1835 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1835?
- January 7, 1835 – HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
- January 8, 1835 – The United States national debt is 0 for the only time.
- January 30, 1835 – In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen.
- February 1, 1835 – Slavery is abolished in Mauritius.
- February 14, 1835 – The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.
- February 15, 1835 – The first constitutional law in modern Serbia is adopted.
- May 5, 1835 – In Belgium, the first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
- May 6, 1835 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
- June 2, 1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
- August 25, 1835 – The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax.
- August 30, 1835 – Melbourne, Australia is founded.
- September 15, 1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipielago.
- September 20, 1835 – Ragamuffin rebels capture Porto Alegre, then capital of the Brazilian imperial province of Rio Grande do Sul, triggering the start of ten-year-long Farroupilha Revolution.
- October 2, 1835 – The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
- October 3, 1835 – The Staedtler Company is founded in Nuremberg, Germany.
- October 28, 1835 – The United Tribes of New Zealand is established with the signature of the Declaration of Independence.
- November 24, 1835 – The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).
- December 9, 1835 – The Texian Army captures San Antonio, Texas.
- December 28, 1835 – Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the United States Army.
- December 29, 1835 – The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States.
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