* 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 )

Mahmud II started the modernization of Turkey by paving the way for the Edict of Tanzimat in 1839.

* Edict of Toleration ( 1839 ), by King Kamehameha III of Hawaii.

On November 3, 1839, Sultan Abdülmecid issued an organic statute for the general government of the empire named Hatt-ı Şerif ( the Imperial Edict ) of Gülhane ( the imperial garden where it was first proclaimed ).

The Edict is very specific about the status of non-Muslims, making it possible " to see it as the outcome of a period of religious restlessness that followed the Edict of 1839.

The Hatt-i Sharif ( Hatt-ı Şerif ) of the Gülhane ( Imperial Edict of the Rose House ) or Tanzimât Fermânı ( Imperial Edict of Reorganization ) was an 1839 proclamation by Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid I that launched the Tanzimât period of reforms and reorganization.

Koca Mustafa Reşid Pasha | Great Mustapha Rashid Pasha Principal architect of the Tanzimat | Tanzimât تنظيمات Hatt-i Sharif of Gülhane Park | Gülhane ( The Ottoman Imperial Edict of Reorganization, proclaimed on November 3rd, 1839 ).

He began to lose his power due to the centralist policies of the Ottoman Empire, which culminated in the Tanzimat Edict of 1839 and its application the following year.

Great Mustapha Rashid Pasha Principal architect of the Tanzimat Hatt-i Sharif | Hatt-ı Sharif of Gülhane Park | Gülhane ( The Ottoman Imperial Edict of Reorganization, proclaimed on November 3rd, 1839 ).

An Edict of Toleration was issued by King Kamehameha III of Hawaii on June 17, 1839, which allowed for the establishment of the Hawaii Catholic Church.

Under threat of the French government seeking to protect the work of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, Kamehameha III issued an Edict of Toleration on June 17, 1839 allowing for the establishment of the Hawaii Catholic Church.

* 1839 – In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands.

Kuini Liliha ( c. 1802 – 1839 ) was a High Chiefess in the ancient Hawaiian tradition and served the Kingdom of Hawaii as royal governor of

Paul Neumann ( 1839 – 1901 ) was a lawyer, politician, and diplomat in California and the Kingdom of Hawaii.

The aim of this voyage was primarily political ; Laplace delivered a manifesto on the treatment of Catholics in the Kingdom of Hawaii in July 1839 which came to be known as the Laplace Affair.

Category: 1839 in Hawaii

The 1839 Hawaiian Bill of Rights, also known as the 1839 Constitution of Hawaii, was an attempt by Kamehameha III and his chiefs to guarantee that the Hawaiian people would not lose their tenured land, and provided the groundwork for a free enterprise system.

* USS Austin ( 1839 ), a sloop-of-war ( originally in the Texas Navy )

( Paris, 1839 ), pp. 261, 265, 279, 296, 310, 353, 363, 370 ; Joinville, ed.

He took the habit of a Friar Preacher at Rome ( 1839 ), and the province of France was canonically erected in 1850.

* Province of Limburg ( 1815 – 1839 ), province of the former United Kingdom of the Netherlands

* Duchy of Limburg ( 1839 – 1867 ), duchy in personal union with the Kingdom of the Netherlands

* Limburg ( Belgium ) ( 1839 – present ), a province of Belgium

Three years later, Rosina published Cheveley, or the Man of Honour ( 1839 ), a near-libellous fiction bitterly satirising her husband's hypocrisy.

* Richelieu ( 1839 ), adapted for the 1935 film Cardinal Richelieu

* 1778 – Fernando Sor ( baptized ), Spanish composer ( d. 1839 )

William Smith ( 1769 – 1839 ), an English canal engineer, observed that rocks of different ages ( based on the law of superposition ) preserved different assemblages of fossils, and that these assemblages succeeded one another in a regular and determinable order.

Witness his monographs on the vowel system in th Teutonic languages ( 1836 ), on the Celtic languages ( 1839 ), on the Old Prussian ( 1853 ) and Albanian languages ( Über das Albanesische in seinen verwandtschaftlichen Beziehungen, Vienna, 1854 ), on the accent in Sanskrit and Greek ( 1854 ), on the relationship of the Malayo-Polynesian with the Indo-European languages ( 1840 ), and on the Caucasian languages ( 1846 ).

Though Farmer died in 1839, his efforts led to the creation of the New England Historic Genealogical Society ( NEHGS ), one of New England's oldest and most prominent organizations dedicated to the preservation of public records.

Other authors of the Gogol's era included Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky ( The Living Corpse, written 1838, published 1844, The Ghost, The Sylphide, and other stories ), Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy ( The Family of the Vourdalak, 1839, and The Vampire, 1841 ), Mikhail Zagoskin ( Unexpected Guests ), Józef Sękowski / Osip Senkovsky ( Antar ), Yevgeny Baratynsky ( The Ring ).

His mother, Mary Litogot Ford ( 1839 – 1876 ), was born in Michigan ; she was the youngest child of Belgian immigrants ; her parents died when Mary was a child and she was adopted by neighbors, the O ' Herns.

Since Karl Otfried Müller's Die Dorier ( 1830, English translation 1839 ), I. ch.