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.

Crowell became the first postmaster in 1838.

The main body of the church moved first to Kirtland, Ohio in the early 1830s, then to Missouri in 1838, where the 1838 Mormon War with other Missouri settlers ensued, culminating in adherents being expelled from the state under Missouri Executive Order 44 signed by the governor of Missouri.

61 Cygni is significant because Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel determined its parallax in 1838, the first star to have a known parallax.

), the first recorded occurrences of the relevant words were Tao 1736, Tau 1747, Taouism and Taouist 1838, Taoistic 1856, Tao-ism 1858, Taoism 1903 wrong, at least antedated by Balfour ( 1881 ), Daoism 1948, Dao and Daoist 1971.

However, the college did not hold its first class until 1838, until then operating sporadically due to financial difficulties.

The college however did not hold its first class until 1838, with the operation of the college itself being only intermittent and no degrees awarded at the college.

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

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 ".

* 1838: the first steamship purpose-built for regularly scheduled trans-Atlantic crossings enters service.

* 1838 – Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States

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.

In 1838, the political situation in Tennessee — where, in 1835, Democrats had lost the governorship for the first time in their party's history — persuaded Polk to return to help the party at home.

Grimm's monumental dictionary of the German Language, the Deutsches Wörterbuch, was started in 1838 and first published in 1854.

In 1837 he issued the " Prodrome " of a monograph on the recent and fossil Echinodermata, the first part of which appeared in 1838 ; in 1839 – 40 he published two quarto volumes on the fossil Echinoderms of Switzerland ; and in 1840 – 45 he issued his Etudes critiques sur les mollusques fossiles (" Critical Studies on Fossil Mollusks ").

Daguerre took the first ever photo of a person in 1838 when, while taking a daguerreotype of a Paris street, a pedestrian stopped for a shoe shine, long enough to be captured by the long exposure ( several minutes ).

The first city police services were established in Philadelphia in 1751, Richmond, Virginia in 1807, Boston in 1838, and New York in 1845.

In Australia the first police force having centralised command as well as jurisdiction over an entire colony was the South Australia Police, formed in 1838 under Henry Inman.

Proteins were first described by the Dutch chemist Gerardus Johannes Mulder and named by the Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius in 1838.

Born in the city of Málaga in the Andalusian region of Spain, he was the first child of Don José Ruiz y Blasco ( 1838 – 1913 ) and María Picasso y López.

Henry Bessemer's first successful invention ( 1838 ) was a method of compressing graphite powder into solid graphite thus allowing the waste from sawing to be reused.

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.

* Falco peregrinus anatum, described by Bonaparte in 1838, is known as the American Peregrine Falcon, or " Duck Hawk "; its scientific name means " Duck Peregrine Falcon ".

His wife died of tuberculosis in 1838, after which he secured a post in the General Register Office for England and Wales as the first compiler of scientific abstracts, on an initial salary of £ 350 per year.

In 1838, it was placed in the genus Cardinalis and given the scientific name Cardinalis virginianus, which means " Virginia Cardinal ".

In 1838, he was the leader of a scientific expedition to Spitsbergen.

In 1838 he became American consul, and subsequently representative and correspondent of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington and several other leading American literary and scientific institutions.

Following the inception of Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection in 1838, the development of Darwin's theory to explain the " mystery of mysteries " of how new species originated was his " prime hobby " in the background to his main occupation of publishing the scientific results of the Beagle voyage.

In addition to his scholarly papers published in scientific journals, he made contributions to Salomon Stricker's ( 1834 – 1898 ) Handbuch der Lehre von den Geweben des Menschen und der Thiere ( 1872 ) and to Ludimar Hermann's ( 1838 – 1914 ) Handbuch der Physiologie ( 1879 ).

Lean and short of stature, he studied in a Catholic scientific-oriented institute near Lucca, in Tuscany, and became a novitiate in Florence in 1838 of the Piarist Fathers or Scolopi, who were known for being open to scientific study.

The Club was at first scientific and published the Entomological Magazine ( from September 1832 to October, 1838 ) but later evolved into a dining club which it remained until 1933.

From his father's papers, he edited the posthumous work Litterarische Zustände und Zeitgenossen ( Literary circumstances and contemporaries, 2 vols., Leipzig, 1838 ).

At the death in 1838 of François Salvolini, Champollion's former student and assistant, this and other missing drafts were found among his papers ( incidentally demonstrating that Salvolini's own publication on the stone, in 1837, was plagiarism ).

The Times is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, including The Times of India ( 1838 ), The Straits Times ( 1845 ), The New York Times ( 1851 ), The Irish Times ( 1859 ), the Los Angeles Times ( 1881 ), The Seattle Times ( 1891 ), The Daily Times ( Malawi ) ( 1900 ), The Canberra Times ( 1926 ), The Times ( Malta ) ( 1935 ) and The Times of Israel ( Israel ) ( 2012 ).

He published more than 100 research papers and influenced many students who later became distinguished botanists and microbiologists such as Sergei Winogradsky ( 1856 – 1953 ), William Gilson Farlow ( 1844 – 1919 ), and Pierre-Marie-Alexis Millardet ( 1838 – 1902 ).

The option to revoke publishing licenses was retained until the late rule of Charles XIV John and used widely against Liberal papers such as Aftonbladet, which saw its license revoked ten times in 1838 alone.

G Ripley, Boston, 1835 and 1838 ), a collection of fugitive papers in criticism and philosophy and history.

A few original papers appear in the Royal Irish Academy's Transactions ( 1824 ), in the Royal Society's Proceedings ( 1831 – 1836 ) and in the Astronomical Society's Monthly Notices ( 1852 – 1853 ); and two Reports to the British Association on railway constants ( 1838, 1841 ) are from his pen.

In a couple of papers in 1838 and 1839 he proved the first class number formula, for quadratic forms ( later refined by his student Kronecker ).

The Proceedings have appeared since 1838: they publish the papers delivered at the biannual meetings of the Society.

From 1838 to 1840, he was editor of The Pennsylvania Freeman in Philadelphia, one of the leading antislavery papers in the North, formerly known as the National Enquirer.

He launched out on his own with the New Sporting Magazine in 1831, contributing the comic papers which appeared as Jorrocks ' Jaunts and Jollities in 1838.

Allen also brought out two volumes of Picturesque Views on Ascension Island ( 1838 ) and the River Niger ( 1840 ), with papers in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, vols.

In 1837 he visited the United States and acquired there the materials for papers on the thermal springs and the geology of North America, read in 1838 before the Ashmolean Society and the British Association ( and published in 1839 ).

Thomas Creevey ( March 1768 – February 5, 1838 ) was an English politician who is known for his papers, which were published in 1903.