1839

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Centuries:	18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades:	1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s
Years:	1836 1837 1838 - 1839 - 1840 1841 1842

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Events of 1839

April - Sultan Mahmud II of Turkey declares death.
April 9 - The world's first commercial electric telegraph line comes into operation alongside the Great Western Railway line from Paddington station to West Drayton.
April 19 - The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.
June 22 - Louis Daguerre receives patent for his camera (commercially available by September at the price of 400 Francs)

July 1 - Slave rebellion of Amistad
July 1 - Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mahmud II (1808-1839) to Abd-ul-Mejid (1839-1861).
July 23 - British forces capture the fortress city of Ghazni, Afghanistan in the Battle of Ghazni during the First Anglo-Afghan War
August 8 - The Beta Theta Pi fraternity was founded in Oxford, Ohio
August 19 - French government gives Louis Daguerre a pension and gives the daguerreotype "for the whole world"
August 23 - British forces seized Hong Kong as a base, as it prepared to wage war against Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict would become known as the First Opium War.
September 9 - In the Great Fire of Mobile, Alabama hundreds of buildings are burned.

October 3 - In the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies a railway between Napoli and Portici (7.4km length) is inaugurated by H.M. the King Ferdinand II of Bourbon. It is the first railway in the Italian peninsula.
October 15 - Abd al-Kader declares a jihad against the French.
November 4 - The Newport Rising was the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
November 11 - The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
November 17 - Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio opens in Milan.
November 25 - A disastrous cyclone slams India with terrible winds and a giant 40 foot storm surge, wiping out the port city of Coringa. 300,000 people die.
November 27 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.

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.
Michael Faraday publishes "Experimental Researches in Electricity" clarifying the true nature of electricity.
Excavation on Copan begins.
Half of the Limburg province of Belgium was added to the Netherlands, since 1839 there is a Belgian Limburg and Dutch Limburg.
Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia is founded.
Charles Goodyear vulcanizes rubber.