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== Events ==
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* [[January 9]] – The [[French Academy of Sciences]] announces the [[daguerreotype]] [[photography]] process.
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* [[January 19]] – British forces [[Aden Expedition|capture Aden]].
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* [[March 9]] – The [[Anti-Corn Law League]] is founded in [[Manchester]], England.
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* [[April 9]] – The world's [[Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph|first commercial electric telegraph line]] comes into operation, alongside the [[Great Western Railway]] line in England, from [[London Paddington station]] to [[West Drayton]].
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* [[April 19]] – The [[Treaty of London (1839)|Treaty of London]] establishes [[Belgium]] as a [[Monarchy|kingdom]], with its independence and neutrality guaranteed by the [[great power]]s of Europe.
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* [[May 7]] – The [[Bedchamber Crisis]] begins in the United Kingdom, after Prime Minister [[William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne|Lord Melbourne]] announces his resignation. <ref> Mark Hovell, ''The Chartist Movement'' (Manchester University Press, 1966) p143 </ref> [[Queen Victoria]] asks several MPs to form a new government, and they insist on the condition that the Queen dismiss several of her personal attendants, the [[ladies of the bedchamber]], for political reasons.
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* [[May 12]] – Socialist activist [[Louis Auguste Blanqui]] and the ''Société des Saisons'' begin an uprising against the government of [[France]].  The insurrection is suppressed, but not before 50 people are killed and 190 wounded.  Blanqui is imprisoned until [[1848]]. <ref> Jill Harsin, ''Barricades: The War of the Streets in Revolutionary Paris, 1830-1848'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) p124 </ref>
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* [[May 22]] – Former British statesman [[John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham|Lord Durham]], as President of the [[New Zealand Company]], formally asks the British government for permission to colonize [[New Zealand]], and to establish a colonial government under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom.  <ref>T. Lindsay Buick, ''The French at Akaroa: An Adventure in Colonization'' (Cambridge University Press, 1928)(reprinted 2011) p294</ref>
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* [[June 3]] – [[Destruction of opium at Humen]] begins, ''[[casus belli]]'' for Britain to open the 3-year [[First Opium War]] against [[Qing Dynasty]] China. A rapid rise in the sale of opium in China to over 40,000 chests (~{{convert|56,000|kg}}) per annum results. <ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=QNo8AAAAIAAJ quote=expansion in imports from 16,550 chests in the season 1831-2 to over 30,000 in 1835-6, and 40,000 in 1838-9}}</ref> has caused the Chinese government to dispatch scholar-official [[Lin Zexu]] to [[Guangzhou]] to deal with the [[History of opium in China|growing problem of opium addiction]].
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* [[June 22]] – [[Louis Daguerre]] receives a patent for his camera (commercially available by September at the price of 400 francs).
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* [[July 23]] – [[First Anglo-Afghan War]] – [[Battle of Ghazni]]: British forces capture the fortress city of [[Ghazni]], [[Afghanistan]].
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* [[August 31]] – The [[First Carlist War]] (Spain) ends with the [[Convenio de Vergara]], also known as the Abrazo de Vergara ("the embrace in Vergara"; Bergara in Basque), between liberal general [[Baldomero Espartero, Prince of Vergara|Baldomero Espartero, Count of Luchana]] and Carlist General Rafael Maroto.
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* [[September 4]] – [[Battle of Kowloon]]: British vessels open fire on Chinese war [[Junk (ship)|junks]] enforcing a food sales embargo on the British community in China in the first armed conflict of the [[First Opium War]].
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* [[November 4]] – [[Newport Rising]]: Between 5,000 and 10,000 [[Chartism|Chartist]] sympathisers march on [[Newport, Monmouthshire]], to liberate Chartist prisoners; around 22 are killed when troops fire on the crowd.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20070926235009/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/citizenship/struggle_democracy/lovell.htm</ref> This is the last large-scale armed civil rebellion against authority in mainland Britain and sees the most deaths.
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* [[November 27]] – The [[American Statistical Association]] is founded in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]].
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* [[December 6]] – The [[Whig Party (United States)]], at its first ever [[1839 Whig National Convention|national convention]], in [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]], nominates former U.S. Army General [[William Henry Harrison]] to be its candidate for President of the United States in the [[1840]] election. Although Senator [[Henry Clay]] of Kentucky has received 103 of the 128 necessary votes on the first ballot, he obtains only 90 on the final vote, while Harrison gets 148. Former U.S. Senator [[John Tyler]] is unanimously nominated for vice president.
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* In the United States, the first state law permitting women to own property is passed in [[Jackson, Mississippi]].
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* The [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]], backed by the [[Russian Empire]] and the [[Austrian Empire]], compels [[July Monarchy]] France to abandon [[Muhammad Ali of Egypt]], and forces him to return [[Syria]] and [[Arabia]] to the [[Ottoman Empire]].
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* ''[[Tanzimat]]'' starts in the [[Ottoman Empire]].
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* [[Michael Faraday]] publishes "Experimental Researches in Electricity", clarifying the true nature of [[electricity]].
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* [[Charles Goodyear]] [[Vulcanization|vulcanizes]] [[rubber]].
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* [[Valley Falls Company]], as predecessor of [[Berkshire Hathaway]], a [[Conglomerate (company)|conglomerate]] and [[Holdings company|holdings business]] in [[United States]], was founded in [[Rhode Island]].
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Latest revision as of 23:01, 2 March 2021

1829 < 1830 < 1831 < 1832 < 1833 < 1834 < 1835 <1836 < 1837 < 1838 < 1839 > 1840 > 1841 > 1842 > 1843 > 1844 > 1845 > 1846 > 1847 > 1848 > 1849

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November 4 – Newport Rising

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Pax Brittanica18151915

 

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A Death

TitleBornDiedPlace of death
William Bentinck14 September 177417 June 1839France
Paris

 

Births

TitleBornPlace of birthDiedSummaryDescription
John D. Rockefeller8 July 1839New York
Richford
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Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
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References

  1. Mark Hovell, The Chartist Movement (Manchester University Press, 1966) p143
  2. Jill Harsin, Barricades: The War of the Streets in Revolutionary Paris, 1830-1848 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) p124
  3. T. Lindsay Buick, The French at Akaroa: An Adventure in Colonization (Cambridge University Press, 1928)(reprinted 2011) p294
  4. https://books.google.com/books?id=QNo8AAAAIAAJ quote=expansion in imports from 16,550 chests in the season 1831-2 to over 30,000 in 1835-6, and 40,000 in 1838-9}}
  5. https://web.archive.org/web/20070926235009/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/citizenship/struggle_democracy/lovell.htm