1839 Calendar
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1839 Historical Event(s)
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.
June 22, 1839
– Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
July 2, 1839
– Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinqué take over the slave ship Amistad.
September 5, 1839
– United Kingdom declared First Opium War on the Qing Dynasty of China.
November 11, 1839
– The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
November 17, 1839
– Oberto, Giuseppe Verdi’s first opera, opens at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan,
November 25, 1839
– A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster.
November 27, 1839
– In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
Who Were Born On 1839?
January 11, 1839
– Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator and nationalist (d. 1903)
March 16, 1839
– John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (d. 1922)
July 8, 1839
– John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1937)
July 10, 1839
– Adolphus Busch, German-born brewer (d. 1913)
July 25, 1839
– Francis Garnier, French explorer (d. 1873)
August 30, 1839
– Gulstan Ropert, French Catholic prelate (d. 1903)
September 10, 1839
– Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher (d. 1914)
September 25, 1839
– Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (d. 1904)
October 30, 1839
– Alfred Sisley, Anglo-French artist (d. 1899)
December 23, 1839
– János Murkovics, Slovene writer and teacher in Hungary (d. 1917)