Notable Historical Events - 1839
1839 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 2 |
1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre) |
Jan 6 |
2 day storm off Irish & English coast immortalized as "Big Wind" |
Jan 9 |
Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science |
Jan 9 |
Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri) |
Jan 10 |
Tea from India 1st arrives in UK |
Jan 11 |
Earthquake at Martinique destroys half of Port Royal - 700 die |
Jan 12 |
Anthracite coal 1st used to smelt iron, Mauch Chunk, Penn |
Jan 19 |
Aden conquered by British East India Company |
Jan 20 |
In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats a Peruvian and Bolivian alliance. |
Jan 24 |
Charles Darwin elected Fellow of the Royal Society |
Feb 7 |
Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president" |
Feb 12 |
Aroostock War: Boundary dispute between Maine & New Brunswick |
Feb 18 |
Detroit Boat Club forms (& still exists) |
Feb 20 |
Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia |
Feb 24 |
Steam shovel patented by William Otis, Philadelphia |
Feb 25 |
Seminoles & black allies shipped from Tampa Bay Florida, to West |
Feb 26 |
Jem Mason on Lottery wins 1st Grand National Steeplechase (Britain) |
Mar 9 |
Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours |
Mar 23 |
1st recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post) |
Mar 26 |
1st Henley Royal Regatta |
Apr 17 |
Guatemala forms republic |
Apr 19 |
Treaty of London constitutes Belgium an independent kingdom & Luxembourg a Grand Duchy |
May 4 |
The Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms San Bonifacio |
Jun 7 |
Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed |
Jun 14 |
First Henley Regatta held (it became the Henley Royal Regatta in 1851) |
Jun 17 |
In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the Edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace is later established as a result |
Jul 1 |
Abdul-Medjid succeeds Mahmud II as Sultan of Turkey |
Jul 2 |
Slaves aboard a Spanish schooner La Amistad revolt to secure their freedom while being transported from one Cuban port to another |
Jul 3 |
1st state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students |
Jul 27 |
Chartist riots break out in Birmingham, England |
Aug 8 |
Beta Theta Pi is founded in Oxford, Ohio. |
Aug 19 |
Details of Louis Daguerre's 1st practical photographic process are released in Paris |
Aug 23 |
British capture Hong Kong from China |
Sep 2 |
Salon of Varietes opens in Amsterdam |
Sep 5 |
The First Opium War begins in China. |
Sep 6 |
Cherokee Nation forms |
Sep 6 |
Great fire in New York |
Sep 9 |
John Herschel takes 1st glass plate photograph |
Sep 11 |
1st Canadian track & field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds) |
Sep 20 |
1st railroad in Netherland opens (Amsterdam-Haarlem) |
Oct 10 |
British troops under Gen Charles Napier occupy Beirut |
Nov 3 |
1st opium war - 2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks |
Nov 3 |
Palace of Gulhane Turkey, freedom of religion proclaimed |
Nov 4 |
The Newport Rising is the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain. |
Nov 11 |
The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia. |
Nov 13 |
1st US anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY |
Nov 17 |
Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Oberte Conti Di" premieres in Milan |
Nov 25 |
A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (never to be entirely rebuilt again). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster. |
Nov 27 |
American Statistical Association organizes in Boston |
Dec 18 |
1st celestial photograph (of Moon) made in US, John Draper, NYC |
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