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Special Events for the Year 1839 - back to GREGSITE

Born :10/30/1839Alfred Sisley, French impressionist painter
Born :11/18/1839August A Kundt, German physicist (sound vibration, test of Kundt)
Born :04/22/1839August W Eichler, German botanist
Born :04/20/1839Carol I, King of Romania (1881-1914)
Born :05/01/1839Chardonnet, inventor (rayon)
Born :04/26/1839Cyrus Hamblin, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
Born :03/10/1839Dudley Buck, Hartford, Ct, organist/church composer
Born :08/27/1839Emory Upton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1881
Born :01/11/1839Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rico, patriot/scholar
Born :03/09/1839Felix Huston Robertson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1928
Born :09/28/1839Frances Willard, founded Women's Christian Temperance Union
Born :03/18/1839Francis Fessenden, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
Born :10/21/1839Georg von Siemens, founder (Deutsche Bank)
Born :12/05/1839George Armstrong Custer, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1876
Born :06/24/1839Gustavus Franklin Swift, founded Swift & Co
Born :10/02/1839Hans Thoma, painter
Born :04/18/1839Henry Clarence Kendall, poet
Born :09/02/1839Henry George, land reformer/writer (Progress & Poverty)
Born :09/10/1839Isaac Kauffman Funk, US, publisher (Funk & Wagnalls)
Born :02/01/1839James A Herne, [J Aherne], US playwright (Hearts of Oak)
Born :06/21/1839Joaquim M Machado de Assic, Brazil, writer (Epitaph of a small winner)
Born :07/08/1839John D Rockefeller, US capitalist; founded Standard Oil
Born :06/21/1839John Decatur Barry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1867
Born :01/09/1839John Knowles Paine, Portland, Maine, composer
Born :03/17/1839Josef Rheinberger, Vaduz Liechtenstein, opera composer (Munich Conser)
Born :02/11/1839Josiah Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist/chemist
Born :03/21/1839Modest Mussorgsky, composer (Boris Gudunov, Night on Bald Mt) [NS]
Born :03/09/1839Modest P Moessorgsky, Russian composer (Boris Gudunov) [OS]
Born :08/08/1839Nelson Appleton Miles, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1925
Born :02/07/1839Nicolaas G Pierson, economist/Suriname premier (1897-1901)
Born :03/31/1839Nikolay Przhevalsky, naturalist, explorer of east central Asia (OS)
Born :01/19/1839Paul C‚zanne, France, impressionist painter (Bathers)
Born :07/16/1839Philipus J Hoedemaker, theologist
Born :03/16/1839Ren‚ F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, France, poet, 1st Nobel winner (1901)
Born :04/05/1839Robert Smalls, Beaufort SC, black congressman 1875-87 (Rep-SC)
Born :01/25/1839Seldon Connor, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1917
Born :08/17/1839Th˜s [Matth˜s] Maris, painter/etcher
Born :08/04/1839Walter Pater, London England, writer (Plato & Platoism)
Born :03/25/1839William Bell Wait, US, educated the blind
Born :06/18/1839William Henry Seward Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1920
Born :09/25/1839[Wilhel]Mina JPR Kruseman, writer/feminist
Died :05/18/1839Carolina [Maria A] Bonaparte (countess Lipona), dies at 57
Died :09/17/1839Ethel Mary Dell, [Mrs G T Savage], romantic novelist, dies
Died :12/03/1839Frederik VI, king of Denmark (1808-39)/Norway (1803-14), dies
Died :11/06/1839Hayim Rapoport, Rabbi of Ostrowiec/author (Maxim Chayyim), dies
Died :05/13/1839Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, found Ashkenazic community (1815), dies
Died :06/30/1839Johan O Wallin, Swedish poet/archbishop (Dead Angel), dies
Died :05/13/1839Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator, dies
Died :07/01/1839Mahmud II, sultan of Turkey (1808-39), dies at 53
Died :06/10/1839Nathaniel Pryor, sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies
Died :09/10/1839Pieter Font˜n, painter, dies
Died :07/15/1839Winthrop Mackworth Praed, politician/poet, dies
Special :09/11/18391st Canadian track & field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds)
Special :11/13/18391st US anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY
Special :06/12/18391st baseball game played in America
Special :12/18/18391st celestial photograph (of Moon) made in US, John Draper, NYC
Special :03/23/18391st known use of term OK [oll korrect] (Boston)
Special :11/03/18391st opium war-2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks
Special :09/20/18391st railroad in Netherland opens
Special :07/03/18391st state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students
Special :01/06/18392 day storm off Irish & English coast immortalized as "The Big Wind"
Special :01/19/1839Aden conquered by British East India Company
Special :11/27/1839American Statistical Association organizes in Boston
Special :01/12/1839Anthracite coal 1st used to smelt iron, Mauch Chunk, Penn
Special :02/12/1839Boundary dispute between Maine & New Brunswick leads to Aroostook
Special :08/23/1839British take Hong Kong
Special :07/27/1839Chartist riots break out in Birmingham England
Special :02/20/1839Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia
Special :01/09/1839Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science
Special :02/18/1839Detroit Boat Club forms (still exists today)
Special :01/11/1839Earthquake at Martinique destroys half of Port Royal-700 die
Special :04/17/1839Guatemala forms republic
Special :02/07/1839Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president"
Special :04/18/1839Henry Kendall, New South Wales Australia, poet (Bell Birds)
Special :09/09/1839John Herschel takes 1st glass plate photograph
Special :02/25/1839Seminoles & black allies shipped from Tampa Bay Florida, to West
Special :07/30/1839Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad
Special :02/24/1839Steam shovel patented by William Otis, Philadelphia
Special :01/09/1839Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri)

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