Page 5: Historical Events In 1838

Oct 19   Henry Fagel, baron/court clerk of States-General/diplomat, dies at 73   

Oct 22   Carl Fuchs, composer   

Oct 25   Georges Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold Bizet, France, composer (Carmen)   

Oct 25   Georges Bizet, French composer is born.   

Oct 27   Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.   

Nov 03   The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce   

Nov 05   Honduras declares independence of Central American Federation.   

Nov 06   John Grant Mitchell, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1894   

Nov 08   Victor Hugo's "Ruy Blas," premieres in Paris.   

Nov 11   Emma Wedgwood accepts Charles Darwins marriage proposal   

Nov 13   Joseph F Smith, 6th pres of Mormon church.   

Nov 14   August Senoa, Croatian author (Zlatarevo zlato).   

Nov 22   Jose Augusto da Ferreira Veiga, Viscount d' Arneiro, composer   

Nov 24   Karl Ludwig Hellwig, composer, dies at 65   

Nov 29   Aeneas Mackay, Baron/Dutch minister of interior/Colonies   

Nov 30   Mexico declares war on France   

Dec 01   Van Diemen's Land gets its inaugural library to boost morale.   

Dec 03   Cleveland Abbe, US, meteorologist (Father of Weather Bureau).   

Dec 04   Melesio Morales, composer.   

Dec 11   Emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG)   

Dec 12   Sherburne W Burnham, US, astronomer (binary stars).   

Dec 13   Marie-Alexis Castillon de Saint-Victor, composer.   

Dec 16   Boers beat Zulu chieftain Dingaan in South Africa   

Dec 16   The Boers defeat the Zulus in South Africa.   

Dec 17   Berthold Tours, composer.   

Dec 31   Emile Loubet, premier/president of France (1892, 1899-1906).   

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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 on this day in history.   

Jan 06   In the year 1838 birth of max Bruch, Koln (Cologne), Germany, composer   

Jan 16   On this day in history birth of franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)   

Feb 06   Henry Irving, [John H Brodribb], Engld, knighted 1895/actor (Hamlet) was born in the year 1838.   

Feb 06   On this day in history birth of yisrael Meir Kagan, Chofetz Chayim (d. 1933)   

Feb 12   Charles Carroll Walcott, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1898 was born on this day in history.   

Jan 13   In the year 1838 ferdinand Reis, composer, dies at 53   

Jan 16   On this day in history 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   Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [NS] on this day in history.   

Jan 30   Osceola, chief of Seminole indians, dies in jail in the year 1838.   

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