Significant Events
- Jan 11 First public demonstration of telegraph message sent using dots & dashes at Speedwell Ironworks, Morristown, New Jersey by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail
- Jun 28 Coronation of Queen Victoria in Westminster Abbey, London
- Jul 4 Huskar Colliery Mining Disaster in Silkstone England: mining pit floods drown 26 children, leads to 1842 'Mines and Collieries Act' bans women and children working underground
- Aug 18 United States Exploring Expedition headed by Charles Wilkes departs for the Pacific Ocean and Antarctica
World Leaders in 1838
Martin Van Buren
8th US President
William Lamb
British Prime Minister
Famous People in 1838
Charles Dickens
Novelist
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Georges Bizet
John Muir
John Wilkes Booth
Victoria WoodhullWould You Believe?
The Times of India, world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce
On November 3, 1838
Famous Weddings
- Sep 14 Newly escaped slave Frederick Douglass marries free woman Anne Murray in New York
- Nov 11 Emma Wedgwood accepts English naturalist Charles Darwin's marriage proposal
Talleyrand
William Clark