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

The first female student in Sweden was Betty Pettersson ( 1838 – 1885 ), who had already worked as a private tutor for several years when she took the " studentexamen " in 1871.

In Majorca one can still visit the ( then abandoned ) Carthusian monastery of Valldemossa, where she spent the winter of 1838 – 39 with Chopin and her children .< ref >

Her public debut at the piano ( and only known public performance ) came in 1838, when she played her brother's Piano Concerto No. 1.

Grace Darling was the daughter of Longstone lighthouse-keeper, William Darling, and on September 7, 1838, at the age of 22 years, she and her father rescued nine people in a strong gale and thick fog from the wreck of the Forfarshire, which had run aground on Harker rock.

At Albany, New York, 1798, she married William Hallowell ( 1771 – 1838 ), who had purchased his partnership into the North West Company from Henry that year.

Colt historian William Edwards wrote that Samuel Colt had married Caroline Henshaw ( who later married his brother, John ) in Scotland in 1838 and that the son she bore later was Samuel Colt's and not his brother John's.

On May 29, 1838, 13 raiders, mostly Canadian refugees from the 1837 rebellion, led by " Pirate " Bill Johnston, retaliated by capturing, looting, and burning the British steamer Sir Robert Peel while she was in U. S. waters.

In 1838 she was also elected as a member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Here she began the travelogue of her journey, Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, which was published in Britain in 1838.

Aunt Branwell also gave them books and subscribed to Fraser's Magazine, less interesting than Blackwood's, but, nevertheless, providing plenty of material for discussion. Portrait of James Sheridan Knowles, in Fraser's Magazine 1838 She was a generous person who dedicated her life to her nieces and nephew, neither marrying nor returning to visit her relations in Cornwall, and she provided the funds for the project in Brussels.

These have included the Polish composer Frédéric Chopin and the French writer and pioneering feminist George Sand ( who wrote a notable account of A Winter in Majorca, describing their 1838 – 39 visit and praising the island's natural beauty but criticizing what she perceived as the prejudice and vices of the natives ).

When she gave birth to another child, Oliver ( a brother to William ), out of wedlock in 1838, most of her supporters abandoned her.

She headed the Troy Female Seminary until she remarried in 1838 and left the school in the hands of her son and daughter-in-law.

She married Abraham Van Buren on November 27, 1838, in Wedgefield, and the following New Year's Day, she assumed the duties of hostess at the White House.

Auditioning in March 1838, she started at the Théâtre-Français in Pierre Corneille's Horace at the age of 17.

From 1838 in 1842, she lived in a third-floor apartment in Paris's Galerie Véro-Dodat.

In 1838 she and her husband went to Italy, where she spent much of the rest of her life.

She received an inheritance of 74. 25 gulden, which she left invested in the Orphans ' Fund until 1838.

In 1838, while in England, she published her collection of poems A Wreath of Flowers from New England which included Elfrida, a dramatic poem in five acts.

Mrs. Grundy became Head Housekeeper on 22 April 1838, a year after Queen Victoria ascended to the throne, and she served in that position until 1863 when she retired.

In fact, in an article published in The Times in 1838, countering a claim that she was a " radical ", Caroline stated: " The natural position of woman is inferiority to man.

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.