1838
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| Decades: | 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s |
| Years: | 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1838 MDCCCXXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2591 |
| Armenian calendar | 1287 ԹՎ ՌՄՁԷ |
| 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) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1830 – 1831 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5598 – 5599 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1893 – 1894 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1760 – 1761 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4939 – 4940 |
| Iranian calendar | 1216 – 1217 |
| Islamic calendar | 1254 – 1255 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenpō 9 (天保9年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2498 (皇紀2498年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 11838 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2381 |
1838 (MDCCCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
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[edit] Events
- April 30 - Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation (See Nicaragua's early history)
- May 26 - USA: Trail of Tears - forced relocation of the Cherokee tribe, killing 4,000.
- May - The People's Charter drawn up in the United Kingdom demanding universal suffrage.
- 1 August - Trinidad and Tobago: Slavery officially abolished
- 7 September - The paddlesteamer Forfarshire foundered on the Farne Islands, UK, giving rise to the fame of Grace Darling, who rescued nine passengers.
- November 3 India: The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce is founded. This paper was later renamed to The Times of India in 1861
- November 5 - Central American Civil War begins with Honduras' separation from the Central American Federation.
- Pastry War: Mexico invaded by French forces
- Yucatan declares independence from Mexico
- First British-Afghan War begins
- 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.
- Regular Atlantic steamship service begins with the SS Great Western
[edit] Births
- 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 Adams, American historian (d. 1918)
- February 16 - Ōkuma Shigenobu - Japanese politician (d. 1922)
- February 18 - Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1916)
- March 3 - George William Hill, American astronomer (d. 1914)
- April 3 - John Willis Menard, African-American politician (d. 1893)
- April 8 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German inventor (d. 1917)
- 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)
- 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, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1918)
- 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] Month/day unknown
- Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (d. 1916)
- John S. Billings,M.D., American military and medical leader (d. 1913)
[edit] Deaths
- January 5 - Anthony Van Egmond, A Rebel leader in Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837 {died in jail}
- May 17 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754)
- August 21 - Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (b. 1781)
- September 1 - William Clark, American explorer (b. 1770)
- November 21 - Georges Mouton, count of Lobau, Marshal of France (b. 1770)
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