* 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 )

The horse is named after the Russian colonel Nikolai Przhevalsky ( 1839 – 1888 ) ( the name is of Polish origin and " Przewalski " is the Polish spelling ).

* Nikolai Przhevalsky ( 1839 — 1888 )-Russian geographer and explorer of Central and Eastern Asia.

* November 1-Nikolai Przhevalsky ( born 1839 ), explorer.

* 1784 – Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet ( d. 1839 )

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

* 1839 – Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Russian composer ( d. 1881 )

* March 28 – Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer ( b. 1839 )

* July 27 – Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet ( d. 1839 )

* the southeastern Alaska Panhandle was leased from the Russian Empire, from 1839 to 1867, until the lease was ignored by both the Russians and Americans and, subsequently, by the Canadian and the British imperial governments, despite British Columbia's protests.

The settlement was founded as a Russian military outpost in 1839 and was named after Admiral Mikhail Lazarev.

In 1837, a Russian inventor Dmitry Zagryazhsky designed a " carriage with mobile tracks " which he patented the same year, but due to a lack of funds he was unable to build a working prototype, and his patent was voided in 1839.

* Konstantin Arseniev ( 1839 ) ( in Russian ) The reign of Peter II ( Царствование Петра II ) at Runivers. ru in DjVu and PDF formats

Perovskites take their name from this compound, which was first discovered in the Ural mountains of Russia by Gustav Rose in 1839 and is named after Russian mineralogist L. A. Perovski ( 1792 – 1856 ).

* December 8-Alexander Odoevsky, Russian poet, one of the Decembrists ( died 1839 )

A group that called itself " The Mighty Five ", headed by Balakirev ( 1837 – 1910 ) and including Rimsky-Korsakov ( 1844 – 1908 ), Mussorgsky ( 1839 – 81 ), Borodin ( 1833 – 87 ) and César Cui ( 1835 – 1918 ), proclaimed its purpose to compose and popularize Russian national traditions in classical music.

The coastal area at the mouth of the Stikine was part of Russian America at the time, but the British had rights of free navigation to the Stikine by treaties in 1825 and 1839 as well as a lease of coastal lands to the south of it ).

Early in The Great Game, Russian interests in the region collided with those of the British Empire in the First Anglo-Afghan War in 1839.

Several Russian authors published works critical on Custine's La Russie en 1839, among them Un mot sur l ' ouvrage de M. de Custine, intitulé: La Russie en 1839 by Xavier Labensky ( Jean Polonius ) and Examen de l ' ouvrage de M. le marquis de Custine intitulé " La Russie en 1839 " ( Paris, 1844 ) by Nicolas Gretch.

The same character themes continued to influence Russian literature, particularly after Mikhail Lermontov invigorated the Byronic hero through the character Pechorin in his 1839 novel A Hero of Our Time.

The word Bylina is derived from the past tense of the verb “ to be ” ( Russian: быть byt ') and implies “ something that was .” The term most likely originated with scholars of Russian folklore ; in 1839, Sakharov, a Russian folklorist, published an anthology of Russian folklore, a section of which he titled “ Byliny of the Russian People ,” causing the popularization of the term.