1835

Year '1835' ('MDCCCXXXV') was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1835

January - March

April - June

July - September

October - December

Undated

Births

January - June

July - December

Deaths

January - June

July - December

Events of 1835

January - March

★ January 1 - Ole Pedersen Hoiland breaks into the Bank of Norway and steals 64.000 dollars.

★ January 7 - ''HMS Beagle'' anchors off the Chonos Archipelago, on voyage of 1831-1836 with Charles Darwin.

★ January 30 - Unsuccessful assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol - first assassination attempt against a President of the United States.

★ February 20 - Concepción, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake.

★ March 2 - Ferdinand becomes Emperor of Austria.

April - June

★ April 18 - Lord Melbourne succeeds Sir Robert Peel as British Prime Minister.

★ The Australian city of Melbourne is founded by John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner.

★ May 5 - In Belgium a railway is opened between Brussels and Mechelen. It is the first railway in continental Europe (see Rail transport in Belgium).

July - September

★ August 25 - In US, the ''New York Sun'' prints issue 1 of 6 for the Great Moon Hoax.

★ September 7 - Charles Darwin arrives at the Galapagos Islands aboard ''HMS Beagle''.

★ September 20 - Farroupilha's Revolution begins in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

October - December

★ October 2 - Texas Revolution begins: Battle of Gonzales - Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.

★ November 16 - Comet Halley reaches perihelion, its closest approach to the sun.

★ November 19 - A force of 500 Māori invade and enslave the peoples of the Chatham Islands.

★ December 1 - Hans Christian Andersen publishes first book of fairy tales.

★ December 7 - First German Railway opens between Nürnberg and Fürth, named "der Adler" (The Eagle) (see History of rail transport in Germany).

★ December 9 - The Army of the Republic of Texas captures San Antonio.

★ December 16-17 - The Great Fire of New York destroys 530 buildings, including the New York Stock Exchange.

★ December 20 - The first signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence at Goliad, Texas.

★ December 28 - USA: Second Seminole War breaks out.

Undated

★ The ''British Geological Survey'' is founded as the world's first national geological survey.

★ ''De revolutionibus orbium coelestium'', Copernicus' book on the motion of the Earth, is removed from the Index of Prohibited Books.

★ Civil war erupts in Uruguay between supporters of Blanco and Colorado parties.

★ ''Cachar Levy'', forerunner of 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.

Births

January - June

★ February 13 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (d. 1908)

★ February 15 - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek International Olympic Committee president (d. 1908)

★ February 18 - César Cui, Lithuanian composer (d. 1918)

★ March 4 - John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (d. 1911)

★ March 14 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (d. 1910)

★ March 15 - Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (d. 1916)

★ March 24 - Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist, mathematician, and poet (d. 1893)

★ April 9 - King Léopold II of Belgium (d. 1909)

★ May 3 - Alfred Austin, English poet (d. 1913)

★ May 21 - František Chvostek, Moravian physician (d. 1884)

★ June 2 - Pope Pius X (d. 1914)

July - December

★ July 7 - Ernest Giles, Australian explorer (d. 1897)

★ July 10 - Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (d. 1880)

★ July 27 - Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)

★ August 2 - Elisha Gray, American inventor and businessman (d. 1901)

★ October 7 - Felix Draeseke, German composer (d. 1913)

★ October 9 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)

★ October 23 - Adlai E. Stevenson, Vice President of the United States (d. 1914)

★ October 31 - Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917)

★ November 17 - Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (d. 1915)

★ November 19 - Rani Lakshmi Bai, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1858)

★ November 21 - Hetty Green, American businesswoman (d. 1916)

★ November 25 - Andrew Carnegie, American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1919)

★ November 29 - Empress Dowager Cixi of China (d. 1908)

★ November 30 - Mark Twain, American author and humorist (d. 1910)

★ December 4 - Samuel Butler, English writer (d. 1902)

★ December 18 - Lyman Abbott, American clergyman and author (d. 1922)
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Deaths

January - June

★ February 15 - Henry Hunt, British politician (b. 1773)

★ March 2 - Emperor Francis I of Austria (b. 1768)

★ March 18 - Christian Gunther von Bernstorff, Danish and Prussian statesman and diplomat (b. 1769)

★ April 8 - Wilhelm von Humboldt, German linguist and philosopher (b. 1767)

★ April 21 - Samuel Slater, American industrialist (b. 1768)

★ May 13 - John Nash, English architect (b. 1752)

★ June 18 - William Cobbett, English journalist and author (b. 1763)

July - December

★ July 6 - John Marshall, influential American chief justice (b. 1755)

★ July 28 - Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (b. 1768)

★ September 23 - Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (b. 1801)

★ December 13 - John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1760)
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