1839

{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1836 1837 1838 - 1839 - 1840 1841 1842\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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\n1839 in sports\n----\nList of state leaders in 1839
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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* January 9 - The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.\n*January 19 - British East India Company captures Aden\n*January 20 - In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats a Peruvian and Bolivian alliance.\n* February 24 - William Otis receives a patent for the steam shovel.\n* March 23 - First recorded use of "OK" oll korrect (Boston Morning Post).\n* March 26 - The first Henley Royal Regatta is held\n* April 19 - The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.\n* June 22 – Louis Daguerre receives patent for his camera (commercially available by September with the prize of 400 Francs)\n* July 1 – Slave rebellion of Amistad\n* August 19 – French government gives Louis Daguerre a pension and gives the daguerreotype "for the whole world"\n* November 17 - Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio opens in Milan.\n* November 27 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded \n*Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mahmud II (1808-1839) to Abd-ul-Mejid (1839-1861)\n* In the United States, the first state law permitting women to own property is passed in Jackson, Mississippi.\n* The first parallax measurement of the distance to Alpha Centauri is published by Thomas Henderson.\n* Excavation on Copan begins

Births

\n*January 19 - Paul Cézanne, painter (+ 1906)\n*February 11 - Josiah Willard Gibbs theoretical physicist/chemist.\n*February 22 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (+ 1906)\n*March 21 - Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer\n*April 12 - Nicholas Michailovitch Prjevalsky, explorer\n*July 8 - John Davison Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist.\n*December 5 - George Armstrong Custer, American cavalry officer.

Deaths

\n*April 11 - John Galt, Scottish novelist, founder of Guelph, Ontario.\n* May 17 - Archibald Alison, Scottish author\n* August 22 - Benjamin Lundy, American abolitionist\n* August 28 - William Smith, geologist/cartographer.\n*November 15 - William Murdoch, inventor \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n