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Year '1838' ('MDCCCXXXVIII') was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1838

January - March

April - June

July - September

October - December

Undated

1838 in Fiction

Births

January - June

July - December

Deaths

January - June

July - December

Events of 1838

January - March

★ January 10 - a fire destroys Lloyd's Coffee House and the Royal Exchange in London.

April - June

★ April 30 - Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation (See Nicaragua's early history)

★ May - The People's Charter drawn up in the United Kingdom demanding universal suffrage.

★ May 26 - USA: Trail of Tears - forced relocation of the Cherokee tribe, killing at least 8,000.

★ June 9 - 28 Indigenous Australians were killed at the Myall Creek massacre.

July - September

★ 1 August - Trinidad and Tobago: Slavery officially abolished

★ 7 September - The paddlesteamer ''Forfarshire'' foundered on the Farne Islands, UK, giving rise to the fame of Grace Darling, who rescued nine passengers.

October - December

★ November 3 India: The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce is founded. This paper was later renamed to The Times of India in 1861

★ November 5 - Central American Civil War begins with Honduras' separation from the Central American Federation.

★ December - Beginning of Pastry War: Mexico invaded by French forces

Undated

★ Yucatan declares independence from Mexico

★ First British-Afghan War begins

★ Proteins discovered by Jöns Jakob Berzelius

★ Friedrich Bessel makes the first accurate measurement of distance to a star.

★ Biblical criticism: Christian Hermann Weisse proposes the two-source hypothesis.

★ Regular Atlantic steamship service begins with the SS Great Western

★ Duke University is established in North Carolina.

1838 in Fiction

★ F. W. Murnau's film, ''Nosferatu'' is set in 1838.

Births

January - June

★ January 4 - General Tom Thumb, American circus performer and entertainer (d. 1883)

★ January 6 - Max Bruch, German composer (d. 1920)

★ January 16 - Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)

★ February 6 - Henry Irving, English actor (d. 1905)

★ February 10 - Gustav Oelwein, founder of Oelwein, Iowa (d. 1913)

★ February 16

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★ Henry Adams, American historian (d. 1918)

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★ Ōkuma Shigenobu - Japanese politician (d. 1922)

★ February 18 - Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1916)

★ March 3 - George William Hill, American astronomer (d. 1914)

★ April 3 - John Willis Menard, African-American politician (d. 1893)

★ April 8 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German inventor (d. 1917)

★ April 12 - John Shaw Billings, M.D., American military and medical leader (d. 1913)

★ April 16 - Martha McClellan Brown, American temperance movement leader (d. 1916)

★ April 28 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1913)

★ April 21 - John Muir, American ecologist (d. 1914)

★ May 10 - John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin (d. 1865)

★ May 20 - Jules Méline, French statesman (d. 1925)

July - December

★ September 2 - Liliuokalani of Hawai'i, last Queen of Hawaii (d. 1917)

★ September 12 - Júlio Diniz, Portuguese writer (b. 1871)

★ October 6 - Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910)

★ October 25 - Georges Bizet, French composer (d. 1875)

★ October 31 - King Luis I of Portugal (d. 1889)

★ November 7 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889)

★ November 13 - Joseph Fielding Smith, tenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1918)

★ December 3 - Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (d. 1916)

★ December 19 - Khedrup Gyatso, eleventh Dalai Lama (d. 1856)

★ December 20 - Edwin Abbott Abbott, theologian and author (d. 1926)

★ December 30 - Émile Loubet, 7th President of France (d. 1929)
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Deaths

January - June

★ January 3 - Prince Maximilian of Saxony (b. 1759)

★ January 5 - Anthony Van Egmond, rebel leader in Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837 {died in jail}

★ February 21 - Silvestre de Sacy, linguist (b. 1758)

★ March 13 - Poul Martin Møller, philosopher (b. 1794)

★ April 9 - Piet Uys, Voortrekker leader (in battle) (b. 1797)

★ May - Francisco Gómez, president of El Salvador (b. 1796)

★ May 17 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754)

July - December

★ July 19 - Christmas Evans, preacher (b. 1766)

★ August 17 - Lorenzo Da Ponte, librettist for Mozart (b. 1749)

★ August 21 - Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (b. 1781)

★ September 1 - William Clark, American explorer (b. 1770)

★ October 1 - Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist (b. 1768)

★ November 21 - Georges Mouton, count of Lobau, Marshal of France (b. 1770)
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