1838
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| 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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Year 1838 (MDCCCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1838
[edit] January - June
- January 10 - a fire destroys Lloyd's Coffee House and the Royal Exchange in London.
- April 8 - Regular Atlantic steamship service begins with the SS Great Western.
- 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 alle tering lijkers nog aan toe
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- 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
[edit] Undated
- Yucatan declares independence from Mexico
- 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.
- Duke University is established in North Carolina.
[edit] Ongoing
- War of the Confederation (1836-39)
- War of Tatters (1835-45)
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1838 MDCCCXXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2591 |
| Armenian calendar | 1287 ԹՎ ՌՄՁԷ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -6 – -5 |
| Berber calendar | 2788 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2382 |
| Burmese calendar | 1200 |
| Chinese calendar | 4474/4534-12-6 (丁酉年十二月初六日) — to —
4475/4535-11-15(戊戌年十一月十五日) |
| 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 | 1253 – 1254 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenpō 9 (天保9年) |
| Korean calendar | 4171 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2381 |
[edit] 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 Brooks Adams, American historian (d. 1918)
- February 18 - Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1916)
- March 3 - George William Hill, American astronomer (d. 1914)
- March 11 - Ōkuma Shigenobu, Japanese politician (d. 1922)
- 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)
[edit] July - December
- September 2 - Liliuokalani of Hawai'i, last Queen of Hawaii (d. 1917)
- 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)
[edit] Deaths
[edit] 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 6 - José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva, Brazilian statesman and naturalist (b. 1763)
- 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)
- May 19 - Richard Colt Hoare, English archaeologist (b. 1758)
- June 14 - Maximilian von Montgelas, Bavarian statesman (b. 1759)
[edit] 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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