1838

Years: 1835 1836 1837 - 1838 - 1839 1840 1841
Decades: 1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1838 in art 1838 in literature 1838 in science 1838 in music 1838 in sports List of state leaders in 1838 List of religious leaders in 1838

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

January 6 - Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrates the telegraph.
January 8 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code)
January 12 - Joseph Smith, Jr and Sidney Rigdon flee Ohio for Missouri
March 7 ÃÂ Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale" debuts at the Stockholm Opera
June 12 - Territory of Iowa established
September 3 - Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a free Black seaman, future abolitionist Frederick Douglass boards a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from slavery
October 16 - Date in the Bill Stump's Stone
November 5 - Honduras separates from the Central American Federation, weakening the confederation.
Proteins discovered by Jons Jacob Berzelius
the Pastry War
Start of First British-Afghan War
Republic of Yucatan declares independence from Mexico
Start of Central American Civil War
Friedrich Bessel makes the first accurate measurement of distance to a star.
Christian Hermann Weisse proposes the two-source hypothesis of gospel origins, which is held by a majority of biblical scholars to this day.
Regular Atlantic steamship service begins
Governor of Missouri order all the Mormons to leave the state
Augustus Siebe invents a closed diving suit with a helmet
Louis Daguerre develops Daguerreotype