1838 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1838?
- January 8, 1838 – Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
- January 11, 1838 – Samuel Morse first successfully tests the electrical telegraph.
- January 26, 1838 – Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
- February 17, 1838 – Weenen massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal are killed by Zulus.
- February 28, 1838 – Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Quebec)
- April 30, 1838 – Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.
- June 10, 1838 – Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
- June 28, 1838 – Coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
- July 4, 1838 – The Iowa Territory is organized.
- July 15, 1838 – Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
- August 1, 1838 – Non-labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
- August 18, 1838 – The Wilkes Expedition, which would explore the Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighs anchor at Hampton Roads in 1838
- September 3, 1838 – Future abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery.
- September 18, 1838 – The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
- October 27, 1838 – Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.
- November 3, 1838 – The Times of India, the world’s largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
- November 5, 1838 – The Federal Republic of Central America begins to disintegrate when Nicaragua separates from the Federation.
- December 16, 1838 – Battle of Blood River: Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius and Sarel Cilliers defeat Zulu impis, led by Dambuza (Nzobo) and Ndlela kaSompisi in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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