1835
Events
July–September
July 14 – The universal Catholic Apostolic Church is organized, initially in the U.K.
July 25 – James Bowman Lindsay demonstrates a constant electric light at a public meeting in Dundee, Scotland .
July 28 – An assassination attempt against King Louis Philippe I of France is attempted by Giuseppe Marco Fieschi , who uses a home-made volley gun and kills 10 people. The King escapes with a minor wound.
July – The Bertelsmann company is founded by Carl Bertelsmann as a religious printer and publisher in Prussia.
August 25 – In the U.S., The New York Sun prints the first of six installments of the Great Moon Hoax .
August 28 – St. Vincent's Ecclesiastical Seminary, a predecessor of Castleknock College , is founded by the Vincentian community in Dublin , Ireland.
August 30 – European settlers, landing on the north banks of the Yarra River in Victoria, Australia, found the settlement of Melbourne .
August – H. Fox Talbot exposes the world's first known photographic negatives , at Lacock Abbey in England.
September 7 – Charles Darwin arrives at the Galápagos Islands , aboard HMS Beagle .
September 19 – William Lloyd Garrison publishes Angelina Grimké 's anti-slavery letter in The Liberator .
September 20 – The Ragamuffin War begins in Rio Grande do Sul , Brazil .
October–December
October 2 – The Texas Revolution – Battle of Gonzales : Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas , but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
October 3 – The Staedtler Company (pencil manufacturers) is founded by J. S. Staedtler in Nuremberg , Germany.
October 28
November 12 – Construction is completed on the Wilberforce Monument in Kingston Upon Hull .
November 16 – Halley's Comet reaches perihelion , its closest approach to the Sun.
November 27 – Two London men, James Pratt and John Smith , are hanged in front of Newgate Prison in London, after a conviction of buggery . They are the last to suffer capital punishment for homosexual acts in England.
December 5 – Start of Moriori genocide , the killing and enslavement of the indigenous people of the Chatham Islands by 500 Māori people from New Zealand.
December 7
December 9 – The Army of the Republic of Texas captures San Antonio .
December 16 – The Great Fire of New York begins and lasts until the next day, destroying 530 buildings, including the New York Stock Exchange .
December 20 – The Texas Declaration of Independence is signed by American residents rebelling against Mexico at Goliad, Texas .
December 21 – The Raleigh and Gaston Railroad is chartered in Raleigh, North Carolina .
December 28 — The Second Seminole War , led by Seminole Chief Osceola breaks out in the U.S. state of Florida.
December 29 – The Treaty of New Echota is signed between the United States Government and representatives of the Cherokee Nation .
Date unknown
The British East India Company negotiates a lease of the Darjeeling area west of the Mahananda River , from the Kingdom of Sikkim .
The British Geological Survey is founded, as the world's first national geological survey .
Civil war erupts in Uruguay , between supporters of the Blanco and Colorado parties.
The Cachar Levy , forerunner of the Assam Rifles , is founded in India.
The first Bulgarian -language school opens in the Ottoman Empire .
The French word for their language changes to français , from françois .
Fort Cass is established, the military headquarters and site of the largest internment camps during the 1838 Trail of Tears .
Charles-Louis Havas creates Havas , the first news agency in the world (which later spawns Agence France-Presse ).
English becomes the official language of India.
Juan Manuel de Rosas becomes Caudillo of Argentina .
Edward Strutt Abdy publishes his Journal of a Residence and Tour in the United States of North America: From April, 1833, to October 1834 .
David Strauss begins publication of Das Leben Jessu, kritisch bearbeitet ("The life of Jesus, critically examined") in Tübingen .
The first Egyptian Museum in Cairo opened.
