* 1839 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.

In 1839, Canadian-born Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract, and the next year formed the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company to operate the line's four pioneer paddle steamers on the Liverpool – Halifax – Boston route.

Over Great Western's protests, in May 1839 Parry accepted Cunard's tender of £ 55, 000 for a three-ship Liverpool – Halifax service with an extension to Boston and a supplementary service to Montreal.

With the arrival of the Boston and Maine Railroad in 1839, the population center moved gradually southward toward the depot.

in print as 1839, in the March 23 edition of the Boston Morning Post ( an American newspaper ).

President Martin Van Buren assigned Brigadier General Winfield Scott, then involved in the Cherokee relocation, to the conflict area ; he arrived in Boston in early March 1839.

This building being later found unsuitable, Colonel Perkins consented to its sale, and in 1839 the institution was moved to the former Mount Washington House Hotel in South Boston.

The name was changed to the Andover and Haverhill Railroad on April 18, 1837, reflecting plans to build further to Haverhill, Massachusetts ( opened later that year ), and yet further to Portland, Maine, with the renaming to the Boston and Portland Railroad on April 3, 1839, opening to the New Hampshire state line in 1840.

The Boston and Maine Railroad was chartered in New Hampshire on June 27, 1835, and the Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts Railroad was incorporated March 12, 1839, in Maine, both companies continuing the proposed line to South Berwick, Maine.

Of his numerous writings, the best known were Lectures on the Science of Human Life ( Boston, 1839 ), of which several editions of the two-volume work were printed in the United States and sales in England were widespread, and Lectures to Young Men on Chastity.

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* The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, with a critical introduction ( 5 vols., Boston, 1839 )

On November 6, 1839, Fuller held the first of her " conversations ", discussions among local women who met in the Boston home of the Peabodys.

It was founded in Boston, Massachusetts on November 27, 1839, and is the second oldest, continuously operating professional society in the United States.

The first line of the original system to open was the Hartford and New Haven Railroad, opened from Hartford to New Haven, with steamship connections to New York in 1839, and to Springfield, with rail connections to Worcester and Boston, in 1844.

Between 1839 and 1858 she edited The Liberty Bell, an annual anti-slavery gift book that was sold at the Boston Bazaar.

His first ideal work was a group of “ Orpheus and Cerberus ,” executed in 1839, and purchased, some years later, for the Boston Athenaeum, and now displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

In 1839, the Harvard Corporation voted to appoint William Cranch Bond, a prominent Boston clockmaker, as " Astronomical Observer to the University " ( at no salary ).

He studied at Boston Latin School and then at his father's urging at Union College in Schenectady, which he entered as a sophomore and where he completed a BA in 1837 and to which he returned for his MA after taking a Law degree at Harvard in 1839, traveling in Germany and Scandinavia, and making the first of his botanical studies in the White Mountains.

Due to her father's death, the Osgoods returned to Boston in 1839.

Armstrong continued in his successful printing business, being elected Mayor of Boston in 1836 and to the Massachusetts Senate in 1839

( English translations by Margaret Fuller, Boston, 1839, and John Oxenford, London, 1850.

On September 30, 1839, Hoar passed the bar and had received a LL. B degree from Harvard, where upon he practiced law in 1840 in Concord and Boston.

Francis and Emma had other children: Captain John Brooke Johnson ( 1823 – 1868 ) ( later Brooke Brooke ), Mary Anna Johnson ( b. 1824 ), Harriet Helena Johnson ( b. 1826 ), Charlotte Frances Johnson ( b. 1828 ), Captain ( William ) Frederic Johnson ( b. 1830 ), Emma Lucy Johnson ( b. 1832 ), Margaret Henrietta Johnson ( 1834 – 1845 ), Georgianna Brooke Johnson ( 1836 – 1854 ), James Stuart Johnson ( 1839 – 1840 ), and Henry Stuart Johnson ( b. 1841 ).

On November 6, 1839, she was one of the local women who attended the first " conversation " organized by women's rights advocate Margaret Fuller.

