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( 1830s: )     1835
January 8 – The United States public debt contracts to zero, for the only time in history
year 1835

Events

January–March

• January 7 – Template:Ship anchors off the Chonos Archipelago on her second voyage, with Charles Darwin on board as naturalist.
• January 8 – The United States public debt contracts to zero, for the only time in history.
• January 24 – Malê Revolt: African slaves of Yoruba Muslim origin revolt in Salvador, Bahia.
• January 26 – Queen Maria II of Portugal marries Auguste de Beauharnais, 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg, in Lisbon; he dies only two months later.
• January 26 – Saint Paul's in Macau largely destroyed by fire after a typhoon hits.
• January 30 – An assassination is attempted against United States President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol (the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States).
• February 1 – Slavery is abolished in Mauritius.
• February 20 – 1835 Concepción earthquake: Concepción, Chile, is destroyed by an earthquake; the resulting tsunami destroys the neighboring city of Talcahuano.
• March 2 – Ferdinand becomes Emperor of Austria.
• March 23 – The Academia Mexicana de la Lengua (Mexican Academy of Language) is established.

April–June

• April 18 – Lord Melbourne succeeds Sir Robert Peel as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• May 5
  • Rail transport in Belgium: A railway is opened between Brussels and Mechelen, the first in continental Europe.
  • Braulio Carrillo is sworn in as Head of State of Costa Rica.
• May 8 – Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection. begins publication.
• May 11 – Matua, High Priest (taura tupua) of the Polynesian island of Mangareva, is baptized into the Roman Catholic Church.
• May 23 – The Mexican State of Aguascalientes is formed, by decree of President Santa Anna.
• June 1 – Kingston Penitentiary in Kingston, Ontario opens.

July–September

• July – Bertelsmann is founded by Carl Bertelsmann as a religious printer and publisher in Prussia.
• July 14 – The universal Catholic Apostolic Church is organized, initially in the U.K.
• July 28 – In Paris, the assassination of King Louis Philippe I of France is attempted by Giuseppe Marco Fieschi, using a home-made volley gun; 10 are killed, but the King escapes with a minor wound.
• August – H. Fox Talbot exposes the world's first known photographic negatives, at Lacock Abbey in England.
• August 25 – In the U.S., The New York Sun prints the first of six installments of the Great Moon Hoax.
• August 28 – St. Vincent's Ecclesiastical Seminary, a predecessor of Castleknock College, is founded by the Vincentian community in Dublin, Ireland.
• August 30 – European settlers, landing on the north banks of the Yarra River in Victoria, Australia, found the settlement of Melbourne.
• September 7 – Charles Darwin arrives at the Galápagos Islands, aboard Template:Ship.
• September 19 – William Lloyd Garrison publishes Angelina Grimké's anti-slavery letter in The Liberator.
• September 20 – The Ragamuffin War begins in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

October–December

• October 2 – The Texas Revolution – Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
• October 3 – The Staedtler Company (pencil manufacturers) is founded by J. S. Staedtler in Nuremberg, Germany.
• October 28
  • The United Tribes of New Zealand is founded at Waitangi, with the Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand.
  • Texas Revolution – Battle of Concepción: The Texian Army defeats the Mexicans.
• November 16 – Halley's Comet reaches perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun.
• November 19 – A force of 500 Māori people invade and enslave the peoples of the Chatham Islands.
• November 27 – Two London men, James Pratt and John Smith, are hanged in front of Newgate Prison in London, after a conviction of buggery. They are the last to suffer capital punishment for homosexual acts in England.
• December 7
  • The Bavarian Ludwig Railway opens between Nuremberg and Fürth, with a train hauled by the English-built Der Adler ("The Eagle"), the first railway in Germany.
  • Future U.S. President James K. Polk becomes Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
• December 9 – The Army of the Republic of Texas captures San Antonio.
• December 16–17 – The Great Fire of New York destroys 530 buildings, including the New York Stock Exchange.
• December 20 – The Texas Declaration of Independence is first signed at Goliad, Texas.
• December 21 – The Raleigh and Gaston Railroad is chartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.
• December 28 – United States: The Second Seminole War led by Osceola breaks out.
• December 29 – The Treaty of New Echota is signed between the United States Government, and members of the Cherokee Nation.

Date unknown

• The British East India Company negotiates a lease of the Darjeeling area west of the Mahananda River, from the Kingdom of Sikkim.
• The British Geological Survey is founded, as the world's first national geological survey.
• Civil war erupts in Uruguay, between supporters of the Blanco and Colorado parties.
• The Cachar Levy, forerunner of the Assam Rifles, is founded in India.
• The first Bulgarian-language school opens in the Ottoman Empire.
• The French word for their language changes to français, from françois.
• Fort Cass is established, the military headquarters and site of the largest internment camps during the 1838 Trail of Tears.
• Charles-Louis Havas creates Havas, the first news agency in the world (which later spawns Agence France-Presse).
• English becomes the official language of India.
• Juan Manuel de Rosas becomes Caudillo of Argentina.
• Edward Strutt Abdy publishes his Journal of a Residence and Tour in the United States of North America: From April, 1833, to October 1834.
• David Strauss begins publication of Das Leben Jessu, kritisch bearbeitet ("The life of Jesus, critically examined") in Tübingen.

 

Event

Event	Start	End
Pax Brittanica	1815	1915

 

A New Group

Group	Image
Bertelsmann

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Leopold II of Belgium	April 1835	Belgium Brussels	17 December 1909	Royalty Belgium/VIPaedophile
Richard Olney	15 September 1835	United States Massachusetts Oxford	8 April 1917	Lawyer	Lawyer for the business affairs of Boston's elite families. United States Attorney General who used troops against strikers. Enforcer of the Monroe doctrine.
Andrew Carnegie	25 November 1835	Scotland Fife Dunfermline UK	11 August 1919	Businessperson
Mark Twain	30 November 1835		21 April 1910

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