Notable Historical Events - 1835
1835 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 7 |
HMS Beagle anchors off Chonos Archipelago |
Jan 8 |
The United States national debt is 0 for the first and only time. |
Jan 25 |
Vincenzo Bellini's opera "I Puritani," premieres in Paris |
Jan 30 |
Richard Lawrence misfires at President Andrew Jackson in Washington DC in 1st attempted assassination of a US President |
Feb 20 |
Concepcion, Chile, destroyed by earthquake; 5,000 die |
Feb 22 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave Valdivia Chile |
Feb 24 |
Siwinowe Kesibwi (Shawnee Sun) is 1st Indian lang monthly mag |
Feb 28 |
Dr Elias L"nnrot publishes Finnish poem "Kalevala" |
Mar 3 |
Congress authorizes a US mint at New Orleans Louisiana |
Mar 4 |
HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepcion |
Mar 7 |
HMS Beagle returns from Concepcion to Valparaiso |
Mar 11 |
HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile |
Mar 13 |
Charles Darwin departs Valparaiso for Andes crossing |
Mar 18 |
Charles Darwin departs Santiago Chile on his way to Portillo Pass |
Mar 21 |
Charles Darwin & Mariano Gonzales meet at Portillo Pass |
Mar 23 |
Charles Darwin reaches Los Arenales, in the Andes |
Apr 10 |
Charles Darwin returns to Santiago, Chile |
Apr 18 |
William Lamb (Lord Melbourne) forms British government |
Apr 26 |
Frederic Chopin's "Grand Polonaise Brillante" premieres in Paris |
May 5 |
King Leopold opens Brussels-Mechelen railway |
May 6 |
James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald (price 1 cent). |
May 12 |
Charles Darwin visits copper mines in North Chile |
May 13 |
1st foreign embassy in Hawaii forms |
May 14 |
Charles Darwin reaches Coquimbo in Northern Chile |
May 20 |
Otto is named the first modern king of Greece. |
Jun 1 |
6th national black convention (Philadelphia) |
Jun 2 |
P T Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US |
Jun 19 |
New Orleans gives US government Jackson Square to be used as a mint |
Jun 25 |
1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now SF) |
Jul 8 |
Liberty Bell cracks (again) |
Jul 9 |
St Etienne-Lyons railway opens in France |
Jul 25 |
Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine |
Jul 26 |
1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii |
Jul 29 |
1st sugar plantation in Hawaii begins |
Aug 10 |
Mob of whites & oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan NH |
Aug 11 |
George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Royal |
Aug 17 |
Solymon Merrick patents wrench |
Aug 18 |
Last Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago |
Aug 25 |
New York Sun publishes Moon hoax story about John Herschel |
Aug 30 |
Melbourne, Australia is founded. |
Sep 15 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Galapagos Islands |
Sep 17 |
Charles Darwins lands on Chatham Galapagos-archipelago |
Sep 20 |
Farroupilha's Revolution begins in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. |
Sep 23 |
HMS Beagle sails to Charles Island in Galapagos archipelago |
Sep 26 |
Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Lucia di Lammermoor" premieres in Naples |
Oct 2 |
Battle of Gonzales fought between Texan settlers and Mexican forces. First engagement of the Texas revolution |
Oct 3 |
Staedtler Company was founded by J.S. Staedtler in Nuremburg, Germany. |
Oct 8 |
Charles Darwin reaches James Island, Galapagos archipelago, on HMS Beagle |
Oct 9 |
The Royal College, Colombo, established with the name Hillstreet Academy in Sri Lanka. |
Oct 20 |
HMS Beagle leaves Galapagos Archipelago/sails to Tahiti |
Nov 2 |
2nd Seminole War begins in Osceola |
Nov 15 |
Charles Darwin reaches Tahiti on board HMS Beagle |
Nov 16 |
Charles Darwin's voyage published in Cambridge Philosophical Society |
Nov 18 |
-20] Charles Darwin travels to Tahiti |
Nov 19 |
A ship carrying 500 armed Maori from Ngati Tama and Ngati Mutunga arrives on the Chatham Islands; those Moriori (indigenous people of the Chatham Islands) that are not killed are enslaved |
Nov 23 |
Henry Burden patents Horseshoe manufacturing machine (Troy NY) |
Nov 24 |
Texas Rangers, mounted police force authorized by Texas Provisional Government |
Nov 26 |
HMS Beagle leaves Tahiti for NZ |
Dec 1 |
Hans Christian Andersen publishes his 1st book of fairy tales |
Dec 3 |
1st US mutual fire insurance company issues 1st policy (RI) |
Dec 5 |
- 10th: Assault on Mexican-held San Antonio by Texan rebels |
Dec 7 |
Bavarian Ludwig railway opens - first German steam railway |
Dec 16 |
Fire consumes over 600 buildings in NYC |
Dec 19 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin approaches NZ |
Dec 21 |
HMS Beagle sails into Bay of Islands (New Zealand) |
Dec 25 |
Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas in Pahia, New Zealand |
Dec 29 |
The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States. |
Dec 30 |
After gold discovery in Ga, Cherokees forced to move across Miss R |
Dec 30 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails from NZ to Sydney |
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