1838

Years:
1835 1836 1837 - 1838 - 1839 1840 1841

Decades:
1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s

Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Events

January 6 - Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrates the telegraph.
January 8 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code)
January 12 - Joseph Smith, Jr. and Sidney Rigdon flee Ohio for Missouri
March 7 – Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale" debuts at the Stockholm Opera
April 30 - Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation
June 12 - Territory of Iowa established
September 3 - Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a free Black seaman, future abolitionist Frederick Douglass boards a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from slavery
October 16 - Date in the Bill Stump's Stone
November 5 - Honduras separates from the Central American Federation, weakening the confederation.
Proteins discovered by Jons Jacob Berzelius
the Pastry War
Start of First British-Afghan War
Republic of Yucatan declares independence from Mexico
Start of Central American Civil War
Friedrich Bessel makes the first accurate measurement of distance to a star.
Christian Hermann Weisse proposes the two-source hypothesis of gospel origins, which is held by a majority of biblical scholars to this day.
Regular Atlantic steamship service begins
Governor of Missouri order all the Mormons to leave the state
Augustus Siebe invents a closed diving suit with a helmet
Louis Daguerre develops Daguerreotype
November 3 The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce is founded. This paper was later

May 17 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (* 1754)
July 4 - Colonel Jos� Antonio Vidaurre and his accomplices, authors of The Riot of Quillota, Chile were shot.

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