1838

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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
• April 30 - Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation
• June 12 - Territory of Iowa established
• 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
• 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 Jons Jacob 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
• Governor of Missouri order all the Mormons to leave the state
• Augustus Siebe invents a closed diving suit with a helmet
• Louis Daguerre develops Daguerreotype

Births

• January 4 - Charles Stratton ("General Tom Thumb"), circus performer, entertainer (+ 1883)
• January 6 - Max Bruch, composer (+ 1920)
• January 16 - Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (+ 1917)
• February 6 - Henry Irving, English actor (+ 1905)
• February 16 - Henry Adams, American historian (+ 1918)
• February 18 - Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher
• March 3 - George William Hill, astronomer (+ 1914)
• April 8/ July 8 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin, founder of the Zeppelin airship company. (+ 1917)
• April 21 - John Muir, naturalist (+ 1914)
• May 10 - John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham Lincoln
• May 20 - Jules Méline, French statesman (+ 1925)
• October 25 - Georges Bizet, French composer
• November 13 - Joseph Fielding Smith, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1918)
• Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist.

Deaths

• May 17 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (* 1754)
• July 4 - Colonel José Antonio Vidaurre and his accomplices, authors of The Riot of Quillota, Chile were shot.

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