William Baker Ashton was appointed Governor of the temporary goal in 1839, and in 1840 George Strickland Kingston was commissioned to design Adelaide's new Gaol.

* 1754 – William Murdoch, Scottish engineer and inventor, created gas lighting ( d. 1839 )

On her return to Haworth, she met William Weightman ( 1814 – 1842 ), her father's new curate, who started work in the parish in August 1839.

In the United States the first water caterpillar was patented in 1839 by William Leavenworth of New York.

** William Erasmus Darwin ( 1839 – 1914 ), eldest son of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

William Grove produced the first fuel cell in 1839.

William Smith ( 1769 – 1839 ), an English canal engineer, observed that rocks of different ages ( based on the law of superposition ) preserved different assemblages of fossils, and that these assemblages succeeded one another in a regular and determinable order.

Welsh Physicist William Grove developed the first crude fuel cells in 1839.

Sketch of William Grove's 1839 fuel cell

Based on this work, the first fuel cell was demonstrated by Welsh scientist and barrister Sir William Robert Grove in the February 1839 edition of the Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science and later sketched, in 1842, in the same journal.

William Smith ( 1769 – 1839 ) drew some of the first geological maps and began the process of ordering rock strata ( layers ) by examining the fossils contained in them.

* 1839 – William H. Seward, Jr., American general ( d. 1920 )

* Sir William Reid ( b. April 25, 1791, Kinglassie-d. October 31, 1858, London, England ), governor of Bermuda ( 1839 – 46 ), Barbados ( 1846 – 48 ), and Malta ( 1851 – 58 ); knighted 1851

In 1839 William I became a party to the Treaty of London.

The lyrics written in 1841 describe a then – disunited Germany with the river as its western boundary, where King William I of the Netherlands had joined the German Confederation with his Duchy of Limburg in 1839.

* 1774 – Lord William Bentinck, English soldier and statesman, 14th Governor-General of India ( d. 1839 )

In late 1839, the Whigs held their first national convention and nominated William Henry Harrison as their presidential candidate.

Photography was realized in 1839 by Louis Daguerre in France and William Fox Talbot in the UK.

Hence, William Hallowes Miller in 1839 was able to give each face a unique label of three small integers, the Miller indices which are still used today for identifying crystal faces.

* August 21 – William Murdoch, Scottish inventor ( d. 1839 )

* March 23 – William Smith, English geologist and cartographer ( d. 1839 )

In the same year on 9 June William I became also the Grand Duke of Luxembourg and after 1839 he was furthermore the Duke of Limburg.

In 1839, William was forced to end the war.

The Afan was diverted and a dock was opened in 1839 named for the Talbot family, local landowners who were related to the pioneer photographer, William Henry Fox Talbot.

William I, King of the Netherlands, would refuse to recognize a Belgian state until 1839, when he had to yield under pressure by the Treaty of London.

The county commissioners eventually established the townships, including Union ( 1820 ), Darby ( 1820 ), Mill Creek ( 1820 ), Jerome ( 1821 ), Paris ( 1821 ), Liberty ( 1822 ), Leesburg ( 1825 ), Allen ( 1827 ), Jackson ( 1829 ), York ( 1834 ), Washington ( 1836 ), Dover ( 1839 ), Claibourne ( 1834 ), and Taylor ( 1849 ), while they designated Marysville as the county seat.

Two additions were made to Black Hawk, by William P. Records, Daniel A. Allen and Christopher M. Allen, May 15, 1839, consisting of sixteen lots on the north of the original town plat, and eight lots on the south.

It was first settled by Allen Atkins in 1837 and William Atkins in 1839.

Among those interred there are Stephen Allen, mayor ( 1821 – 1824 ); James Lenox, whose personal library became a part of the New York Public Library ; Isaac Varian, mayor ( 1839 – 1841 ); Marinus Willet, Revolutionary War hero ; and Preserved Fish, a well-known New York merchant.

