1838

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Years:
1835 1836 1837 - 1838 - 1839 1840 1841

Decades:
1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s

Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

1838 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada - Rail transport - Science - South Africa - Sport

Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders

From Categories:
births - deaths

1838 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).

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Events

January 6 - Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrates the telegraph.
January 8 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code)
January 12 - Joseph Smith, Jr. and Sidney Rigdon flee Ohio for Missouri
March 7 – Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale" debuts at the Stockholm Opera
March 8 - The New Orleans Mint strikes its first coinage, 30 dimes.
April 30 - Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation
May 31 - In Cornwall, self-declared Messiah John Nichols Thom kills a policeman who was sent to arrest him and flees to Bossenden Wood with 30 followers. Later in the day he dies when he tries to rally his followers to fight soldiers of the 45th Foot regiment
June 12 - Territory of Iowa established
1 August - Slavery officially abolished in Trinidad & Tobago
7 September - Grace Darling rescues 9 survivors from the wreck of Forfarshire off the Farne Islands
September 3 - Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a free Black seaman, future abolitionist Frederick Douglass boards a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from slavery
October 16 - Date in the Bill Stump's Stone
October 27 - Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, ordering the expulsion of all Mormons from the state.
November 3 The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce is founded. This paper was later renamed to The Times of India in 1861
November 5 - Honduras separates from the Central American Federation, weakening the confederation.

Proteins discovered by Jöns Jakob Berzelius
the Pastry War
Start of First British-Afghan War
Republic of Yucatan declares independence from Mexico
Start of Central American Civil War
Friedrich Bessel makes the first accurate measurement of distance to a star.
Christian Hermann Weisse proposes the two-source hypothesis of gospel origins, which is held by a majority of biblical scholars to this day.
Regular Atlantic steamship service begins
Augustus Siebe invents a closed diving suit with a helmet
Louis Daguerre develops Daguerreotype
Epidemic kills half of the native population in the Aleuts