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.

High above the city, near the small town of South Fork, the South Fork Dam was originally built between 1838 and 1853 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as part of a canal system to be used as a reservoir for a canal basin in Johnstown.

Founded in 1838 by the Baptist Community, Acadia's beginning was the result of the commitment and enthusiasm of a community determined to build a university.

Acadia began as an extension of Horton Academy ( 1828 ), which was founded in Horton, Nova Scotia, by Baptists from Nova Scotia and Queen's College ( 1838 ).

This definition was proposed by Justus von Liebig circa 1838, based on his extensive works on the chemical composition of organic acids.

In 1838, he was appointed principal of the united colleges of St Salvator and St Leonard, University of St Andrews.

The office was first created in 1838, with Thomas McCulloch serving as the university's first president.

When the earlier disputes broke out into the so-called Mormon War of 1838, Atchison was appointed a major general in the state militia and took part in suppression of the violence by both sides.

In 1838 he was re-elected to the Missouri State House of Representatives.

Diprotodon was named by Owen ( 1838 ).

Auckland's plan in the spring of 1838 was for the Sikhs to place Shuja on the Afghan throne, with British support.

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket was published and widely reviewed in 1838.

Emily became a teacher at Law Hill School in Halifax beginning in September 1838, when she was twenty.

William Wright had met and married Anna Lloyd Jones ( 1838 / 39 – 1923 ), a county school teacher, the previous year when he was employed as the superintendent of schools for Richland County.

The Foreign Legion was dissolved on 8 December 1838, when it had dropped to only 500 men.

The principle of the fuel cell was discovered by German scientist Christian Friedrich Schönbein in 1838 and published in one of the scientific magazines of the time.

Genealogical research in the United States was first systematized in the early 19th century, especially by John Farmer ( 1789 – 1838 ).

The first known use of the term grandmaster in connection with chess was in an 1838 issue of Bell's Life, in which a correspondent referred to William Lewis as " our past grandmaster ".

The argument and the evidence was further strengthened by Claude Pouillet in 1827 and 1838, and reasoned from experimental observations by John Tyndall in 1859, and more fully quantified by Svante Arrhenius in 1896.

In 1838 there was another revolt by the Druze and in 1840 the Egyptians withdrew, returning the area to Ottoman governorship.

Reynolds went on an expedition to Antarctica himself but missed joining the Great U. S. Exploring Expedition of 1838 – 1842, even though that venture was a result of his agitation.

The traditional county of Tipperary was split into two judicial counties ( or ridings ) following the establishment of assize courts in 1838.

County Tipperary was split into North and South Ridings in 1838.

However the Jamaican slaves bound to their former owners ' service, albeit with a guarantee of rights, until 1838 under what was called the Apprenticeship System.

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.

British concern over Russian advances in Central Asia and growing influence in Persia culminated in two Anglo-Afghan wars and " The Siege of Herat " 1837 – 1838, in which the Persians, trying to retake Afghanistan and throw out the British and Russians, sent armies into the country and fought the British mostly around and in the city of Herat.

The first telegram in the United States was sent by Morse on 11 January 1838, across two miles ( 3 km ) of wire at Speedwell Ironworks near Morristown, New Jersey.

When Dingane sent an impi ( armed force ) of around twelve thousand Zulu warriors to attack the local contingent of Voortrekkers in response, the Voortrekkers defended themselves at a battle at Nacome River ( called the Battle of Blood River ) on 16 December 1838 where the vastly outnumbered Voortrekker contingent defeated the Zulu warriors.

To reconcile their differences, Bhutan sent an emissary to Calcutta in 1787, and the British sent missions to Thimphu in 1815 and 1838.

He spent a year at Barmen, and in 1838, was sent by his father to work as a nonsalaried office clerk at a commercial house in Bremen.

In 1835, he was sent to Wybalenna settlement on Flinders Island where he remained until 1838.

Many members of the Cherokee Nation moved west, but the majority stayed until removed by Federal Troops sent into the area during the summer of 1838.

In the spring of 1838, Howe sent Sidney Gambia, an agent, to Enterprise to sell goods and develop the settlement.

Six Aboriginal prisoners were sent to Rottnest Island in August 1838 under the superintendence of Mr. Welch and a small military force: Helia for murder ; Buoyeen for assault ; Mollydobbin, Tyoocan, Goordap and Cogat for theft.

The sarcophagus was removed from the pyramid and was sent by ship to the British Museum in London, but the merchant ship Beatrice carrying it was lost after leaving port at Malta on October 13, 1838.

Bond Head was recalled in late 1837 and replaced with Sir George Arthur who arrived in Toronto in March 1838 and sent Lord Durham, who was assigned to report on the grievances among the colonists and find a way to appease them.

In 1838 his father, bent on a military career for his son, sent the 16-year-old Nekrasov to a military academy in St. Petersburg.

From August 1838 ten Aboriginal prisoners were sent to Rottnest Island ( known as Wadjemup to the Noongar, possibly meaning " place across the water ").

* In 1838, half dollar dies were sent to a branch mint for the first time, when 20 were struck at the New Orleans Mint.

On April 12, 1838, a church court excommunicated Cowdery after he failed to appear at a hearing on his membership and sent a letter resigning from the Church instead.

In 1838, Harriet and her brother Lyman were sent from Hawaii to be taken in by industrialist Samuel Williston so that they could be schooled at Williston Seminary in Easthampton.

The notable British Whig politician John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, was sent to the Canadas in 1838 to investigate and report on the causes of the rebellions of 1837 – 38.

In 1838, this petition was sent to the state legislature in spite of it only having five names.

In 1838 the Presbyterian Board of Missions, sent the Reverend Peter Dougherty ( 1805 – 1894 ) to establish the mission, now known as Old Mission, for which the peninsula would eventually become known.

Polding requested a community of nuns be sent to the colony and five Irish Sisters of Charity arrived in 1838.

In 1838 he was one of the party sent from Cape Colony to occupy Port Natal on behalf of Britain.

During the Mormon War of 1838, Price served as a member of a delegation sent from Chariton County, Missouri to investigate reported disturbances between Latter-day Saints and anti-Mormon mobs operating in the western part of the state.

Following the adoption of the address to the governor in 1845, the Draper-Viger government set up, on November 24, a commission enquire into the claims the inhabitants of Lower Canada had sent since 1838, to determine those that were justified and provide an estimate of the amount to be paid.