* Edward P. Allen ( 1839 – 1909 ), politician from the U. S. state of Michigan

Edward Payson Allen ( October 28, 1839 – November 25, 1909 ) was a politician from the U. S. state of Michigan.

* Meriel ( 1839 – 72 ), married ( 1862 ), Allen, 6th Earl Bathurst ( 1832 – 1892 ), of Cirencester.

In 1839, with Benjamin Latrobe, John Jervis, J Edgar Thomson, Claudius Crozet, Horatio Allen, Henry Campbell, and others he helped organize the American Society of Civil Engineers in Philadelphia ; although this organization languished he helped form a new AS of CE in New York in 1852.

* Thomas Newton Allen ( 1839 –?

* John Allen ( religious writer ) ( 1771 – 1839 ), English dissenting layman and religious writer

On 29 January 1839, Charles married Emma at Maer, Staffordshire in an Anglican ceremony arranged to also suit the Unitarians, conducted by the vicar, their cousin John Allen Wedgwood.

There on June 11, 1839 he married Caroline M. Allen, who was ten years his junior.

The town became a regional transportation hub in 1839 with the arrival of the Michigan Central Railroad, and a north — south railway connecting Ann Arbor to Toledo and other markets to the south was established in 1878.

In 1839, the Saints converted a swampland on the banks of the Mississippi River into Nauvoo, Illinois, which became the church's new headquarters.

Shah Shujah Durrani | Shah Shujah became the last Durrani dynasty | Durrani ruler, who first reigned between 1803 and 1809, and again from 1839 to 1842.

In the summer of 1839, Poe became assistant editor of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine.

Leaving Congress in 1839, Polk became a candidate in the Tennessee gubernatorial election, defeating the incumbent Whig, Newton Cannon by about 2, 500 votes, out of about 105, 000.

A terminus of the first German long distance railway to Dresden ( the capital of Saxony ) in 1839, Leipzig became a hub of Central European railway traffic, with Leipzig Central Station the largest terminal station by area in Europe.

Burial Hill ( now Flagstaff railway station ) became its home ground in January 1839, however, the area was already set aside for Botanical Gardens and the club was moved on in October 1846, to an area on the south bank of the Yarra about where the Herald and Weekly Times building is today.

In 1839, Texas became the first nation in the world to enact a homestead exemption under which a person's primary residence could not be seized by creditors.

On a subsequent visit to Paris in 1839, Morse met Louis Daguerre and became interested in the latter's daguerreotype — the first practical means of photography.

When the former Fort Dearborn Reserve became part of the townsite in 1839, the plan of the area east of Michigan Avenue south of Randolph was marked " Public ground.

Naples became the first city on the Italian peninsula to have a railway in 1839, there were many factories throughout the kingdom making it a highly important trade centre.

Following the massacre in 1839 a police station was established and the name of the settlement became Broken River.

After his death in Savoy, his tomb became the object of a cult, and he was eventually beatified in 1839.

In 1839, while reflecting on his visit to the United States, Louis Philippe explained in a letter to Guizot that his three years there had a large influence on his later political beliefs and judgments when he became king.

He became an apothecary himself, and in 1839, at the age of 20, wrote his first work ( Heinrichs IV.

From 1838 to 1839, he was an assistant to Harvey Eginton, an architect in Worcester, where he became articled.

In 1839 the western part of Macon County became Cherokee County.

Although the city was occupied briefly in 1839 by the British during the First Afghan War, it was not until 1876 that Quetta became part of the British colonial empire, with Robert Sandeman being made the political leader for Balochistan.

Research is underway to determine the importance of an ancient trail that was noted by the crew of the 1839 re-survey of Township 17 north Range 2 west, which later became Beaverton Township.

In 1825, Cotman became an Associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours and was a frequent exhibitor until 1839.

After DuPage County was split from Cook County in 1839, Naper's Settlement became the DuPage county seat, a distinction it held until 1868.

Plainfield became incorporated as a town in 1839.

In 1839 it became the plantation of Wetmore Isle.