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1838 Calendar

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•  January 8, 1838 – Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
•  April 30, 1838 – Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.
•  June 10, 1838 – Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
•  June 28, 1838 – Coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
•  July 4, 1838 – The Iowa Territory is organized.
•  August 18, 1838 – The Wilkes Expedition, which would explore the Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighs anchor at Hampton Roads in 1838
•  September 3, 1838 – Future abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery.
•  September 18, 1838 – The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
•  November 5, 1838 – The Federal Republic of Central America begins to disintegrate when Nicaragua separates from the Federation.
•  December 16, 1838 – Battle of Blood River: Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius and Sarel Cilliers defeat Zulu impis, led by Dambuza (Nzobo) and Ndlela kaSompisi in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

•  January 4, 1838 – Charles Sherwood Stratton, American circus performer (d. 1883)
•  January 16, 1838 – Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
•  February 6, 1838 – Sir Henry Irving, British actor (d. 1905)
•  February 28, 1838 – Maurice Lévy, French engineer (d. 1910)
•  April 28, 1838 – Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, Nobel laureate (d. 1913)
•  June 27, 1838 – Paul von Mauser, German weapon designer (d. 1914)
•  September 11, 1838 – John Ireland, American archbishop (d. 1918)
•  October 6, 1838 – Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910)
•  November 13, 1838 – Joseph Fielding Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (d. 1918)
•  December 3, 1838 – Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (d. 1916)