1838 Calendar
A year scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

1838 Calendar

January
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031   
February
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
    123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728   
March
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
    123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
April
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
2930     
May
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
  12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  
June
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
     12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
July
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031    
August
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
   1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031 
September
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
      1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
30      
October
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031   
November
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
    123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627282930 
December
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
      1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031     

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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, 1838The 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)