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

* 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 )

Benjamin Hobson ( 1816-1873 ), a medical missionary sent by the London Missionary Society in 1839, set up a highly successful Wai Ai Clinic ( 惠愛醫館 ) in Guangzhou, China.

* January 4 – Benjamin Lundy, American abolitionist ( d. 1839 )

* December 25 – Benjamin Pierce, American politician ( d. 1839 )

* Benjamin W. Lacy, ( 1839 – 1895 ), born in New Kent County, member of the Virginia House of Delegates and the Supreme Court of Virginia

Benjamin Thorne, who came here from Dutchess County, New York in 1839, became the third postmaster on December 3, 1845.

" Built between 1773 and 1839, the dwellings show the influence of architect Asher Benjamin.

After spending nearly six years in the office of his uncle, Benjamin Austen, he was tempted to leave England for Sri Lanka ( Ceylon ) by the prospect of obtaining an appointment in the Civil Service, and he started in 1839 with the intention of making an overland journey across Asia.

In 1837 he married Mary Benjamin ( died 1874 ), a sister of Park Benjamin, and in 1839 he published anonymously a novel entitled Morton's Hope, or the Memoirs of a Provincial about life in a German university, based on his own experiences.

Benjamin Hobson ( 1816-1873 ), a medical missionary sent by the London Missionary Society in 1839, set up a highly successful Wai Ai Clinic ( 惠愛醫館 ).

The Reverend Benjamin Waugh ( 20 February 1839 – 11 March 1908 ) was a Victorian social reformer and campaigner who founded the UK charity, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ( NSPCC ) in the late 19th century, and also wrote various hymns.

Benjamin Lundy ( January 4, 1789 – August 22, 1839 ) was an American Quaker abolitionist from New Jersey who established several anti-slavery newspapers and worked for many others.

* Reverend Benjamin Waugh ( 20 February 1839 – 11 March 1908 ) the founder of the NSPCC is also commemorated by a plaque on a what is now the Lloyds TSB in Settle town square.

Dagron's microfilm patent was additionally based on British scientist John Benjamin Dancer, who created microfilm in 1839.

* Morris, Benjamin Franklin, " The life of Thomas Morris: pioneer and long a legislator of Ohio, and U. S. senator from 1833 to 1839 " ( Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Overend, 1856 ).

About the year 1839 Messers John and Benjamin Green published a scheme for a high level bridge.

Benjamin Wright Raymond ( June 15, 1801April 6, 1883 ) was an American politician who twice served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois ( 1839 – 1840, 1842 – 1843 ) for the Whig Party.

He ran in Chicago's third mayoral election ( 1839 ), losing to Benjamin Wright Raymond, 353-212.

Benjamin Hall, father of bushranger Ben Hall had a small farm in a valley near Murrurundi in 1839.

Benjamin Pierce ( December 25, 1757 – April 1, 1839 ) was an American Democratic-Republican politician.

In 1839, with Benjamin Latrobe, John Jervis, J Edgar Thomson, Claudius Crozet, Horatio Allen, Henry Campbell, and others he helped organize the American Society of Civil Engineers in Philadelphia ; although this organization languished he helped form a new AS of CE in New York in 1852.

The first lecture supported by his trust, by Yale geologist Benjamin Silliman, was offered in December, 1839.

Benjamin Hobson ( 1816 – 1873 ), a medical missionary sent by the London Missionary Society in 1839, set up a highly successful Wai Ai Clinic ( 惠愛醫館 ) in Guangzhou, China.

* Benjamin F. Thompson History of Long Island ( 1839, 1918 Edition ) vol.