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1835

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Table of contents
1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

\n* January 1 – Ole Pedersen Hoiland breaks into the Bank of Norway and steals 64.000 dalers\n* January 30 - Unsuccessful assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol - first assassination attempt against a President of the United States.\n* March 2 - Ferdinand becomes Emperor of Austria.\n* April 18 - Lord Melbourne succeeds Sir Robert Peel as British Prime Minister.\n* The Australian city of Melbourne is founded by John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner.\n* May 5 - In Belgium a railway is opened between Brussels and Mechelen. It is the first railway in continental Europe.\n* May 6 - James Gordon Bennett publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.\n* July 4 - The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad completed construction of its Thomas Viaduct then the longest bridge in the United States, and second only to London Bridge in the world.\n* August 25 - The Great Moon Hoax begins.\n* September 7Charles Darwin arrives to Galapagos Islands aboard HMS Beagle\n* October 2 - Texas Revolution begins: Battle of Gonzales - Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.\n*December 9 - The Army of the Republic of Texas captures San Antonio.\n* December 16 - Fire in New York City destroys 530 buildings\n* December 28 - Seminole chief Osceola and his warriors attack government agent Thompson outside Fort King in Central Florida - it means the outbreak of the Second Seminole War \n* The Toledo War was fought between the State of Ohio and the Michigan Territory over the city of Toledo and the Toledo Strip.\n* De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestum, Copernicus' book on the motion of the Earth, is removed from the Index of Prohibited Books.\n* Samuel Colt patents the first revolver\n* Civil war erupts in Uruguay between supporters of Blanco and Colorado parties\n* Cachar Levy, forerunner of Assam Rifles, is founded in India

Births

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February 15 - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek IOC president\n*March 24 - Jožef Stefan, Slovene physicist, mathematician and poet (d. 1893)\n*March 29 - Gustaf Zander, physician (d. 1920)\n*April 9 - King Leopold II of the Belgians (d. 1909)\n*June 2 - Pope Pius X (d. 1914)\n*October 7 - Felix Draeseke, composer (d. 1913)\n*October 9 - Camille Saint-Saëns, composer (d. 1921)\n*October 23 - Adlai E. Stevenson, Vice President of the United States (d. 1914)\n*November 21 - Hetty Green, businesswoman (d. 1916)\n*November 25 - Andrew Carnegie, industrialist, philanthropist (d. 1919)\n*November 29 - Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty of China.\n*November 30 - Mark Twain, author, humorist (d. 1910)\n*December 4 - Samuel Butler, writer (d. 1902)\n*December 18 - Lyman Abbott, author (d. 1922)

Deaths

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March 2 - Emperor Francis I of Austria (b. 1768)\n*March 18 - Christian Gunther von Bernstorff, Danish and Prussian statesman and diplomat (b. 1769)\n*April 8 - Wilhelm von Humboldt, linguist, philosopher (b. 1767)\n*April 21 - Samuel Slater, US industrialist (b. 1768)\n*May 13 - John Nash, architect (b. 1752)\n*June 18 - William Cobbett, journalist and author (b. 1763)\n*September 23 - Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (b. 1801) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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