1839

1839 (MDCCCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1839th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 839th year of the 2nd millennium, the 39th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1830s decade. As of the start of 1839, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1800s  1810s  1820s  – 1830s –  1840s  1850s  1860s
Years:	1836 1837 1838 – 1839 – 1840 1841 1842

1839 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1839 MDCCCXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2592
Armenian calendar	1288 ԹՎ ՌՄՁԸ
Assyrian calendar	6589
Balinese saka calendar	1760–1761
Bengali calendar	1246
Berber calendar	2789
British Regnal year	2 Vict. 1 – 3 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2383
Burmese calendar	1201
Byzantine calendar	7347–7348
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4535 or 4475     — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4536 or 4476
Coptic calendar	1555–1556
Discordian calendar	3005
Ethiopian calendar	1831–1832
Hebrew calendar	5599–5600
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1895–1896
- Shaka Samvat	1760–1761
- Kali Yuga	4939–4940
Holocene calendar	11839
Igbo calendar	839–840
Iranian calendar	1217–1218
Islamic calendar	1254–1255
Japanese calendar	Tenpō 10 (天保１０年)
Javanese calendar	1766–1767
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4172
Minguo calendar	73 before ROC 民前73年
Nanakshahi calendar	371
Thai solar calendar	2381–2382
Tibetan calendar	阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) 1965 or 1584 or 812     — to — 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 1966 or 1585 or 813

Events

• January 19 – British East India Company captures Aden
• January 20 – In the Battle of Yungay, Peruvian and Bolivian soldiers lose to Chilean soldiers.
• February 24 – William Otis patents for the steam shovel
• March 23 – First known use of "OK" oll korrect in the Boston Morning Post
• March 26 – The first Henley Royal Regatta
• April 9 – The world's first commercial electric telegraph line is built, next to the Great Western Railway line from Paddington station to West Drayton.
• April 19 – The Treaty of London makes the kingdom of Belgium
• June 22 – Louis Daguerre receives patent for his Daguerrotype camera. By September a company sells copies of the camera for 400 French Francs.
• July 1 – Slaves fight their masters on the Amistad
• November 11 – The Virginia Military Institute starts in Lexington, Virginia, USA
• November 17 – Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio opens in Milan.

Undated

• Abd-ul-Mejid becomes emperor of the Ottoman Empire.
• Mississippi passes the first state law in the U.S. letting women own property.
• The first parallax measurement of the distance to Alpha Centauri is found by Thomas Henderson.
• Excavation on Copan begins
• Half of the Limburg province of Belgium was added to the Netherlands, making a Belgian Limburg and Dutch Limburg.
• Abd al-Kader makes a jihad against the French.

Births

• January 19 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (died 1906)
• February 11 – Josiah Willard Gibbs American physicist and chemist (died 1903)
• February 22 – Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (died 1906)
• March 9 – Phoebe Knapp, American hymnwriter (died 1908)
• March 21 – Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer (died 1881)
• April 12 – Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (died 1888)
• July 8 – John Davison Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist (died 1937)
• July 17 – Ephraim Shay, Inventor (died 1916, see Shay locomotive)
• December 5 – George Armstrong Custer, American cavalry officer (died 1876)

Deaths

• April 1 – Benjamin Pierce, U.S. politician (born 1757)
• April 2 – Hezekiah Niles, American editor and publisher (born 1777)
• April 11 – John Galt, Scottish novelist (born 1779)
• May 17 – Archibald Alison, Scottish writer (born 1757)
• August 10 – John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (born 1758)
• August 22 – Benjamin Lundy, American abolitionist (born 1789)
• August 28 – William Smith, English geologist and cartographer (born 1769)
• November 15 – William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (born 1754)
• December 3 – Frederick VI, King of Denmark, ex-King of Norway (born 1768)