Year 1838 (MDCCCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1838Edit

January - MarchEdit

• January 10 - a fire destroys Lloyd's Coffee House and the Royal Exchange in London.

April - JuneEdit

• April 30 - Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation (See Nicaragua's early history)
• May - The People's Charter drawn up in the United Kingdom demanding universal suffrage.
• May 26 - USA: Trail of Tears - forced relocation of the Cherokee tribe, killing at least 8,000.
• June 9 - 28 Indigenous Australians were killed at the Myall Creek massacre.

July - SeptemberEdit

• 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.

October - DecemberEdit

• 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.
• December - Beginning of Pastry War: Mexico invaded by French forces

UndatedEdit

• 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
• Duke University is established in North Carolina.

1838 in FictionEdit

• F. W. Murnau's film, Nosferatu is set in 1838.

BirthsEdit

January - JuneEdit

• 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 (d. 1913)
• February 16
  • Henry Adams, American historian (d. 1918)
  • 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 12 - John Shaw Billings, M.D., American military and medical leader (d. 1913)
• 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)

July - DecemberEdit

• September 2 - Liliuokalani of Hawai'i, last Queen of Hawaii (d. 1917)
• September 12 - Júlio Diniz, Portuguese writer (b. 1871)
• 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, tenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1918)
• December 3 - Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (d. 1916)
• 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)

See also 1838 births.

DeathsEdit

January - JuneEdit

• January 3 - Prince Maximilian of Saxony (b. 1759)
• January 5 - Anthony Van Egmond, rebel leader in Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837 {died in jail}
• February 21 - Silvestre de Sacy, linguist (b. 1758)
• March 13 - Poul Martin Møller, philosopher (b. 1794)
• April 9 - Piet Uys, Voortrekker leader (in battle) (b. 1797)
• May - Francisco Gómez, president of El Salvador (b. 1796)
• May 17 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754)

July - DecemberEdit

• July 19 - Christmas Evans, preacher (b. 1766)
• August 17 - Lorenzo Da Ponte, librettist for Mozart (b. 1749)
• August 21 - Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (b. 1781)
• September 1 - William Clark, American explorer (b. 1770)
• October 1 - Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist (b. 1768)
• November 21 - Georges Mouton, count of Lobau, Marshal of France (b. 1770)

People of the year 1838 at Familypedia

129 people were born in 1838

96 children were born to the 67 women born in 1838

41 people died in 1838

4768 people lived in 1838

Events of the year 1838 at FamilypediaEdit

101 people were married in 1838.

There were 0 military battles in 1838.

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