1839

Events

   * January 9 - The French Academy of Science announces the Daguerreotype
     photography process.
   * January 19 - British East India Company captures Aden
   * January 20 - In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats a Peruvian and
     Bolivian alliance.
   * February 24 - William Otis receives a patent for the steam shovel.
   * March 23 - First recorded use of "OK" oll korrect (Boston Morning
     Post).
   * March 26 - The first Henley Royal Regatta is held
   * Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mahmud II (1808-1839) to
     Abd-ul-Mejid (1839-1861)
   * In the United States, the first state law permitting women to own
     property is passed in Jackson, Mississippi.
   * The first parallax measurement of the distance to Alpha Centauri is
     published by Thomas Henderson.

Births

   * January 19 - Paul CŽzanne, painter (+ 1906)
   * February 11 - Josiah Willard Gibbs theoretical physicist/chemist.
   * February 22 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher
     (+ 1906)
   * March 21 - Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer
   * July 8 - John Davison Rockefeller, American industrialist and
     philanthropist.

Deaths

   * May 17 - Archibald Alison, Scottish author
   * August 28 - William Smith, geologist/cartographer.

Heads of states

   * Ottoman Empire - Mahmud II Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808-1839)
   * Prussia - Frederick William III King of Prussia (1797-1840)

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