1839

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Centuries:	18th century · 19th century · 20th century
Decades:	1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s
Years:	1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842

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**1839 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1839 MDCCCXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2592
Armenian calendar	1288 ԹՎ ՌՄՁԸ
Chinese calendar	4475/4535-11-16 (戊戌年十一月十六日) — to — 4476/4536-11-26 (己亥年十一月廿六日)
Ethiopian calendar	1831 – 1832
Hebrew calendar	5599 – 5600
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1894 – 1895
- Shaka Samvat	1761 – 1762
- Kali Yuga	4940 – 4941
Iranian calendar	1217 – 1218
Islamic calendar	1255 – 1256
Japanese calendar	Tenpō 10 (天保10年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2499 (皇紀2499年)
- Jōmon Era	11839
Thai solar calendar	2382

1839 (MDCCCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).

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January 9 - The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
January 19 - British East India Company captures Aden
January 20 - In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats a Peruvian and Bolivian alliance.
February 11 - The University of Missouri is established, becoming the first public university west of the Mississippi River.
February 24 - William Otis receives a patent for the steam shovel.
March 5 - Longwood University founded, Farmville, Virginia.
March 23 - First recorded use of "OK" oll korrect (Boston Morning Post).
March 26 - The first Henley Royal Regatta is held
9 April - The world's first commercial electric telegraph line comes into operation alongside the Great Western Railway line from Paddington station to West Drayton.
April 19 - The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.
June 22 – Louis Daguerre receives patent for his camera (commercially available by September with the prize of 400 Francs)
July 1 – Slave rebellion of Amistad
July 23 – British forces capture the fortress city of Ghazni, Afghanistan in the Battle of Ghazni during the First Anglo-Afghan War
August 8 – The Beta Theta Pi fraternity was founded in Oxford, Ohio
August 19 – French government gives Louis Daguerre a pension and gives the daguerreotype "for the whole world"
October 3 - In the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies a railway between Napoli and Portici (7.4km length) has been inaugurated by H.M. the King Ferdinand II of Bourbon. It is the very first railway in the Italian peninsula.
November 11 - The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
November 17 - Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio opens in Milan.
November 25 - Disastrous cyclone slams India with terrible winds and a giant 40 foot storm surge, wiping out the port city of Coringa. 300,000 people die.
November 27 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded

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Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mahmud II (1808-1839) to Abd-ul-Mejid (1839-1861)
In the United States, the first state law permitting women to own property is passed in Jackson, Mississippi.
The first parallax measurement of the distance to Alpha Centauri is published by Thomas Henderson.
Michael Faraday publishes "Experimental Researches in Electricity" clarifying the true nature of electricity
Excavation on Copan begins
Half of the Limburg province of Belgium was added to the Netherlands, since 1839 there is a Belgian Limburg and Dutch Limburg.
Abd al-Kader declares a jihad against the French.
Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia is founded.
Baltimore City College in Baltimore, Maryland is the third public high school established.
John Frost, Zephaniah Williams and William Jones are transported to Australia for their part in a Chartist rally in Newport, Monmouthshire.