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* 1839 – Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinqué take over the slave ship Amistad.
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* 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 ".
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* 1839 – The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China.
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* 1839 – The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.
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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 ".
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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 )
1839 and miles
A 1839 report cites the travel time as three months and ten days — almost 26 miles ( 40 km ) per day on average.
* Fort Noel ( 1839 – 1842 ), south of Lamont on the Aucilla River, six miles ( 10 km ) northwest of Fort Pleasant in Taylor County.
later Lineville, was organized in 1839 and built one and one quarter miles west of the town of
The improved Ft. Smith to Ft. Towson military road of 1839 passed along the east side of Rattan ( 1. 17 miles east of the OK 93 junction with OK 3 ) after crossing the " Seven Devils " on its way southeast to Spencer Academy and Doaksville.
Compared to other travellers of the time, they travelled quickly — an 1839 report cites the travel time as three months and ten days — almost 26 miles ( 40 km ) per day on average.
The first branch from the main line was the Aylesbury Railway, seven miles of single track, which opened in 1839 and was leased to the L & BR until purchased outright by the LNWR in 1846.
The Auburn and Syracuse Railroad was chartered May 1, 1834, and opened mostly in 1838, the remaining 4 miles ( 6 km ) opening on June 4, 1839.
In 1839 ( June – August ), Shamil and his followers, numbering about 4000 men, women and children, found themselves under siege in their mountain stronghold of Akhoulgo, nestled in the bend of the Andee Koisou River, about ten miles east of Gimry.
Roscrea Poor Law Union was declared in 1839 and covered an area of 242 square miles ; 37 ' Guardians ' oversaw the operations of Union.
In 1839 Father Reho, an Italian, visited Peoria, remaining long enough to build the old stone church in Kickapoo, a small town twelve miles distant.
By 1839, his gambier plantation had stretched for eight to ten miles, from the upper end of River Valley Road to Bukit Timah Road and Thomson Road.
In 1839, he joined one of his brothers at Sydney, went overland to Melbourne, and followed mercantile pursuits for about 18 months, He then joined his brother Frederick at Adelaide and in 1842 or early in 1843, discovered copper at Kapunda, 45 miles north of Adelaide.
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Also in 1839, the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque was published in two volumes, though he made little money off of it and it received mixed reviews.
After sending a couple of exploratory missions to the area, the British East India Company coaptured the town when HMS Wellesley anchored off Manora island on 1 February 1839.
The United Kingdom of the Netherlands ( 1815 – 1839 ) (, ) is the unofficial name used to refer to the Kingdom of the Netherlands (, ) during the period after it was first created from part of the First French Empire and before the new Kingdom of Belgium split off from it in 1830.
File: DeWitt County Illinois 1839. png | DeWitt County from its creation in 1839 to the splitting off of Piatt County in 1841
* The 1839 novel by Honoré de Balzac, Pierre Grassou, concerns an artist who lives off forgeries.
The race has been held at Aintree each year since 1839, with the exception of 1916 – 1918 during the First World War when it was held at Gatwick Racecourse, 1941 – 1945 during the Second World War when it was called off, and in 1993 when the race was declared void owing to a false start.
Friday Hill HouseFriday Hill House, Simmons Lane, off Friday Hill, dating from 1839, was a manor house built and owned by Robert Boothby Heathcote, who was both the lord of the manor and rector of the local church.
Bath Township was originally organized in 1839 as Ossowa Township, having been split off from DeWitt Township by an act of the governor.
On March 22, 1839, Oshtemo Township was set off from Kalamazoo.
On March 8, 1839, the Town of Kinnikennick was created by the territorial legislature, encompassing the western part of the Town of Lake ); and on December 20, 1839, the south portion of the Town of Kinnikennick was split off to form the town of Franklin.
Here Froude began to thrive personally and intellectually, motivated to succeed by a brief engagement in 1839 ( although this was broken off by the lady's father ).
Almost all were taken on the HMS Buffalo, leaving Quebec in September 1839 and arriving off Hobart, Van Diemen's Land in February 1840.
In the October 1839 issue of a magazine, he took a local judge, one of his own instructors in law school, to task for letting off a ship's captain and mate with a slap on the wrist for murdering the ship's cook, beating him to death for not " laying hold " of a piece of equipment.
This move could not have come sooner ; some creditors had already cut off some Houston businessmen, and there were numerous yellow fever outbreaks, including an 1839 outbreak that killed about 12 percent of its population.
The passing of the City of London Police Act 1839 gave statutory approval to the force as an independent police body, heading off attempts made to merge it with the Metropolitan Police.
In 1839 Lachlan was forced to relinquish his tenancy of Rum, bankrupt, penniless and, in the words of a Cape Breton letter from 1897, " much worse off than the comfortable people he turned out of Rum 13 years previously ".
Amistad is a 1997 historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg based on the true story of an uprising in 1839 by newly captured African slaves that took place aboard the ship La Amistad off the coast of Cuba, the subsequent voyage to the Northeastern United States, and the legal battle that followed their capture by a United States revenue cutter.
Between 1839 and 1859 between five and twelve ships made landfall each year, occasionally closer to 20 with seven or eight at a time laying off the reef.
Between 1839 and 1859 between five and twelve ships made landfall per year ( occasionally closer to 20 ) with seven or eight at a time laying off the reef.
The HMS Queen ( 1839 ) | Queen Heeling ( sailing ) | heeled over on the River Thames | Thames Intertidal zone | foreshore off Rotherhithe.
Suddenly, Gould decided they should separate, and sent Gilbert off on 4 February 1839 Gilbert to the Swan River settlement, assuring him that he would look after all his personal possessions then still in Hobart.
* 22 March — Thomas Murphy, recipient of the Victoria Cross for bravery at sea in saving life in a storm off the Andaman Islands in 1867 ( born 1839 ).
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