1838 Calendar
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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).
February 17, 1838
– Weenen massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal are killed by Zulus.
April 30, 1838
– Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.
July 4, 1838
– The Iowa Territory is organized.
July 15, 1838
– Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
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 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 5, 1838
– Camille Jordan, French mathematician (d. 1922)
February 6, 1838
– Sir Henry Irving, British actor (d. 1905)
February 16, 1838
– Henry Adams, American historian and novelist (d. 1918)
February 18, 1838
– Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist (d. 1916)
May 31, 1838
– Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (d. 1900)
September 11, 1838
– John Ireland, American archbishop (d. 1918)
October 6, 1838
– Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910)
October 25, 1838
– Georges Bizet, French composer (d. 1875)
December 11, 1838
– John Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer (d. 1915)
December 30, 1838
– Émile Loubet, 7th President of France (d. 1929)