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* 1839 – William H. Seward, Jr., American general ( d. 1920 )
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* 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 )
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William Baker Ashton was appointed Governor of the temporary goal in 1839, and in 1840 George Strickland Kingston was commissioned to design Adelaide's new Gaol.
In the United States the first water caterpillar was patented in 1839 by William Leavenworth of New York.
William Grove produced the first fuel cell in 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.
Welsh Physicist William Grove developed the first crude fuel cells in 1839.
Sketch of William Grove's 1839 fuel cell
Based on this work, the first fuel cell was demonstrated by Welsh scientist and barrister Sir William Robert Grove in the February 1839 edition of the Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science and later sketched, in 1842, in the same journal.
William Smith ( 1769 – 1839 ) drew some of the first geological maps and began the process of ordering rock strata ( layers ) by examining the fossils contained in them.
* Sir William Reid ( b. April 25, 1791, Kinglassie-d. October 31, 1858, London, England ), governor of Bermuda ( 1839 – 46 ), Barbados ( 1846 – 48 ), and Malta ( 1851 – 58 ); knighted 1851
In 1839 William I became a party to the Treaty of London.
The lyrics written in 1841 describe a then – disunited Germany with the river as its western boundary, where King William I of the Netherlands had joined the German Confederation with his Duchy of Limburg in 1839.
* 1774 – Lord William Bentinck, English soldier and statesman, 14th Governor-General of India ( d. 1839 )
In late 1839, the Whigs held their first national convention and nominated William Henry Harrison as their presidential candidate.
Photography was realized in 1839 by Louis Daguerre in France and William Fox Talbot in the UK.
Hence, William Hallowes Miller in 1839 was able to give each face a unique label of three small integers, the Miller indices which are still used today for identifying crystal faces.
* August 21 – William Murdoch, Scottish inventor ( d. 1839 )
* March 23 – William Smith, English geologist and cartographer ( d. 1839 )
In the same year on 9 June William I became also the Grand Duke of Luxembourg and after 1839 he was furthermore the Duke of Limburg.
In 1839, William was forced to end the war.
The Afan was diverted and a dock was opened in 1839 named for the Talbot family, local landowners who were related to the pioneer photographer, William Henry Fox Talbot.
William I, King of the Netherlands, would refuse to recognize a Belgian state until 1839, when he had to yield under pressure by the Treaty of London.
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