1839

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Years: 1836 1837 1838 - 1839 - 1840 1841 1842
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1839 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).

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Events

January 9 - The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
January 19 - British East India Company captures Aden
January 20 - In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats a Peruvian and Bolivian alliance.
February 11 - The University of Missouri is established, becoming the first public university west of the Mississippi River.
February 24 - William Otis receives a patent for the steam shovel.
March 23 - First recorded use of "OK" oll korrect (Boston Morning Post).
March 26 - The first Henley Royal Regatta is held
9 April - The world's first commercial electric telegraph line comes into operation alongside the Great Western Railway line from Paddington station to West Drayton.
April 19 - The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.
June 22 – Louis Daguerre receives patent for his camera (commercially available by September with the prize of 400 Francs)
July 1 – Slave rebellion of Amistad
August 8 – The Beta Theta Pi fraternity was founded in Oxford, Ohio
August 19 – French government gives Louis Daguerre a pension and gives the daguerreotype "for the whole world"
October 3 - In the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies a railway between Napoli and Portici (7.4km length) has been inaugurated by H.M. the King Ferdinand II of Bourbon. It is the very first railway in the Italian peninsula.
November 11 - The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
November 17 - Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio opens in Milan.
November 25 - Disastrous cyclone slams India with terrible winds and a giant 40 foot storm surge, wiping out the port city of Coringa. 300,000 people die.
November 27 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded

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Undated

Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mahmud II (1808-1839) to Abd-ul-Mejid (1839-1861)
In the United States, the first state law permitting women to own property is passed in Jackson, Mississippi.
The first parallax measurement of the distance to Alpha Centauri is published by Thomas Henderson.
Excavation on Copan begins
Half of the Limburg province of Belgium was added to the Netherlands, since 1839 there is a Belgian Limburg and Dutch Limburg.
Abd al-Kader declares a jihad against the French.
Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia is founded.