Notable Historical Events - 1838
1838 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
1st official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide |
Jan 8 |
Rebellion at Amherstburg, Ontario breaks out |
Jan 11 |
1st public demonstration of telegraph message sent using dots & dashes at Speedwell Ironworks, Morristown, New Jersey by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail |
Jan 26 |
Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States |
Feb 16 |
Kentucky passes law permitting women to attend school under conditions |
Feb 16 |
Weenen Massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal are killed by Zulus. |
Feb 25 |
London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours |
Feb 28 |
Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Québec) |
Mar 3 |
Rebellion at Pelee Island, Ontario, Canada |
Mar 6 |
Franz Grillparzer's "Weh dem, der Lugt," premieres in Vienna |
Mar 8 |
US mint in New Orleans begins operation (producing dimes) |
Apr 8 |
Steamship "Great Western" maiden voyage (Bristol, England, to NYC) |
Apr 9 |
UK National Gallery re-opens in its new dedicated building in Trafalgar Square, London |
Apr 18 |
Wilkes' expedition to South Pole sails |
Apr 22 |
English steamship "Sirius" docks in NYC after Atlantic crossing |
Apr 23 |
English steamship "Great Western" crossing Atlantic docks in NYC |
Apr 27 |
Fire destroys half of Charleston |
Apr 30 |
Nicaragua declares independence from Central American federation |
Jun 10 |
Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered. |
Jun 11 |
Iowa Territory is organized |
Jun 12 |
Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Mass |
Jun 12 |
Iowa Territory forms |
Jun 28 |
Coronation of Queen Victoria in Westminster Abbey, London |
Jul 4 |
Huskar Colliery Mining Disaster in Silkstone England: Mining pit floods during a rainstorm drowning 26 children, leads to the 1842 commission on the employment of children and women in mines which resulted in the banning of female and child labour underground |
Jul 7 |
Central American federation is dissolved |
Jul 8 |
Arabs attack Jewish community of Safed |
Aug 1 |
Apprenticeship system abolished in most of the British Empire. Former slaves no longer indentured to former owners. |
Aug 18 |
1st US marine expedition |
Aug 23 |
Mt Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class |
Sep 3 |
Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor |
Sep 5 |
Central Museum opens in Utrecht Netherlands |
Sep 10 |
Hector Berlioz' opera "Benvenuto Cellini," premieres in Paris |
Sep 18 |
Anti-Corn Law League established by Richard Cobden |
Sep 19 |
Ephraim Morris patents railroad brake |
Sep 24 |
Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law |
Oct 1 |
Civil Code enforced (- Jan 1, 1992) |
Oct 27 |
Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated. |
Nov 3 |
The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce. |
Nov 5 |
Honduras declares independence of Central American Federation |
Nov 8 |
Victor Hugo's "Ruy Blas" premieres in Paris |
Nov 30 |
Mexico declares war on France |
Dec 16 |
Boers beat Zulu chieftain Dingaan in South Africa |
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