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Year 1839 (MDCCCXXXIX ) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar ).
Events of 1839
January - March
April - June
July - September
October - December
Undated
Ongoing events
Births
January - June
July - December
Deaths
January - June
July - December
July 8 - Fernando Sor , Spanish composer (b. 1778 )
July 15 - Winthrop Mackworth Praed , English politician and poet (b. 1802 )
August 10 - John St Aubyn , British fossil collector (b. 1758 )
August 22 - Benjamin Lundy , American abolitionist (b. 1789 )
August 28 - William Smith , English geologist and cartographer (b. 1769 )
October - William Light , British Army colonel and the first Surveyor-General of South Australia (b. 1786 )
November 15 - William Murdoch , Scottish inventor (b. 1754 )
December 3 - Frederick VI , King of Denmark, ex-King of Norway (b. 1768 )
December 15 - Ignaz Aurelius Fessler , court councillor and minister to Alexander I (b. 1756 )
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