The discontent grew to open rebellion, fed by both Ottoman and British money and support: Bashir II fled, the Ottoman empire reasserted control and Mehmed Hüsrev Pasha, whose sole term as Grand Vizier ran from 1839 to 1841, appointed another member of the Shihab family, who styled himself Bashir III.

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.

By the treaty of 1839, Luxembourg did not fully join Belgium, and remained a possession of the Netherlands until different inheritance laws caused it to separate as an independent Grand Duchy.

The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Duchy of Limburg ( 1839 – 1867 ) | Limburg in 18391, 2 and 3 United Kingdom of the Netherlands ( until 1830 ) 1 and 2 Netherlands | Kingdom of the Netherlands ( after 1830 ) 2 Duchy of Limburg ( 1839 – 1867 ) ( in the German Confederacy after 1839 as compensation for Waals-Luxemburg ) 3 and 4 Belgium | Kingdom of Belgium ( after 1830 ) 4 and 5 Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( borders until 1830 ) 4 Luxembourg ( province ) | Province of Luxembourg ( Waals-Luxemburg, to Belgium in 1839 ) 5 Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( German Luxemburg ; borders after 1839 ) In blue, the borders of the German Confederation.

Over time the first three runnings of the event were quickly forgotten to secure the 1839 race its place in history as the first official Grand National.

The Grand National was designed as a cross-country steeplechase when it was first officially run in 1839.

The opening of the Grand Junction Canal ( later renamed Grand Union Canal ) as the major freight transport route between London and Birmingham in 1796 began a commercial boom, intensified by the arrival of Brunel's Great Western Railway in 1839, leading to th of brick factories, flour mills and chemical plants which formed the town's commercial base.

In 1839 the Grand Trunk Western Railroad opened a small train station.

He married his first cousin, Sophie, daughter of King William I of Württemberg and Grand Duchess Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, in Stuttgart on 18 June 1839.

The number of municipalities was reduced to 2, 508 when the Belgian borders were recognised in 1839 as 124 municipalities were ceded to the Netherlands and another 119 municipalities became the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

Newton Road railway station | Newton Road station on the Grand Junction Railway, one of the original stations of the line, in 1839.

Of particular note is that in 1839 First Trinity won the Grand Challenge Cup in the first Henley Regatta ( not made " Royal " till 1851 ).

In 1839 the Grand Western Canal reached Taunton aiding trade to the south, which was further enhanced by the arrival of the railway in 1842.

Norton Fitzwarren was the site of a boat lift on the now unused section of the Grand Western Canal from 1839 to 1867.

Construction of the National Road stopped in 1839, and much of the road through Indiana and Illinois remained unfinished, and was later transferred to the states.

Between 1835 and late 1839, Terre Haute served as the headquarters for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers under Major Cornelius A. Ogden during the construction of the National Road.

Teutopolis, City of the Teutons, or Germans, was established in 1839 and is located on the Cumberland Trail known as the Old National Road and now U. S. Route 40.

In 1839 the National School, later St Andrew's Church of England School, was built with the earlier school in a small cottage, which still stands, became the headmaster's house.

The Reverend Benjamin Waugh ( 20 February 1839 – 11 March 1908 ) was a Victorian social reformer and campaigner who founded the UK charity, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ( NSPCC ) in the late 19th century, and also wrote various hymns.

Philemon Wright ( September 3, 1760-June 3, 1839 ) was a farmer and entrepreneur who founded Wrightstown, the first permanent settlement in the National Capital Region of Canada.

In 1839, she was elected to the executive committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and became editor of the society's National Anti-Slavery Standard in 1840.

* Roberts, David, Eastern Journal, 1838 – 1839, unpublished manuscript, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh.

* Seventy-four, race horse who finished second in the 1839 Grand National.

A number of alumni have made meaningful contributions to arts and letters: Joel T. Headley ( 1839 ), author of numerous books about the Adirondack Mountains and early American history ; William James Stillman ( 1848 ), photographer and author ; Fitz Hugh Ludlow ( 1856 ), author of The Hashish Eater ; Andrea Barrett ( 1974 ), winner of the National Book Award ( for Ship Fever ) and the Pulitzer Prize for works of fiction ; and David Markson ( 1950 ), author of titles such as The Ballad of Dingus Magee.

Although during his earlier political life, Owen affiliated himself with the Democratic Party of Andrew Jackson, in 1839, he presided over the first state convention of the emerging Whig Party ; three weeks later, he served as president of the National Whig Convention in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

* James Kimbrough Jones ( 1839 – 1908 ), chairman of the Democratic National Committee

The first school in the town was the National School for Boys which opened in 1839.

The ' official ' first running of the world's most famous steeplechase, the Grand National, held annually at Aintree in England, took place in 1839.

Charge of the Iron Brigade, ancestor to the 32nd Infantry Division, at the Battle of Antietam, 17 September 1862. Called the State Militia until 1879, the Wisconsin National Guard was appointed by the first adjutant general of the Wisconsin Territory in 1839.