Births
January–June
Leopold II of Belgium
Pope Pius X
January 14 – Emmy Rappe , Swedish nurse pioneer (d. 1896 )
February 13 – Mirza Ghulam Ahmad , founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (d. 1908 )
February 15
February 18 – César Cui , Lithuanian composer (d. 1918 )
February 22 – Jeannette Walworth , American novelist, journalist (d. 1918 )
March 12
March 14 – Giovanni Schiaparelli , Italian astronomer (d. 1910 )
March 15 – Eduard Strauss , Austrian composer (d. 1916 )
March 21 – Maria Magdalena Mathsdotter , Swedish Sami educator (d. 1873 )
March 24 – Josef Stefan , Slovenian physicist, mathematician, and poet (d. 1893 )
April 1 – James Fisk , American entrepreneur (d. 1872 )
April 4 – John Hughlings Jackson , English neurologist (d. 1911 )
April 9 – King Leopold II of Belgium (d. 1909 )
May 3 – Alfred Austin , English poet (d. 1913 )
May 18 – Charles N. Sims , American Methodist preacher, third chancellor of Syracuse University (d. 1908 )
May 21 – František Chvostek , Moravian physician (d. 1884 )
June 2 – Pope Pius X (d. 1914 )
June 6 – Ștefan Fălcoianu , Romanian general and politician (d. 1905 )
June 9 – Ramón Barros Luco , 15th President of Chile (d. 1919 )
June 10 – Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany , (d. 1908 )
June 12 – George Atzerodt , conspirator with John Wilkes Booth , assigned to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson (d. 1865 )
June 15 – Adah Isaacs Menken , American actress (d. 1868 )
June 23 – Fanny Eaton , Jamaican-born artists model and domestic worker (d. 1924 )
June 24 – Johannes Wislicenus , German chemist (d. 1902 )
June 26 – Thomas W. Knox , American author, journalist (d. 1896 )
July–December
Adolf von Baeyer
Empress Dowager Cixi
Mark Twain
Matilda Carse
July 6 – Sir George White , British field marshal (d. 1912 )
July 7 – Ernest Giles , Australian explorer (d. 1897 )
July 10 – Henryk Wieniawski , Polish composer (d. 1880 )
July 19 – Justo Rufino Barrios , 9th President of Guatemala (d. 1885 )
July 27 – Giosuè Carducci , Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907 )
July 30 – Edmund Francis Dunne , American politician, jurist, and Catholic orator (d. 1904 )
July 31 – Henri Brisson , 2-time prime minister of France (d. 1912 )
August 2 – Elisha Gray , American inventor, businessman (d. 1901 )
August 6 – Hjalmar Kiærskou , Danish botanist (d. 1900 )
August 19 – Tom Wills , Australian cricketer, pioneer of Australian rules football (d. 1880 )
August 27 – Thomas Burberry , English businessman, inventor (d. 1926 )
September 1 – Raphael Kalinowski , Polish Discalced Carmelite friar, saint (d. 1907 )
October 7 – Felix Draeseke , German composer (d. 1913 )
October 9 – Camille Saint-Saëns , French composer (d. 1921 )
October 16 – William Rufus Shafter , American general (d. 1906 )
October 23 – Adlai Stevenson I , American lawyer and politician, 23rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1914 )
October 31 – Adolf von Baeyer , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917 )
November 6 – Cesare Lombroso , Italian criminologist (d. 1909 )
November 17 – Andrew L. Harris , American Civil War hero, Governor of Ohio (d. 1915 )
November 19 – Matilda Carse , Irish-born American businesswoman, social reformer (d. 1917 )
November 21 – Rose Eytinge , American actress (d. 1911 )
November 25
November 29 – Empress Dowager Cixi of China (d. 1908 )
November 30 – Mark Twain , American author, humorist (d. 1910 )
December 4 – Samuel Butler , English writer (d. 1902 )
December 6 – Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig , German chemist (d. 1910 )
December 17 – Alexander Emanuel Agassiz , American scientist (d. 1910)
December 18 – Lyman Abbott , American clergyman, author (d. 1922 )
December 28 – Sir Archibald Geikie , Scottish geologist (d. 1924 )
Deaths
January–June
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Saint Magdalene of Canossa
January 1 – Mátyás Godina , Slovene Lutheran pastor, writer, and teacher (b. 1768 )
February 8 – Guillaume Dupuytren , French anatomist, military surgeon (b. 1777 )
February 15
March 2 – Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1768 )
March 18 – Christian Günther von Bernstorff , Danish, Prussian statesman, diplomat (b. 1769 )
March 28 – Auguste de Beauharnais , Prince consort of Queen Maria II of Portugal (b. 1810 )
March 30 – Richard Sharp , English hat-maker, banker, merchant, poet, critic, Member of Parliament, and conversationalist
April 1 – Józef Zeydlitz , Polish military leader (b. 1755 )
April 8 – Wilhelm von Humboldt , German linguist, philosopher (b. 1767 )
April 10 – Magdalene of Canossa , Italian Catholic religious professed, saint (b. 1774 )
April 21 – Samuel Slater , American industrialist (b. 1768 )
May 8 – Francisca Zubiaga y Bernales , first lady of Peru, controversial socialite (b. 1803 )
May 13 – John Nash , English architect (b. 1752 )
June 18 – William Cobbett , English journalist, author (b. 1763 )
June 24 – Andreas Vokos Miaoulis , Greek admiral (b. 1768 )
June 25 – Ebenezer Pemberton , American educator (b. 1746 )
July–December
July 6 – John Marshall , influential American Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1755 )
July 15 – Izabela Czartoryska , Polish magnate princess (b. 1746 )
July 28 – Édouard Mortier, Duke of Trévise , French marshal (b. 1768 )
August 18 – Friedrich Stromeyer , German chemist (born 1776)
September 23
November 14 – James Freeman , first American clergyman to call himself a Unitarian (b. 1759 )
November 20 – Joseph von Baader , German railway pioneer (b. 1763 )
November 29 – Princess Catharina of Württemberg , wife of Jérôme Bonaparte (b. 1783 )
December 17 – Pierre Louis Roederer , French politician, economist, and historian (b. 1754 )
December 22 – David Hosack , American physician and educator, attending doctor at the Hamilton-Burr duel (b. 1769 )
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