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1839 Calendar

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•  January 19, 1839 – The British East India Company captures Aden.
•  January 20, 1839 – In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats an alliance between Peru and Bolivia.
•  March 26, 1839 – The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
•  June 3, 1839 – In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
•  June 14, 1839 – Henley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley-on-Thames, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first Regatta.
•  July 3, 1839 – The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today’s Framingham State College, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with 3 students.
•  August 19, 1839 – The French government announces that Louis Daguerre’s photographic process is a gift “free to the world”.
•  November 4, 1839 – The Newport Rising: the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
•  November 11, 1839 – The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
•  November 27, 1839 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.

•  February 6, 1839 – Eduard Hitzig, German neurologist and neuropsychiatrist (d. 1907)
•  June 18, 1839 – William Henry Seward, Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (d. 1920)
•  August 4, 1839 – Walter Pater, English essayist and critic (d. 1894)
•  August 8, 1839 – Nelson Miles, American general (d. 1925)
•  September 10, 1839 – Isaac K. Funk, American publisher (d. 1912)
•  September 25, 1839 – Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (d. 1904)
•  October 30, 1839 – Alfred Sisley, Anglo-French artist (d. 1899)
•  November 16, 1839 – Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet (d. 1908)
•  November 20, 1839 – Christian Wilberg, German painter (d. 1882)
•  December 23, 1839 – János Murkovics, Slovene writer and teacher in Hungary (d. 1917)