* 1839 – Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer ( d. 1888 )

* 1839 – Benjamin Pierce, American politician ( b. 1757 )

* 1839 – Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist ( b. 1763 )

* 1839 – Nelson Miles, American general ( d. 1925 )

* 1839 – The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift " free to the world ".

* 1754 – William Murdoch, Scottish engineer and inventor, created gas lighting ( d. 1839 )

* 1839 – The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China.

* 1839 – Gulstan Ropert, French prelate ( d. 1903 )

On her return to Haworth, she met William Weightman ( 1814 – 1842 ), her father's new curate, who started work in the parish in August 1839.

* 1839 – The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.

* 1839 – Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist ( d. 1896 )

* 1839 – Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, English politician ( b. 1758 )

* 1839 – Walter Pater, English essayist and critic ( d. 1894 )

He married Helen Leech ( 1839 – 1932 ), the daughter of another wealthy cotton merchant and shipbuilder from Stalybridge, at Gee Cross on 8 August 1863.

#* Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte ( 1802 – 1839 )

#*** Léonie Stéphanie Elise Bonaparte ( 1833 – 1839 )

#*** Napoléon Charles Grégoire Jacques Philippe Bonaparte ( 1839 – 1899 )

# Maria Annunziata Caroline Bonaparte ( 1782 – 1839 ) married Joachim Murat, Marshal of France

Portales brought the military under civilian control by rewarding loyal generals, cashiering troublemakers, and promoting a victorious war against the Peru-Bolivia Confederation ( 1836 – 1839 ).

September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914 ) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist, sometimes known as " the father of pragmatism ".

A census was taken in the Ottoman Empire 1831-38 by Sultan Mahmud II ( 1808 – 1839 ) as a part of the reform movement Tanzimat.

** William Erasmus Darwin ( 1839 – 1914 ), eldest son of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

It was Rochet d ' Hericourt's exploration into Shoa ( 1839 – 42 ) that marked the beginning of French interest in the Djiboutian coast of the Red Sea.

* 1839 – George Armstrong Custer, American general ( d. 1876 )

* Lady Susan Charlotte Catherine Pelham-Clinton ( 7 April 1839 – 6 September 1875 ), who married Lord Adolphus Vane-Tempest ( 2 July 1825 – 11 June 1864 ) on 23 April 1860.

* Adolphus Busch, American businessman and co-founder of Anheuser-Busch ( 1839 – 1913 )

Colonel Adolphus Busch ( 10 July 1839 – 10 October 1913 ) was the German-born co-founder of Anheuser-Busch with his father-in-law, Eberhard Anheuser.

* Adolphus Busch ( 1839 – 1913 ), founder of Anheuser-Busch

Busch was born in 1839 in Kastel, then a district of Mainz in the Grand Duchy of Hesse.

The German company Jordan & Timaeus sold the first known chocolate bar made from cocoa, sugar and goat's milk in 1839.

* 1839 – Eduard Hitzig, German neurologist and neuropsychiatrist ( d. 1907 )

The term feudalism is recent, first appearing in French in 1823, Italian in 1827, English in 1839, and in German in the second half of the nineteenth century.

A terminus of the first German long distance railway to Dresden ( the capital of Saxony ) in 1839, Leipzig became a hub of Central European railway traffic, with Leipzig Central Station the largest terminal station by area in Europe.

* Duchy of Limburg ( 1839 – 1867 ), a part of the German Confederation

The lyrics written in 1841 describe a then – disunited Germany with the river as its western boundary, where King William I of the Netherlands had joined the German Confederation with his Duchy of Limburg in 1839.

* 1839 – August Kundt, German physicist ( d. 1894 )

* 1839 – Christian Wilberg, German painter ( d. 1882 )

The state was formed by secession from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1830, whose neutrality and integrity was protected by the Treaty of London 1839 ; thus it served as a buffer state between the European powers France, Prussia ( after 1871 the German Empire ), the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of the Netherlands until World War I. Belgium is divided between the Flemings in the north and the French-speaking or the German-speaking population in the south.

* 1763 – Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist ( d. 1839 )

Motley in 1839 wrote a novel, Morton's Hope, or the Memoirs of a Provincial about life in a German university in which he described Bismarck as a reckless and dashing eccentric, but also as an extremely gifted and charming young man.

* June 3 – Christian Wilberg, German painter ( b. 1839 )

In 1839 the population was 80 % Germans and German schools and churches were established.

Belgium's neutrality was guaranteed by Britain under the 1839 Treaty of London ; the invasion gave the British the excuse to enter the war, although in reality their aim was to limit German naval expansion.

The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Duchy of Limburg ( 1839 – 1867 ) | Limburg in 18391, 2 and 3 United Kingdom of the Netherlands ( until 1830 ) 1 and 2 Netherlands | Kingdom of the Netherlands ( after 1830 ) 2 Duchy of Limburg ( 1839 – 1867 ) ( in the German Confederacy after 1839 as compensation for Waals-Luxemburg ) 3 and 4 Belgium | Kingdom of Belgium ( after 1830 ) 4 and 5 Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( borders until 1830 ) 4 Luxembourg ( province ) | Province of Luxembourg ( Waals-Luxemburg, to Belgium in 1839 ) 5 Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( German Luxemburg ; borders after 1839 ) In blue, the borders of the German Confederation.