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.

The history of quantum mechanics dates back to the 1838 discovery of cathode rays by Michael Faraday.

The history of quantum chemistry essentially began with the 1838 discovery of cathode rays by Michael Faraday, the 1859 statement of the black body radiation problem by Gustav Kirchhoff, the 1877 suggestion by Ludwig Boltzmann that the energy states of a physical system could be discrete, and the 1900 quantum hypothesis by Max Planck that any energy radiating atomic system can theoretically be divided into a number of discrete energy elements ε such that each of these energy elements is proportional to the frequency ν with which they each individually radiate energy and a numerical value called Planck ’ s Constant.

* July 29 – Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1838 )

Tobias Michael Carel Asser ( April 28, 1838, Amsterdam – July 29, 1913, The Hague ) was a Dutch lawyer and legal scholar of Jewish background, cowinner ( with Alfred Fried ) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1911 for his role in the formation of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the first Hague peace conference ( 1899 ).

The Chapter, which opened on July 24, 1838, resulted in the election of Brother Michael Paul Riordan as Rice's successor.

* Michael Sullivan ( Canadian senator ) ( 1838 – 1915 ), former Canadian senator

* Queen Victoria's Maharajah, Duleep Singh, 1838 – 93, by Michael Alexander and Sushila Anand.

From 1835 to 1838 he published textbooks on geometry and mechanics, largely a reaction to his former research assistant Bernt Michael Holmboe's textbooks.

Johann Friedrich Adam, later called Michael Friedrich Adams ( 1780 in Moscow – 1 March 1838 in Vereya ) was a botanist from St. Petersburg, Russia.

In 1838 the Committee for the London Bridge Approaches reported to Common Council that new burial grounds had been provided for the parishes of St Michael, Crooked Lane and St Magnus, London Bridge.

In 1838, the first Sheriff, Samuel Smart, was wounded during a robbery that led to one of the offenders, Michael Magee, becoming the first person to be hanged in South Australia on 2 May 1838.

In 1838 he became conductor of the English opera at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane during the period of Michael William Balfe's great popularity ; his own operas produced there were The Gipsy's Warning ( 1838 ), The Bride of Venice ( 1844 ), and The Crusaders ( 1846 ).

The line of stages, which ran between London, Lucan and Exeter, was operated by William and his brothers Michael, John, and Thomas, even rivaling the official mail stage that had been in business since 1838.

Michael Verdon ( 1838 – 1918 ), Second Bishop of Dunedin, New Zealand ( 1896 – 1918 )

In December 1838, the Congress passed the Atherton Gag, composed by Democratic States-Rights Congressman Atherton of New Hampshire, on the first petition day of the session.

The Potawatomi Trail of Death passed through here in 1838.

In 1838, the Potawatomi Indians passed near Huntsville on the Trail of Death.

The coaching trade came to an abrupt halt in September 1838 when the London and Birmingham Railway was opened, which bypassed Towcester and passed through Blisworth, barely four miles away but enough to result in Towcester quickly reverting to being a quiet market town.

He issued a collection of poems, Östliche Rosen ( Eastern Roses ), in 1822 ; and from 1834 to 1838 his Gesammelte Gedichte ( Collected Poems ) were published in six volumes, a selection which has passed through many editions.

The scholar Edward Robinson noted the village as being " small " when he passed by it in 1838.

The American scholar Robinson, who passed through the village in 1838, noted that it had suffered greatly from the Galilee earthquake of 1837, with 143 villagers reported dead.

Employed in 1807 in the manuscript department of the imperial library, he passed to the chair of Greek in university of Rouen in 1809, entered the Academy of Inscriptions in 1815, taught Hebrew and Aramaic in the Collège de France from 1819, and finally in 1838 became professor of Persian in the School of Living Oriental Languages, on the death of Silvestre de Sacy.

He passed the provincial examination a year later, and by 1838, at age 27, he had successfully passed the metropolitan examinations, a prestigious achievement in China.

A second imperial order-in-council was passed in 1838 with the correct rating of $ 1 = 4shillings 2pence.

