* 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 )

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 )

* July 30 – Walter Pater, English essayist and critic ( b. 1839 )

Subsequently a stream of famous visitors came to view Staffa's wonders including Robert Adam, Sir Walter Scott ( 1810 ), John Keats ( 1818 ), J. M. W. Turner, whose 1830 visit yielded an oil painting exhibited in 1832, William Wordsworth ( 1833 ), Jules Verne ( 1839 ), Alice Liddell ( the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland ) in 1878, David Livingstone ( 1864 ), Robert Louis Stevenson ( 1870 ) and Mendelssohn himself in 1829.

His major work was the Life of Sir Walter Scott ( 7 vols, 1837 — 1838 ; 2nd ed., 10 vols., 1839 ).

* Industrialist Walter Somers was born in Repton in 1839.

Walter was born in Waterville, Maine, served in the Aroostook War in 1839, studied medicine in Burlington, Vermont and New York City, and began his practice in Richmond, Maine.

Walter Horatio Pater ( 4 August 1839 – 30 July 1894 ) was an English essayist, critic of art and literature, and writer of fiction.

The chief authority for the bishop's life is William de Chambre, printed in Wharton's Anglia Sacra, 1691, and in Historiae conelmensis scriptores tres, Surtees Soc., 1839, who describes him as an amiable and excellent man, charitable in his diocese, and the liberal patron of many learned men, among these being Thomas Bradwardine, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, Richard Fitzralph, afterwards Archbishop of Armagh, the enemy of the mendicant orders, Walter Burley, who translated Aristotle, John Mauduit the astronomer, Robert Holkot and Richard de Kilvington.

* Walter Pater ( 4 August 1839 – 30 July 1894 ) — essayist and critic

* Walter Henry Erskine, 11th Earl of Mar and 13th Earl of Kellie ( 1839 – 1888 )

Charles and Hannah had 13 children: Charles ( 1838 – 1903 ), Frederick ( 1839 – 1905, married Anne Jane Sutcliffe ), Elizabeth ( 1840 – 1912, married Thomas Boyes ), Henry ( 1842 – 1866 ), Ellen ( 1844 – 1845 ), Edward ( 1845 – 1845 ), Walter ( 1846 – 1911 ), Thirza Ann ( 1849 – 1929, married Robert William Skilton ), Edmund ( 1851 – 1923, married Annie Morris ), Emily ( 1853 – 1923 ), Jessie ( 1855 – 1904 ), Arthur William ( 1857 – 1946, married Eliza Jane Wilson ), and Horace ( 1859 – 1867 ).

Roger Goldsworthy was born in Marylebone, Middlesex in 1839, and educated at Sandhurst, the younger brother of Major-General Walter Tuckfield Goldsworthy MP ( 1837-1911 ).

His younger brothers Major-General Lord Ralph Kerr ( 1837 – 1916 ) and Admiral of the Fleet Lord Walter Kerr ( 1839 – 1927 ) both had distinguished military careers.

Finally, starting something of a trend among later commentators, the art critic Walter Pater ( 1839 – 1894 ) adverted to the work's homoerotic appeal by way of explaining why it had been so long lionized.

William Walter Phelps ( August 24, 1839 – June 17, 1894 ), the son of John Jay Phelps, a successful New York City merchant and financier, was born in Dundaff, Pennsylvania.

* July 30-Walter Horatio Pater, author ( born 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.

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.

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

* 1839 – Arthur Tooth, English clergyman ( d. 1931 )

* 1839 – Frederick Halsey, English politician ( d. 1927 )

* 1774 – Lord William Bentinck, English soldier and statesman, 14th Governor-General of India ( d. 1839 )

* The story of Thuggee was popularised by books such as Philip Meadows Taylor's novel Confessions of a Thug, 1839, leading to the word " thug " entering the English language.

* January 25 – Ouida, English writer ( born 1839 )

* March 23 – William Smith, English geologist and cartographer ( d. 1839 )

Their languages predominated, so much so that the Danish government, in 1839, declared that slave children must attend school in the English language.

* Tom Souville ( 1777 – 1839 ), privateer called " Cap ' n Tom " by the English.

William ' Strata ' Smith ( 23 March 1769 – 28 August 1839 ) was an English geologist, credited with creating the first nationwide geological map.

* William Smith ( geologist ) ( 1769 – 1839 ), English geologist

Original European settlement of the area occurred in 1839 on the north side of the English River north of Wellman.

He appears as a character in the opera, composed by Daniel Auber to a libretto by Eugène Scribe, and has the title-role in the opera Farinelli by the English composer John Barnett, first performed at Drury Lane in 1839, where his part is, oddly, written for a tenor ( this work is itself an adaptation of the anonymous, premiered in Paris in 1835 ).

* Robert Bree ( 1759 – 1839 ), English physician

He translated it into English and, in 1839, sold it to Mordecai Manuel Noah.

Edmund Henry Barker ( 1788 – 21 March 1839 ) was an English classical scholar.

In 1839, an English adventurer arrived on the northwest coast of Borneo, commissioned to deliver a letter of gratitude to the Sultan of Brunei for having safely returned the crew of a British merchantman, lost on his coast.

On 12 February 1839, Burke fought William Thompson for the English heavyweight crown.

* Admiral Sir Henry Trollope ( 1756 – 1839 ) English.

George Gouldthorpe ( 1839 – 1910 ) folksinger and workhouse inmate who provided many of the songs collected by Percy Grainger of the English Folk Dance and Song Society