Pierpont's many published sermons include, among others, The Burning of the Ephesian Letters ( 1833 ), Jesus Christ Not a Literal Sacrifice ( 1834 ), New Heavens and a New Earth ( 1837 ), Moral Rule of Political Action ( 1839 ), National Humiliation ( 1840 ), and A Discourse on the Covenant with Judas ( 1842 ).

In 1839 the Federal government gave permission to New York State's 27th Regiment to drill at the fort, thus qualifying it as the nation's first National Guard training camp.

He contributed to the society's exhibitions upwards of three hundred portraits and other works, among them being " The Enchantress Armida ", exhibited in 1831 ; " Haidee aroused from her Trance by the sound of Music ", 1834 ; " Eros ", 1836 ; " Italian Boys playing at the National Game of Mora " and the " Prisoner of Chillon ", 1837 ; " The Scene in St. Peter's, Rome, from Byron's Deformed Transformed ", 1839 ; " The Convent of St. Isidore: the Monks giving away provisions ", 1841 ; and a " Scene in a Spanish Posada in Andalusia ", 1843.

The fence took its name from Captain Martin Becher, who fell there from his mount, Conrad, in the first official Grand National in 1839, and took shelter in the brook to avoid injury.

There has been no equine fatality in the Grand National at The Chair since 1979, and only three since the race was founded in 1839.

Encouraged by the extra trade generated by the Waterloo Cup, the Liverpool entrepreneur turned his attention to the Turf the following year and organised the first running of the Grand Liverpool Steeplechase, known as the Grand National since 1839.

Lottery was the winner of the 1839 Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree, near Liverpool, England.

One of the persistent myths of baseball history is that Doubleday invented the game in 1839, although he was in West Point at the time.

Although Doubleday achieved minor fame as a competent combat general with experience in many important Civil War battles, he is more widely remembered as the supposed inventor of the game of baseball, in Elihu Phinney's cow pasture in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.

* 1839 – The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift " free to the world ".

The first mechanically-propelled 2-wheel vehicle may have been built by Kirkpatrick MacMillan, a Scottish blacksmith, in 1839, although the claim is open to dispute.

These were partly the result of the tireless travels he had begun in 1839 in search of unread manuscripts of the New Testament, " to clear up in this way ," he wrote, " the history of the sacred text, and to recover if possible the genuine apostolic text which is the foundation of our faith.

Joseph Smith also identified the term evangelist with the office of patriarch in 1839, stating that " an Evangelist is a Patriarch ".

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.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Germany, three pioneer physical educators – Johann Friedrich GutsMuths ( 1759 – 1839 ) and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn ( 1778 – 1852 ) – created exercises for boys and young men on apparatus they had designed that ultimately led to what is considered modern gymnastics.

The first Anglo-Afghan War ( 1839 – 1842 ) resulted in the destruction of a British army ; it is remembered as an example of the ferocity of Afghan resistance to foreign rule.

One of his most remarkably inventive works is the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner ( 1839 ) based on Samuel Coleridge's famous poem, which recently sold at Sotheby's for ₤ 27, 000.

His major work, a color-plate book entitled The Birds of America ( 1827 – 1839 ), is considered one of the finest ornithological works ever completed.

Burial Hill ( now Flagstaff railway station ) became its home ground in January 1839, however, the area was already set aside for Botanical Gardens and the club was moved on in October 1846, to an area on the south bank of the Yarra about where the Herald and Weekly Times building is today.

The name is first shown on a map of the region published in 1839.

* 1839 – The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.

* 1839 – The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.

* 1839 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.

The state was formed by secession from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1830, whose neutrality and integrity was protected by the Treaty of London 1839 ; thus it served as a buffer state between the European powers France, Prussia ( after 1871 the German Empire ), the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of the Netherlands until World War I. Belgium is divided between the Flemings in the north and the French-speaking or the German-speaking population in the south.

St Stephen I's feast day in the Roman Catholic Church is celebrated on 2 August When in 1839 the new feast of St Alphonsus Mary de Liguori was assigned to 2 August, Saint Stephen I was mentioned only as a commemoration within the Mass of Saint Alphonsus.

The word " photograph " was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek φῶς ( phos ), meaning " light ", and γραφή ( graphê ), meaning " drawing, writing ", together meaning " drawing with light ".

The legendary Sesostris ( likely either Pharaoh Senusret II or Senusret III of the Twelfth dynasty of Egypt ) is suggested to have perhaps started work on an ancient canal joining the River Nile with the Red Sea ( 1897 BC – 1839 BC ).

* June 25 – Abd-ul-Mejid I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire ( 1839 – 1861 ) dies and is succeeded by Abd-ul-Aziz ( 1861 – 1876 ).

* Half of the Limburg province of Belgium is added to the Netherlands ( since 1839 there is a Belgian Limburg and Dutch Limburg ).

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The introduction and translation of Western legal texts into Chinese is believed to have been started under the auspices of Lin Zexu in 1839.