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October 1 :Battle of Maella November 27 : Start of theFirst French intervention in Mexico 1838 (MDCCCXXXVIII ) was acommon year starting on Monday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Saturday of theJulian calendar , the 1838th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 38th year of the19th century , and the 9th year of the1830s decade. As of the start of 1838, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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January 10 – A fire destroysLloyd's Coffee House and theRoyal Exchange in London.January 11 – AtMorristown, New Jersey ,Samuel Morse ,Alfred Vail andLeonard Gale give the first public demonstration of Morse's new invention, thetelegraph .[ 1] January 21 – The first known report about thelowest temperature on Earth is made, indicating −60 °C (−76 °F) inYakutsk .January 23 – A7.5 earthquake strikes the Romanian district ofVrancea causing damage inMoldavia andWallachia , killing 73 people.February 6 – Boer explorerPiet Retief and 60 of his men are massacred by KingDingane kaSenzangakhona of theZulu people , after Retief accepts an invitation to celebrate the signing of a treaty, and his men willingly disarm as a show of good faith.[ 2] February 17 –Weenen massacre : Zuluimpis massacre about 532Voortrekkers ,Khoikhoi andBasuto around the site ofWeenen in South Africa.February 24 – U.S. RepresentativesWilliam J. Graves of Kentucky andJonathan Cilley of Maine face each other in a duel with rifles at 80 yards nearBladensburg, Maryland . On the third attempt, Congressman Cilley is fatally wounded and bleeds to death.[ 3] March 13 – A combination of rain and melting snow causes theDanube River to overflow its banks, washing away villages in westernHungary and inundating the twin cities that becomeBudapest . More than 150 people are drowned and Europe's nations come to Hungary's aid to prevent the spread of famine and disease.[ 4] March 31 – The first installment ofNicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens , is released as the opener of a 20-part serialization in London.[ 5] July 4 – In the United States, theIowa Territory is formally established, following the signing of a bill by PresidentMartin Van Buren onJune 12 . In addition toIowa , which will become a state on December 28, 1846, the Territory also includes most of what will become the states ofMinnesota ,North Dakota andSouth Dakota .Robert Lucas , former Governor of Ohio, takes office as the first Territorial Governor.[ 10] August 1 – Most former slaves in theBritish Empire are released from apprenticeships, giving them full emancipation under terms of theSlavery Abolition Act 1833 .August 6 – The Polytechnic Institution, predecessor of theUniversity of Westminster and Britain's firstpolytechnic , opens inRegent Street , London.[ 11] September 7 –Grace Darling and her father rescue 13 survivors from theForfarshire Farne Islands .September 18 – TheAnti-Corn Law League is established in Britain byRichard Cobden .Ernst Mach Ernest Solvay Isabelle Bogelot January 4 –General Tom Thumb , American circus performer, entertainer (d.1883 )January 6 January 16 –Franz Brentano , German philosopher, psychologist (d.1917 )January 29 –Edward W. Morley , American chemist noted for working on theMichelson–Morley experiment (d.1923 )February 2 –John Joseph Jolly Kyle , Scots-born Argentine chemist (d.1922 )[ 17] February 6 –Sir Henry Irving , English actor (d.1905 )February 9 –Sir Evelyn Wood , British field marshal, Victoria Cross recipient (d.1919 )February 12 –Julius Dresser , American writer (d.1893 )February 13 –Annetta Seabury Dresser , American writer (d.1893 )February 16 –Henry Brooks Adams , American historian (d.1918 )February 18 –Ernst Mach , Austrian physicist, philosopher (d.1916 )March 3 –George William Hill , American astronomer (d.1914 )March 11 –Ōkuma Shigenobu , Japanese politician (d.1922 )March 12 –Sir William Perkin , English chemist (d.1907 )March 15 –Alice Cunningham Fletcher , Americanethnologist ,anthropologist , andsocial scientist (d.1923 )April 2 –Léon Gambetta , 37th Prime Minister of France (d.1882 )April 3 –John Willis Menard , African-American politician (d.1893 )April 12 –John Shaw Billings , American military and medical leader (d.1913 )April 16 April 18 –Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran , French chemist (d.1912 )April 21 –John Muir , American ecologist (d.1914 )April 28 –Tobias Asser , Dutch jurist, recipient of theNobel Peace Prize (d.1913 )May 10 –John Wilkes Booth , American actor, assassin ofAbraham Lincoln (d.1865 )May 11 –Isabelle Bogelot , French philanthropist (d.1923 )May 20 –Jules Méline , French statesman (d.1925 )July full date unknown –Bass Reeves , one of the first blackDeputy U.S. Marshals west of theMississippi River (d.1910 )June 14 –Yamagata Aritomo , Japanese