Page 2: Historical Events In 1838

Feb 25   On this day in history canadian militia routs American republican sympathizers on Fighting Island, in the Detroit River   

Feb 25   London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours in the year 1838.   

Feb 26   Rensselaer Van Rensselaer invades Pelee Island in Lake Erie with 500 American sympathizers of the Canadian rebels on this day in history.   

Feb 26   Wendelin Weissheimer, composer on this day in history.   

Feb 28   In the year 1838 robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Québec)   

Mar 01   In the year 1838 gabriele dell' Addolorata, [Francesco Possenti], Italian priest   

Mar 02   On this day in history david Duffle Wood, composer   

Mar 03   In the year 1838 george William Hill, US astronomer (calculated Moon's orbit)   

Mar 03   Rebellion at Pelee Island, Ontario Canada in the year 1838.   

Mar 04   Paul Lacome, composer on this day in history.   

Mar 06   On this day in history franz Grillparzer's "Weh dem, der Lugt," premieres in Vienna   

Mar 08   In the year 1838 uS mint in New Orleans begins operation (producing dimes)   

Mar 12   In the year 1838 william Perkin, inventor (1st artificial dye)   

Mar 15   On this day in history alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist (Stranger in Her Native Land)   

Mar 16   Nathaniel Bowditch, astronomer/navigation expert, dies at 64 on this day in history.   

Mar 18   In the year 1838 jan B Stobbaerts, Flemish painter   

Mar 22   Hendrik Fagel, Dutch/English baron, dies at 73 in the year 1838.   

Mar 24   Thomas Attwood, composer, dies at 72 in the year 1838.   

Mar 31   Leon Dierx, French poet on this day in history.   

Apr 03   Francesco Antommarchi, Napoleon's physician on St Helena, dies at 57 on this day in history.   

Apr 03   Leon Michel Gambetta, French attorney/premier (1881-82) in the year 1838.   

Apr 05   Alpheus Hyatt, US, invertebrate paleontologist in the year 1838.   

Apr 06   Jose B de Andrada e Silva, premier of Brazil (1822-23), dies at 74 on this day in history.   

Apr 08   Steamship "Great Western" maiden voyage (Bristol England to NYC) on this day in history.   

Apr 09   National Gallery re-opens in its new dedicated building in Trafalgar Square London on this day in history.   

Apr 09   National Galley opens in London on this day in history.   

Apr 09   Steamship "Great Western" maiden voyage (Bristol England to NYC) beginning of the end of the Age of Sail in the year 1838.   

Apr 11   Joseph Leopold Rockel, composer on this day in history.   

Apr 11   On this day in history pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull), murdered at 40   

Apr 12   In the year 1838 john Shaw Billings, US, librarian/army physician   

Apr 12   In the year 1838 rebel Col. Samuel Lount and Captain Peter Matthews publicly hanged for treason and sedition during the Rebellion of 1837 in Upper Canada   

Apr 16   Karel Bendl, composer on this day in history.   

Apr 17   On this day in history j Schopenhauer, writer, dies at 71   

Apr 18   On this day in history wilkes' expedition to South Pole sails   

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Jan 01   On this day in history birth of william Hugh Young, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901   

Jan 04   Charles Stratton, [General Tom Thumb] (famous short person) was born in the year 1838.   

Jan 05   Camille Jordan, French mathematician (d. 1922) was born in the year 1838.   

Jan 06   On this day in history birth of max Bruch, Koln (Cologne), Germany, composer   

Jan 16   In the year 1838 birth of franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)   

Feb 06   In the year 1838 birth of henry Irving, [John H Brodribb], Engld, knighted 1895/actor (Hamlet)   

Feb 06   In the year 1838 birth of yisrael Meir Kagan, Chofetz Chayim (d. 1933)   

Feb 12   On this day in history birth of charles Carroll Walcott, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1898   

Jan 13   Ferdinand Reis, composer, dies at 53 on this day in history.   

Jan 16   In the year 1838 aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [OS]   

Jan 20   In the year 1838 pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, composer, dies at 64   

Jan 23   In the year 1838 arnold A Buyskes, Dutch vice-admiral/colonial director, dies at 67   

Jan 28   On this day in history aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [NS]   

Jan 30   Osceola, chief of Seminole indians, dies in jail on this day in history.   

Feb 01   Abraham de Veer, Dutch gov-gen of Suriname (1822-28), dies at 71 on this day in history.   

Feb 05   In the year 1838 philippe Libon, composer, dies at 62