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1838 Historical Event(s)
January 8, 1838
– Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
January 11, 1838
– Samuel Morse first successfully tests the electrical telegraph.
February 17, 1838
– Weenen massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal are killed by Zulus.
February 28, 1838
– Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Quebec)
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 1, 1838
– Non-labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
November 3, 1838
– The Times of India, the world’s largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
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.
Who Were Born On 1838?
January 16, 1838
– Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
February 16, 1838
– Henry Adams, American historian and novelist (d. 1918)
February 18, 1838
– Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist (d. 1916)
March 12, 1838
– William Henry Perkin, English chemist (d. 1907)
April 2, 1838
– Léon Gambetta, French statesman (d. 1882)
April 21, 1838
– John Muir, Scottish-born American environmentalist (d. 1914)
April 28, 1838
– Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, Nobel laureate (d. 1913)
September 23, 1838
– Victoria Woodhull, American suffragist (d. 1927)
November 1, 1838
– Khedrup Gyatso, 11th Dalai Lama (d. 1856)
December 20, 1838
– Edwin Abbott Abbott, English schoolmaster, theologian, and author (d. 1926)