field marshal, Prime Minister (d.1922 )June 19 –Mary Cole Walling , American patriot, lecturer (d.1925 )June 24 –Gustav von Schmoller , German economist (d.1917 )June 27 –Bankim Chandra Chatterjee , Indian author (d.1894 )Ferdinand von Zeppelin Georges Bizet July 1 –Marie-Louise Jaÿ , French businesswoman (d.1925 )July 5 –Vatroslav Jagić , Croatian scholar (d.1923 )July 7 –Felice Napoleone Canevaro , Italian admiral (d.1926 )July 8 –Ferdinand von Zeppelin , German military officer, founder of the Zeppelin Company (d.1917 )July 11 –John Wanamaker , American merchant and religious, civic and political figure (d.1922 )July 20 –Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet , British statesman, author (d.1928 )September 2 September 17 –Valeriano Weyler , Spanish general (d.1930 )September 21 September 27 –Lawrence Sullivan Ross ,Confederate brigadier general, Texas governor and president ofTexas A&M University (d.1898 )September 28 –Sai Baba , Indian spiritual master and National saint (d.1918 )September 29 –Henry Hobson Richardson , American architect (d.1886 )September 30 –Phoebe Jane Babcock Wait , American physician (d.1904 )October 6 –Giuseppe Cesare Abba , Italian patriot, writer (d.1910 )October 8 –John Hay , diplomat, private secretary toAbraham Lincoln , 37thUnited States Secretary of State (d. 1905)October 25 –Georges Bizet ,French composer (d.1875 )October 31 – KingLuís I of Portugal (d.1889 )November 1 –Khedrup Gyatso, 11th Dalai Lama (d.1856 )November 4 –Constantin Budișteanu (birth also reported asSeptember 21 ), Wallachian-born Romanian soldier and politician (d.1911 )November 7 –Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam , French writer (d.1889 )November 8 –Rufus W. Peckham ,Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d.1909 )November 13 –Joseph F. Smith , 6th president ofthe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d.1918 )November 17 –Sir Lambton Loraine, 11th Baronet , British naval officer (d.1917 )November 20 –Hedvig Raa-Winterhjelm , pioneer Scandinavian actor (d.1907 )November 23 –Stephanos Skouloudis , 34th Prime Minister of Greece (d.1928 )November 29 –Giovanni Losi , Italian Combonian missionary (d.1882 )December 3 –Cleveland Abbe , American meteorologist (d.1916 )December 3 –Octavia Hill , British social reformer (d.1912 )December 19 –Darinka Petrovic , Princess consort of Montenegro (d.1892 )December 20 –Edwin Abbott Abbott , English theologian, author (d.1926 )December 30 –Émile Loubet , 8thPresident of France (d.1929 )January 3 –Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony (b.1759 )January 5 –Anthony Van Egmond , leader in Upper Canada Rebellion of1837 (d. in jail) (b.1778 )January 12 –Joshua Humphreys , American naval architect (b.1751 )January 13 –John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon , Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b.1751 )February 21 –Silvestre de Sacy , French linguist (b.1758 )February 24 –Christoph Johann von Medem , German courtier (b.1763 )March 7 –Robert Townsend (spy) , American member of theCulper Spy Ring (b.1753 )[ 18] March 13 –Poul Martin Møller , Danish philosopher (b.1794 )March 16 –Nathaniel Bowditch , American mathematician (b.1773 )March 23 –Michael Anckarsvärd , Swedish politician (b.1742 )April 3 –François Carlo Antommarchi , French physician (b.1780 )April 6 –José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva , Brazilian statesman, naturalist (b.1763 )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-Périgord , French politician (b.1754 )[ 19] May 19 –Sir Richard Hoare , English archaeologist (b.1758 )May 23 –Jan Willem Janssens ,Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b.1762 )June 4 –Thomas Hancorne , Welsh Anglican clergyman and judicial officer (b.1752 )June 14 –Maximilian von Montgelas , Bavarian statesman (b.1759 )Alexandra Branitskaya July 19 –Christmas Evans , Welsh preacher (b.1766 )August 1 –John Rodgers , American naval officer (b.1772 )August 17 –Lorenzo Da Ponte , librettist forMozart (b.1749 )August 21 –Adelbert von Chamisso , German writer (b.1781 )September 1 –William Clark , American explorer (b.1770 )September 15 –Alexandra Branitskaya , Russian political activist, courtier and businessperson (b.1754 )September 18 –Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington (b.1752 )September 27 –Bernard Courtois , French chemist (b.1777 )October 1 –Charles Tennant , Scottish chemist, industrialist (b.1768 )October 3 –Black Hawk , Sauk Indian chief, autobiographer (b.1767 )October 5 –Pauline Léon , French feminist, radical (b.1768 )November 7 –Anne Grant , Scottish poet (b.1755 )November 21 –Georges Mouton , count of Lobau,Marshal of France (b.1770 )December 12 –Elisha Clark , American politician (b.1752 )December 20 –Hégésippe Moreau , French writer and poet (b.1810 )^ Russell W. 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