It remained in abeyance for 413 years until 1839, when Thomas Stonor, 3rd Baron Camoys successfully claimed the barony as a descendant of Margaret de Camoys.

He was married on October 15, 1860 at Newport, Rhode Island, to Margaret Mason Perry, who was born on February 26, 1839 in Newport, Rhode Island, and died on May 2, 1925.

On 8 July 1839 he married to Margaret Scott, with whom he had ten children ( though two died in infancy ) including the author Juliana Horatia Ewing and the officer of arms and composer Alfred Scott-Gatty.

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On October 20, 1839, Margaret Fuller officially accepted the editorship, though she was unable to begin work on the publication until the first week of 1840.

In 1839, Mr. Fuller set up a post office in his home, naming it Salubrity Post Office.

The Greene Street School where Fuller taught from 1837 to 1839

Fuller accepted Emerson's offer to edit The Dial on October 20, 1839, though she did not begin work until the first week of 1840.

Hawthorne and his then-fiancée Sophia had first met Fuller in October 1839.

Ripley served as the managing editor and Fuller accepted the editor position on October 20, 1839, though she was unable to begin work on the publication until the first week of 1840.

The College began with 21 students in January 1839.

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.

In 1839, the Mormons converted a swampland on the banks of the Mississippi River into Nauvoo, Illinois and began construction of the Nauvoo Temple.

Glaciation took place repeatedly during the Quaternary Ice Age – a term coined by Schimper in 1839 that began with the start of the Quaternary about 2. 58 Mya and continues to the present-day.

In 1839 the British government began a programme of recruiting Indian labourers ( or coolies ) in Calcutta to be sent to Trinidad and British Guiana, now Guyana.

In 1839, Legrand made his debut at the Funambules as the lover Leander in the pantomimes, and when he began appearing as Pierrot, in 1845, he brought a new sensibility to the character.

Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, wealthy southern planters seeking to escape the heat began to build summer cottages on Bellevue Avenue such as Kingscote ( 1839 ).

The opening of the Grand Junction Canal ( later renamed Grand Union Canal ) as the major freight transport route between London and Birmingham in 1796 began a commercial boom, intensified by the arrival of Brunel's Great Western Railway in 1839, leading to th of brick factories, flour mills and chemical plants which formed the town's commercial base.

Permanent historic occupation of the islands began in 1839, when the United States Army, led by General Zachary Taylor, established " Fort No. 4 ", which served as a depot and included a hospital, on Depot Key ( later known as Atsena Otie Key ) during the Second Seminole War.

In 1839, German and Dutch families began to move into the area as well.

Public schooling began in Sycamore as early as 1839, with classes held in the first DeKalb County Courthouse, a log building across the street from the courthouse's current location.

Rapin Andrews began keeping meteorological records on July 17, 1839, and continued until his death 10 years later.

* The Woburn Sentinel newspaper began in 1839

The mill began operation in August 1839, making it the first commercial sawmill within Minnesota.

He and his brother George ( 1815-1889 ) were successful merchants in the town beginning in 1839 when they began operating the W. L.

In 1839, the Eastern Cherokees began moving into the Spavinaw area of Indian Territory.

The course of the Mole within the airport perimeter has been altered several times since commercial flights began in 1945, however the meanders visible on the 1839 tithe map on the 1. 5 km stretch immediately north of the runway were reinstated in 1999, in a £ 1. 2 million project to facilitate airport expansion.

Not long after the introduction of the Daguerreotype in 1839, photographers began assembling multiple images of a view into a single wide image.

Here Froude began to thrive personally and intellectually, motivated to succeed by a brief engagement in 1839 ( although this was broken off by the lady's father ).

The Army began the permanent structure of Fort Fairfield in April 1839 and that of Fort Kent in October 1839.

Captain Henry Miller Shreve began clearing the log jam in 1839.

The Tanzimat meaning reorganization of the Ottoman Empire, was a period of reformation that began in 1839 and ended with the First Constitutional Era in 1876.

Indeed, the highly original and influential American logician, Charles Sanders Peirce ( 1839 – 1914 ), wrote that his lifelong fascination with logic began when he read Whately's Elements of Logic as a 12 year old boy.