* 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 ).

Smith's apparent 1838 identification as " Nephi " was left unchanged when the 1838 history was published in 1842 in Times and Seasons, which Smith edited himself, and in Millennial Star.

The Times is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, including The Times of India ( 1838 ), The Straits Times ( 1845 ), The New York Times ( 1851 ), The Irish Times ( 1859 ), the Los Angeles Times ( 1881 ), The Seattle Times ( 1891 ), The Daily Times ( Malawi ) ( 1900 ), The Canberra Times ( 1926 ), The Times ( Malta ) ( 1935 ) and The Times of Israel ( Israel ) ( 2012 ).

The Times Of India was founded on 3 November 1838 as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce In Bombay, during the British Raj.

* Queen Elizabeth and her Times, a Series of Original Letters ( 1838, 2 vols.

In about 1837 Pitman discontinued the use of all alcoholic beverages, and in about 1838 he became a vegetarian – both lifelong practices to which, in a famous letter to The Times ( London ), he attributed his lifelong excellent health and his ability to work long hours.

The Times of India was founded in 1838 as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce by Bennett, Coleman and Company, a colonial enterprise now owned by an Indian conglomerate.

The Oxford English Dictionary traced the earliest use of " pikey " to The Times in August 1838, which referred to strangers who had come to the Isle of Sheppey as " pikey-men ".

1838: The first edition appears on 3 November 1838, known as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.

* Brown, John P. Old Frontiers: The Story of the Cherokee Indians from Earliest Times to the Date of Their Removal to the West, 1838, ( Kingsport: Southern Publishers, 1938 ).

To justify his plan, the Governor-General of India Lord Auckland issued the Simla Manifesto in October 1838, setting forth the necessary reasons for British intervention in Afghanistan.

During the First Anglo-Afghan War, British India invaded Afghanistan in 1838 but withdraw in 1842.

The 1838 mission offered a treaty providing for extradition of Bhutanese officials responsible for incursions into Assam, free and unrestricted commerce between India and Bhutan, and settlement of Bhutan's debt to the British.

Cameron was educated in France, but returned to India, and in 1838 married Charles Hay Cameron, a jurist and member of the Law Commission stationed in Calcutta, who was twenty years her senior.

He served on the Supreme Council of India between 1834 and 1838.

During the nineteenth century, Afghanistan was invaded twice from British India, during the First Anglo-Afghan War of 1838 – 1842 and again in the Second Anglo-Afghan War of 1878 – 1880, both times with the intention of limiting Russian influence in the country and quelling local tribal leaders.

James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie KT, PC ( 22 April 1812 – 19 December 1860 ), styled Lord Ramsay until 1838 and known as The Earl of Dalhousie between 1838 and 1849, was a Scottish statesman, and a colonial administrator in British India.

James Andrew Broun-Ramsay was the third and youngest son of George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie ( 1770 – 1838 ), one of Wellington's generals, who, after being Governor General of Canada, became Commander-in-Chief in India, and of his wife Christina née Broun of Colstoun, Haddingtonshire ( East Lothian ).

In 1838, the 63rd deployed to Burma, a deployment that proved uneventful, the returning to India in 1842.

British fears of a Russian invasion of India took one step closer to becoming a reality when negotiations between the Afghans and Russians broke down in 1838.

The East India Company, as conveyed in its letter dated 18 July 1838, happily endorsed the proposal for a medical college.

These were rare Tibetan works based on old Sanskrit writings ( brought originally from the area of the Buddha's personal teachings in Magadha or Bihar in India ) and he was able to offer them to The Asiatic Society and the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 1838.

* T. p. leucogaster ( Swainson, 1838 ) breeds in the western Tian Shan, in Afghanistan, in the north of Pakistan, in northwestern and central India, in Nepal ’ s western and central regions ; populations occurring in the east of Pakistan and in the south of India migrate towards the foothills of the Himalayas in spring for breeding.

In Guyana the holiday is celebrated on May 5 commemorating the first arrival of indentured servants from India to the country, on May 5, 1838.

It was built in 1838 to honour Benoît de Boigne's feats when he was in India.

Colonel Charles Swinhoe ( 27 August 1838, Calcutta-2 December 1923 ) was an English naturalist and lepidopterist, who served in the British Army in India.

From 1838 to 1917, over half a million Indians from the former British Raj or British India, were taken to thirteen mainland and island nations in the Caribbean as Indentured workers to address the demand for sugar cane plantation labour following the abolition of slavery.

The first ships carrying indentured labourers for sugarcane plantations left India in 1838 for the Caribbean region.

He earned four good conduct badges, but he won and lost the first badge five times between 1838 and 1850 ( i. e. covering his entire service in India and more ).