Officially named the Chenango Canal Extension, it was for the purpose of " making connection with the Pennsylvania canal system, and thus to complete a route to the vast coal fields in that state, the New York Legislature, on April 18, 1838, passed an act ( chapter 292 ) directing the canal commissioners to cause a survey to be made from the termination of the Chenango canal at Binghamton, along the valley of the Susquehanna, to the State line near Tioga Point, at the termination of the North Branch canal of Pennsylvania, and to cause an estimate of the cost of this continuation to be made.

In 1838 the United States passed an act requiring steamboats running between sunset and sunrise to carry one or more signal lights ; color, visibility and location were not specified.

James Nokes died in 1838 and the mill passed to his son Thomas.

Amending an act passed in 1838, the act of 1840 provided for the indemnification of civilians whose property had been damaged without enquiring into the presumed loyalty of persons during the armed conflict.

He was born at 52 Doughty Street, London, 29 April 1816, and after his earlier education was articled, on 24 April 1832, to his uncle, Mr. Charles Sabine of Oswestry, for the term of five years, and passed the Incorporated Law Society's examination in November 1838, but there is no record of his ever having become a solicitor ; for the natural bent of his genius impelled him, like Dickens and Disraeli, to lighter studies, and he forsook law for literature.

The evils attendant on this system were found to be so great that the Pluralities Act 1838 was passed to abridge the holding of benefices in plurality, and it was enacted that no person should hold under any circumstances more than two benefices, and this privilege was made subject to the restriction that his benefices were within ten statute miles of each other.

Laws banning the carrying of concealed weapons were passed in Kentucky and Louisiana in 1813, and other states soon followed: Indiana ( 1820 ), Tennessee and Virginia ( 1838 ), Alabama ( 1839 ), and Ohio ( 1859 ).

The scholar Edward Robinson passed the by village in 1838, and described its houses as being made of adobe bricks.

In 1838, the settlement Zimnicea was passed in the fairs, with the general population census of that year 551 families and 3046 inhabitants.

The 1838 Louisiana legislature passed an act on January 16, 1838 to provide state-supported education of deaf children.

In 1838, a bill passed in the General Court that allowed the city to appoint police officers, paving the way for the creation of a formal police department.

The school opened in 1838, named after John Emory, an influential Methodist bishop who had passed before the school's opening, and Oxford University, the alma mater of the founders of the Methodist movement.

Founded in November 1838 the Melbourne Cricket Club ( MCC ) selected the current MCG site in 1853 after previously playing at several grounds around Melbourne.

By January 1837, an alliance of 107 Boers, sixty Rolong, and forty Coloured men, organised as a commando under the leadership of Potgieter and Gert Maritz, attacked Mzilikazi's settlement at Mosega, which suffered heavy losses, and early in 1838 Mzilikazi fled north beyond the Limpopo ( to current day Zimbabwe ), never to return to the Transvaal.

The mass working class movement for universal suffrage, chartism ,( 1838 on ) included a current called " temperance chartism ".

The name was changed to Thibodeaux in 1838, and the current spelling Thibodaux was officially adopted in 1918.

The Pennington School ( 1838 ) is located within Pennington and has a current enrollment of 475 students.

It gained its current name in 1838.

The borough of Green Bay was created in 1838 and is the main center of the current city.

In 1838, the town obtained its current name, after the three Maries ( Marys ) of its history.

* Old Methodist Church-the Primitive Methodist congregation was founded in 1838, although the current church on Bank Road, opposite the entrance to County Hall, was rebuilt in 1856 and the adjacent School Room below was added in 1878.

The species was moved to its current genus, Wilsonia, by the French naturalist and ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1838.

Florida has had a total of six different state constitutions, signed in 1838, 1861 ( secession ), 1865, 1868, 1885, and 1968 ( the current Florida Constitution ).

Distilling on the site began in 1797 and the distillery building itself was erected in 1838, making it the oldest of the nine bourbon distilleries in current operation in Kentucky as of 2010 – although the site has not been continuously operational as a distillery during that history.

By early 1838, large vessels could only get as far as the end of Gawler Reach ( near the current Birkenhead Bridge ).

First set aside in Colonel William Light's city plan for Adelaide in 1838, it wasn't until 1854, after a public appeal to Governor Sir Henry Young that gardens were established at the current location.