Important Events
- Jan 9 Daguerreotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science
- Jan 10 Tea from India 1st arrives in UK
- Aug 19 Details of Louis Daguerre's 1st practical photographic process are released in Paris
- Sep 5 The First Opium War begins in China
- Nov 25 Cyclone slams south eastern India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying city of Coringa. Storm waves sweep inland, destroying 20,000 ships and killing an estimated 300,000 people
1839 in Sport
- Feb 26 1st Grand National steeplechase, Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool: Jem Mason wins aboard 5/1 favourite Lottery
Did You Know?
Slaves aboard a Spanish schooner La Amistad revolt to secure their freedom while being transported from one Cuban port to another
On July 2, 1839
George Armstrong Custer
John D. Rockefeller
Paul Cézanne
Jean-Baptiste LamarckWorld Leaders in 1839
Martin Van Buren
8th US President- William Lamb
British Prime Minister
Martin Van Buren
William LambFamous People in 1839
- Charles Dickens
Novelist
Charles DickensFamous Weddings
- Jan 29 English naturalist and "On the Origin of Species" author Charles Darwin (42) marries Emma Wedgwood (41)
- Jun 18 Dutch prince Willem Alexander (later William III) weds cousin Princess Sophia
- Jul 25 British PM William Gladstone (29) weds Catherine Glynne (27) in England