1839
Appearance
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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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 |
Gregorian calendar | 1839 MDCCCXXXIX |
Ab urbe condita | 2592 |
Armenian calendar | 1288 ԹՎ ՌՄՁԸ |
Assyrian calendar | 6589 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1760–1761 |
Bengali calendar | 1246 |
Berber calendar | 2789 |
British Regnal year | 2 Vict. 1 – 3 Vict. 1 |
Buddhist calendar | 2383 |
Burmese calendar | 1201 |
Byzantine calendar | 7347–7348 |
Chinese calendar | 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4535 or 4475 — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4536 or 4476 |
Coptic calendar | 1555–1556 |
Discordian calendar | 3005 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1831–1832 |
Hebrew calendar | 5599–5600 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1895–1896 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1760–1761 |
- Kali Yuga | 4939–4940 |
Holocene calendar | 11839 |
Igbo calendar | 839–840 |
Iranian calendar | 1217–1218 |
Islamic calendar | 1254–1255 |
Japanese calendar | Tenpō 10 (天保10年) |
Javanese calendar | 1766–1767 |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 12 days |
Korean calendar | 4172 |
Minguo calendar | 73 before ROC 民前73年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 371 |
Thai solar calendar | 2381–2382 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) 1965 or 1584 or 812 — to — 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 1966 or 1585 or 813 |
1839 (MDCCCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1839th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 839th year of the 2nd millennium, the 39th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1830s decade. As of the start of 1839, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Events
[change | change source]- January 19 – British East India Company captures Aden
- January 20 – In the Battle of Yungay, Peruvian and Bolivian soldiers lose to Chilean soldiers.
- February 24 – William Otis patents for the steam shovel
- March 23 – First known use of "OK" oll korrect in the Boston Morning Post
- March 26 – The first Henley Royal Regatta
- April 9 – The world's first commercial electric telegraph line is built, next to the Great Western Railway line from Paddington station to West Drayton.
- April 19 – The Treaty of London makes the kingdom of Belgium
- June 22 – Louis Daguerre receives patent for his Daguerrotype camera. By September a company sells copies of the camera for 400 French Francs.
- July 1 – Slaves fight their masters on the Amistad
- November 11 – The Virginia Military Institute starts in Lexington, Virginia, USA
- November 17 – Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio opens in Milan.
Undated
[change | change source]- Abd-ul-Mejid becomes emperor of the Ottoman Empire.
- Mississippi passes the first state law in the U.S. letting women own property.
- The first parallax measurement of the distance to Alpha Centauri is found by Thomas Henderson.
- Excavation on Copan begins
- Half of the Limburg province of Belgium was added to the Netherlands, making a Belgian Limburg and Dutch Limburg.
- Abd al-Kader makes a jihad against the French.
Births
[change | change source]- January 19 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (died 1906)
- February 11 – Josiah Willard Gibbs American physicist and chemist (died 1903)
- February 22 – Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (died 1906)
- March 9 – Phoebe Knapp, American hymnwriter (died 1908)
- March 21 – Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer (died 1881)
- April 12 – Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (died 1888)
- July 8 – John Davison Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist (died 1937)
- July 17 – Ephraim Shay, Inventor (died 1916, see Shay locomotive)
- December 5 – George Armstrong Custer, American cavalry officer (died 1876)
Deaths
[change | change source]- April 1 – Benjamin Pierce, U.S. politician (born 1757)
- April 2 – Hezekiah Niles, American editor and publisher (born 1777)
- April 11 – John Galt, Scottish novelist (born 1779)
- May 17 – Archibald Alison, Scottish writer (born 1757)
- August 10 – John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (born 1758)
- August 22 – Benjamin Lundy, American abolitionist (born 1789)
- August 28 – William Smith, English geologist and cartographer (born 1769)
- November 15 – William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (born 1754)
- December 3 – Frederick VI, King of Denmark, ex-King of Norway (born 1768)