in the Italian peninsula.
- November 4 – The Newport Rising was the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
- 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 - A 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
- 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.
- Michael Faraday publishes "Experimental Researches in Electricity" clarifying the true nature of electricity.
- 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.
- Charles Goodyear vulcanizes rubber.
Ongoing events
- First Opium War (1839-1842)
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1839 MDCCCXXXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2592 |
| Armenian calendar | 1288 ԹՎ ՌՄՁԸ |
| Bah' calendar | -5 – -4 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2383 |
| Chinese calendar | 4475/4535-7-14 (戊戌年七月十四日) — to — 4476/4536-6-23(己亥年六月廿三日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1555 – 1556 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1831 – 1832 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5599 – 5600 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1894 – 1895 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1761 – 1762 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4940 – 4941 |
| Holocene calendar | 11839 |
| Iranian calendar | 1217 – 1218 |
| Islamic calendar | 1255 – 1256 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenpō 0 (天保0年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2499 (皇紀2499年) |
| Julian calendar | 1884 |
| Korean calendar | 4172 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2382 |
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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Excavations
- English archeologist A. H. Layard begins excavations of Nineveh.
Explorations
- John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood explore the Maya ruins of Copan
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- January 3 - John Hutt becomes Premier of South Australia
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- The Ulster Railway began construction of a railway line between Belfast and Lisburn.
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