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.

Sir Charles Wheatstone discovered its principle and applied it as early as 1838 to the construction of a cumbersome but effective instrument, in which the binocular pictures were made to combine by means of mirrors.

Severn made a sketch of Trelawny in 1838.

The first direct measurement of the distance to a star ( 61 Cygni at 11. 4 light-years ) was made in 1838 by Friedrich Bessel using the parallax technique.

At the Speedwell Ironworks in Morristown, New Jersey, Morse and Vail made the first public demonstration of the electric telegraph on January 11, 1838.

Herschel returned to England in 1838, was created a baronet, of Slough in the County of Buckingham, and published Results of Astronomical Observations made at the Cape of Good Hope in 1847.

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.

Aijalon's identification with present-day Yalo was made by Edward Robinson during his travels in Palestine in 1838.

The earliest detailed surveys in the United States were made by the “ Topographical Bureau of the Army ,” formed during the War of 1812 ,. which became the Corps of Topographical Engineers in 1838.

Originally a part of Catahoula and Ouachita parishes, Caldwell Parish was established within its present boundaries on March 6, 1838, with earlier settlements recorded to have been made soon after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.

Lieutenant George Grey travelled through the area in 1838 and made note of the remarkable caves he found in the area.

Elias P. Gilman petitioned the state and had surveys of Gilman made in 1838.

Among the friends he made here was the future Czech revolutionary poet Karel Havlíček, whose departure for Prague in 1838 may have influenced Smetana's own desire to experience life in the capital.

As an important market town, St Ives always needed large numbers of pubs, 64 in 1838 ( 1 for every 55 inhabitants ), 60 in 1861, 48 in 1865 and 45 in 1899 ( though only 5 of these made the owners living ).

Modest dividends were paid to shareholders from 1824, and the total traffic carried in 1838 was 181, 708 tons, on which profits of £ 6, 835 were made.

" Inspired by prior wedding statements made by John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill in 1851, and by Theodore Dwight Weld and Angelina Grimké in 1838, the two wrote up a tract they called " Marriage Protest " and printed a number of copies to hand out at their wedding.

The first private land claim at the falls was made by Franklin Steele in 1838 — though he didn't obtain financing for development until 1847, in the form of $ 12, 000 for a 9 / 10 stake in the property.

Between 1834 and 1838, John Frederick William Herschel made observations of the southern skies with his reflector from the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope.

He developed a pyrheliometer and made, between 1837 and 1838, the first quantitative measurements of Solar constant.

In 1838 the London and Birmingham Railway was constructed around the town, and in 1840 the Midland Counties Railway made a junction with the London and Birmingham at Rugby.

In probate Caroline's son Sam produced a valid marriage license showing that Caroline and Samuel Colt were married in Scotland in 1838 and that this document made him a rightful heir to part of Colt's estate, if not to the Colt Manufacturing Company.

When his father was made Marquess of Normanby in 1838, he became known by the courtesy title Earl of Mulgrave.

During these years Droysen studied classical antiquity ; he published a translation of Aeschylus in 1832 and a paraphrase of Aristophanes ( 1835 – 1838 ), but the work by which he made himself known as a historian was his Geschichte Alexanders des Grossen ( History of Alexander the Great ), ( Berlin, 1833 and other editions ), a book that long remained the best work on Alexander the Great.

In 1838 he was transferred to the council of state as master of requests, which post he held through the revolution of 1848 and the coup d ' état till 1860, when he was made senator — a paid office, it must be remembered, and, in effect, a lucrative sinecure.

The first successful measurement of stellar parallax was made by Friedrich Bessel in 1838 for the star 61 Cygni using a Fraunhofer heliometer at Königsberg Observatory.

The first successful measurements of stellar parallax were made by Friedrich Bessel in 1838 for the star 61 Cygni using a heliometer.