The first decade of the new millennium saw Jardine Cycle & Carriage acquire an initial 31 % stake in Astra International, which has since been increased to just over 50 % and a 20 % shareholding in Rothschilds Continuation Holdings, which rekindled a relationship that began in 1838.

By 1838, however, American settlers were coming across the Rocky Mountains and their numbers increased each subsequent year.

Stories about their treatment circulated in nearby non-Mormon communities and increased the tension that led to the 1838 Mormon War.

The opening of the London and Birmingham Railway in 1838 actually increased the tonnage of coal carried by the canal.

* 1838 – Melbourne is declared a legal port and administrative centre, opening the way for vastly increased immigration

Income from tolls increased steadily from £ 971 in 1835, rising to £ 2754 in 1838 and £ 4926 in 1844.

The emancipation of the slaves in 1838 increased the need for coinage in Jamaica, particularly low denomination coins, but the blacks were still reluctant to use copper.

Interest in the fort increased in the 19th century, particularly after the farm was purchased by the historian, John Clayton, in 1838, to add to his collection of Roman Wall farms.

was increased to three regiments in 1838 and to four in 1854.

He entered the British Army as an ensign in the Grenadier Guards on 1 July 1836, and was present during the insurrection in Canada in 1838.

The first Sheriff, Mr Samuel Smart, was wounded during the robbery, and on 2 May 1838 one of the offenders, Michael Magee, became the first person to be hanged in South Australia.

They were married on 4 May 1836 and Margherita gave birth to two children, Virginia Maria Luigia ( 26 March 1837 – 12 August 1838 ) and Icilio Romano ( 11 July 1838 – 22 October 1839 ).

John Wilkes Booth ( May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865 ) was a famous American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D. C., on April 14, 1865.

They purchased a farm near Bel Air in Harford County, Maryland, where John Wilkes Booth was born in a four-room log house on May 10, 1838, the ninth of ten children.

However, on May 2, 1838, a few months before Smith's statement in Elders ' Journal, Smith began dictating a church history that included a detailed account of his visits from the angel.

Further petitions organised by him were presented on 1 May 1838 ( from Dunbar and Cupar ), 14 May 1838 ( from the county of Forfar ) and 12 June 1839.

* May 3 – Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist ( d. 1838 )

The Chartist Northern Star, first published on 26 May 1838, was a pioneer of popular journalism but was very closely linked to the fortunes of the movement and was out of business by 1852.

* A British steamer named SS Sir Robert Peel, based in Canada, was burned by American forces on 29 May 1838, at the height of American-Canadian tensions over the Caroline Affair.

17 May 1838

James Jerome Hill ( September 16, 1838 – May 29, 1916 ), was a Canadian-American railroad executive.

The last Congressional appropriation was made May 25, 1838, and in 1840 Congress voted against completing the unfinished portion of the road, with the deciding vote cast by Henry Clay.

The largest death toll from the Cherokee forced relocation comes from the period after the May 23, 1838 deadline.

* Winfield Scott's Address to the Cherokee Nation, May 10, 1838

Gottfried Semper ( November 29, 1803 – May 15, 1879 ) was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture, who designed and built the Semper Opera House in Dresden between 1838 and 1841.

On May 3, 1838, it was the site of the Subashi landing of the Russians, who proceeded to construct Fort Golovinsky where many convicted Decembrists used to serve.

Galveston County was formally established under the Republic of Texas on May 15, 1838.

May 24, 1838 to January 24, 1840, shows the borders of Bastrop County to contain parts of present day Blanco, Burnet, Williamson, Travis, Hays, Comal, Caldwell, Bastrop, Lee, Gonzales and Fayette counties.

On his arrival in London in May 1838, Howe discussed the enterprise with fellow Nova Scotian Samuel Cunard ( 1787 – 1865 ), a shipowner who was also visiting London on business.

Franklin County was established on 9 May 1838.

When these demands were first published in May, 1838, they received a lukewarm response from Northern Star's Feargus O ' Connor and other Radicals, being seen as too moderate ( Thompson, 1984, p. 58 ).

After some controversy involving his advocating on behalf of Aboriginal people, Giustiniani left the colony in 1838.

In 1838 he appeared before a House of Lords Select Committee advocating planned colonisation of New Zealand.

* 1838 – Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.

* 1838 – Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada ( today Quebec )

Guatemala gained independence from Spain on September 15, 1821 ; it briefly became part of the Mexican Empire and then for a period belonged to a federation called The United Provinces of Central America, until the federation broke up in civil war in 1838 – 1840 ( See: History of Central America ).

Nicaragua became a part of the Mexican Empire and then gained its independence as a part of the United Provinces of Central America in 1821, then as an independent republic in its own right in 1838.

Pre-1937 buildings that survive include: Dambadarjaalin monastery in Sukhbaatar District ( 1765 ), Dashchoilin monastery's large yurt chapels ( built in 1778 ), Gandan monastery's golden-roofed Gandantegchinlen temple also called the Tsogchin dugan ( 1838 ), Vajradhara temple ( 1841 ), Zuu temple ( 1869 ), Didan Laviran temple ( 19th century ), the restored Russian Consulate building ( 1863 ), Erdem Itgemjit temple ( 1893 ) at the Bogd Khan's Winter Palace, rest of the buildings at the same Palace ( 1893 – 1906 ), the Museum of Ulaanbaatar's History which was formerly the private residence of the rich Buryat merchant Tsogt Badamjav ( 1904 ), Zanabazar's Art Museum building which was formerly called the Ondor Khorshoo ( 1905 ), the two-storey brick headquarters of the mining company " Mongolore " ( 1905 ), the tall Megjid Janraisig temple ( 1913 – 1914 ), the residence of Chin Wang Khanddorj, a prominent noble and politician in the early years of Mongolia's independence ( 1913 ), the first telephone building where Russian Orthodox choir singers stayed ( 1914 ), Marshal Zhukov Museum etc.

While this sum was later reduced to 90 million francs ( in 1838 ), it was a crushing economic blow to Haiti, which essentially had to buy its independence after having defeated French forces.

France only recognised the independence of Haiti in 1838.

Rolle is also the birthplace of Frédéric-César de la Harpe ( 1754 – 1838 ), who was the tutor of Alexander I of Russia and was largely responsible for the independence of the Canton of Vaud from the Bernese.

On 28 February 1838, after having crossed the border from Vermont, Nelson, along with 300 to 400 Patriotes from a secret group called Frères Chasseurs, distributed copies of a declaration of independence written by Nelson ’ s brother, Robert Nelson.

To the old thirst for sovereignty that had prompted the Great Trek into the interior from 1838 on, would be added a new thirst for total independence and Nationalism.

Under the presidency of Jean Pierre Boyer, Haiti made reparations to French slaveholders in 1825 in the amount of 150 million francs, reduced in 1838 to 60 million francs, in exchange for French recognition of its independence and to achieve freedom from French aggression.

The independence of Los Altos from Guatemala was officially proclaimed on 2 February 1838.

The former monastery of Churubusco now houses the state-run " Interventions Museum " ( Museo de las Intervenciones ), documenting the different assaults on its territorial integrity that Mexico has suffered since declaring its independence in 1810: 1829 ( Spain ), 1838 ( France ), 1846 ( USA ), 1862 ( France ), and 1916 ( USA ).

In 1838, other African-American settlements were united into the Commonwealth of Liberia, which declared its independence in 1847.

In 1838, a number of other American settlements on the west coast of Africa united to form the Commonwealth of Liberia, which then declared its independence in 1847.