* 1838 – Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.

* 1838 – Non-laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.

* 1770 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician ( d. 1838 )

* 1790 – Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet and politician ( d. 1838 )

* 1838 – The Wilkes Expedition, which would explore the Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighs anchor at Hampton Roads in 1838

A close relationship developed between Hasan Ali Shah and the British, which coincided with the final years of the First Anglo-Afghan War ( 1838 – 1842 ).

* 1838 – Léon Gambetta, French statesman ( d. 1882 )

* 1838 – Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French scientist ( d. 1912 )

* 1915 – John Labatt, Canadian businessman and brewer ( b. 1838 )

* 1838 – John Muir, Scottish-American environmentalist ( d. 1914 )

* Aleksandra von Engelhardt ( 1754 – 1838 ), Russian lady-in-waiting

The construction commenced around the courtyard with the East Wing ( The King's Library ) in 1823 – 1828, followed by the North Wing in 1833 – 1838, which originally housed among other galleries a reading room, now the Wellcome Gallery.

* Henry Sidgwick ( 1838 – 1900 )

* Tales of Angria ( written 1838 – 1839-a collection of childhood and young adult writings including five short novels )

* 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.

* 1838 – John Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer ( d. 1915 )

* 1806 – Jean-Olivier Chénier, Canadian physician and patriote ( d. 1838 )

* 1838 – Émile Loubet, 7th President of France ( d. 1929 )

* 1838 – Edwin Abbott Abbott, English schoolmaster, theologian, and author ( d. 1926 )

* 1881 – August Senoa, Croatian writer ( b. 1838 )

In mathematical logic, there are two quantifiers, " some " and " all ", though as Brentano ( 1838 – 1917 ) pointed out, we can make do with just one quantifier and negation.

* The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ( 1838 ) – Poe's only complete novel

Edwin Abbott Abbott ( 20 December 1838 – 12 October 1926 ), English schoolmaster and theologian, is best known as the author of the satirical novella Flatland ( 1884 ).

* March 8 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German inventor ( b. 1838 )

* Ferdinand von Zeppelin ( 1838 – 1917 ), German airship mogul

The next emperor Ferdinand I of Austria had himself crowned King of Lombardy and Venetia in Milan with the Iron Crown ( September 6, 1838 ), with the opportunity to extend various benefits to the city.

Image: Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix 043. jpg | Frédéric Chopin, 1838, the Louvre

By this mariage de Lesseps became the father of five sons: Charles Théodore de Lesseps ( 1838 – 1838 ), Charles Aimé de Lesseps ( 1840 – 1923 ), Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps ( 1842 – 1846 ), Ferdinand Victor de Lesseps ( 1847 – 1853 ) and Aimé Victor de Lesseps ( 1848 – 1896 ).

* Ferdinand Thieriot ( 1838 – 1919 ), composer

* Ferdinand I of Austria ( 1838 )

In 1838, as King consort Ferdinand II, he decided to acquire the old monastery, all of the surrounding lands, the nearby Castle of the Moors and a few other estates in the area.

* November 30 – Ferdinand Ries, composer and friend of Beethoven ( died 1838 )

In 1838 Bellagio received with all honours the Emperor Ferdinand I, the Archduke Rainer and the Minister Metternich, who reached here from Varenna on the Lario, the first steamboat on the lake, having been launched in 1826.

Ferdinand Zirkel ( May 20, 1838 – June 11, 1912 ) was a German geologist and petrographer.

A later lease to the Hudson's Bay Company of the southeastern sector of what is now the Alaska Panhandle, as far north as 56 ° 30 ' N, followed in 1838 as part of a damages settlement due to treaty violations by the Company's governor, Baron Ferdinand von Wrangel, in 1833.

It was named " Proliv Vrangelya " ( English: Wrangell Strait ) in 1838 by G. Lindenberg after Admiral Baron Ferdinand Petrovich von Wrangell.

In the summer of 1838 he went to Saint Petersburg and negotiated with Ferdinand von Wrangel of the Russian-America Company.

Ferdinand Ries ( b. Bonn, baptised 28 November 1784, d. Frankfurt am Main, 13 January 1838 ) was a German composer.

Though Ferdinand von Wrangel started a four year long expedition in 1820 to find possible land North of cape Shelagskiy and couldn ’ t find any land he noted a Chucki chief saying: “ One might in a clear summer ’ s day descry snow-covered mountains at a great distance to the North .” Heinrich Berghaus, Petermann ’ s teacher, included this information in the right hand corner on his isotherm map of 1838 for his Physikalische Atlas with the text ‘ possible polar land ’ Polar-Land.

The famous names in the ornithology of the Indian subcontinent during this era include Andrew Leith Adams ( 1827 – 1882 ), Edward Blyth ( 1810 – 1873 ), Edward Arthur Butler ( 1843 – 1916 ), Douglas Dewar ( 1875 – 1957 ), N. F. Frome ( 1899 – 1982 ), Hugh Whistler ( 1889 – 1943 ), H. H. Godwin-Austen ( 1834 – 1923 ), Col. W. H. Sykes ( 1790 – 1872 ), C. M. Inglis ( 1870 – 1954 ), Frank Ludlow ( 1885 – 1972 ), E. C. Stuart Baker ( 1864 – 1944 ), Henry Edwin Barnes ( 1848 – 1896 ), F. N. Betts ( 1906 – 1973 ), H. R. Baker, W. E. Brooks ( 1828 – 1899 ), Margaret Cockburn ( 1829 – 1928 ), James A. Murray, E. W. Oates ( 1845 – 1911 ), Ferdinand Stoliczka ( 1838 – 1874 ), Valentine Ball ( 1843 – 1894 ), W. T. Blanford ( 1832 – 1905 ), J. K. Stanford ( 1892 – 1971 ), Charles Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1923 ), Robert Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1877 ), C. H. T. Marshall ( 1841 – 1927 ), G. F. L. Marshall ( 1843 – 1934 ), R. S. P. Bates, James Franklin ( 1783 – 1834 ), Satya Churn Law, Arthur Edward Osmaston ( 1885 – 1961 ), Bertram Beresford Osmaston ( 1868 – 1961 ), Wardlaw Ramsay ( 1852 – 1921 ) and Samuel Tickell ( 1811 – 1875 ).

File: Ferdinand_Stolička. jpg | Ferdinand Stoliczka ( 1838 – 1874 )

In 1838, ten years after Schubert's death, Robert Schumann visited Vienna and was shown the manuscript of the symphony at the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde by Ferdinand Schubert.

Confiscated by King Joseph ( 1808 ), re-established by Ferdinand VII at the Restoration ( 1814 ), the possessions of Calatrava were finally dissipated in the general secularization of 1838.

When emperor Ferdinand I was to be crowned King of Lombardy and Venetia in Milan on 6 September 1838, the question arose as to the choice of appropriate insignia and coronation vestments.