Johnston was to provide the defense of the Texas border against Mexican invasion, and in 1839 conducted a campaign against Indians in northern Texas.

One of the persistent myths of baseball history is that Doubleday invented the game in 1839, although he was in West Point at the time.

The committee's final report, on December 30, 1907, stated, in part, that " the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence obtainable to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.

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.

In 1839, Johnson entered the race for re-election to his House seat, initially as a Whig ; when another Whig entry arose, to enhance his position in the campaign, he ran as a Democrat and was elected to his second, non-consecutive term in the Tennessee House.

" The project, later called the Mills Commission, concluded that " Base Ball had its origins in the United States " and " the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence available to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, N. Y., in 1839.

In 1839, a year after leaving the school and aged 19, she was seeking a teaching position.

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 Tonga, the Vava ' u Code ( 1839 ) was inspired by Methodist missionary teachings, and was a form of blue law.

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

As early as 1839 Russell had adopted the name Liberal Party, but in reality the party was a loose coalition of Whigs in the House of Lords and Radicals in the Commons.

September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914 ) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist, sometimes known as " the father of pragmatism ".

A census was taken in the Ottoman Empire 1831-38 by Sultan Mahmud II ( 1808 – 1839 ) as a part of the reform movement Tanzimat.

In Aberdeen, Scotland, the shipbuilders Alexander Hall and Sons developed the " Aberdeen " clipper bow in the late 1830s: the first was the Scottish Maid launched in 1839.

It was Rochet d ' Hericourt's exploration into Shoa ( 1839 – 42 ) that marked the beginning of French interest in the Djiboutian coast of the Red Sea.

The Danish crime story The Rector of Veilbye by Steen Steensen Blicher was written in 1829, and the Norwegian crime novel Mordet på Maskinbygger Rolfsen (" The Murder of Engine Maker Rolfsen ") by Maurits Hansen was published in 1839.

They city was incorporated on January 25, 1839.

The establishment of Davenport as a political and government unit came in 1839, three years after the city was settled.

The city was incorporated as a result of a resolution by Iowa Representative Jonathan W. Parker by special charter in the Iowa Territory on January 25, 1839.

He took the habit of a Friar Preacher at Rome ( 1839 ), and the province of France was canonically erected in 1850.

Also in 1839, the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque was published in two volumes, though he made little money off of it and it received mixed reviews.

Edvard Munch was related to painter Jacob Munch ( 1776 – 1839 ) and historian Peter Andreas Munch ( 1810 – 1863 ).

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.

The area outside of Westport Landing was renamed the " Town of Kansas ," after the local Kanza Native Americans, in 1839.

When originally formed in 1838, the county was named Roberts County, after settler Hiram Roberts ; it was renamed in 1839 for James Buchanan, then a U. S. Senator and later President of the United States.

Originally known as Ingle Mills, it was renamed by resident Tom Carroll for unknown reasons in honor of Nauvoo, Illinois, a city founded by Mormon prophet Joseph Smith in 1839.

Lewisport was formerly called " Little Yellow Banks ," and was renamed Lewisport in 1839 in honor of John Lewis, one of the first permanent settlers of the area.

After Walton Township was organized in 1839, the post office was renamed Walton on December 31, 1840, and operated until August 17, 1849.

In 1839, Henry Hurd had the town renamed Henrietta, after his home town of Henrietta, New York.

In 1839, Hoxie's Settlement became incorporated and renamed the village of Romeo.

The town was later renamed Manchester then changed to Yazoo City in 1839.

Laid out under the name of Waterford in 1833, it was renamed Uhrichsville in 1839 after Michael Uhrich, a local mill operator.

The town was renamed Austin, and by October 1839 all of the records and employees were transferred from Houston to Austin.

Sydenham Public School, Kingston, Ontario which has operated as an educational facility since its construction in 1853 as the Kingston County Grammar School, was renamed in the 1890s for Lord Sydenham, governor general of British North America from 1839 to 1841.

She was ordered in 1833, renamed HMS Royal Frederick in 1839, then in 1860, before being launched later that year.

In 1870, Whig reporter William Rule ( 1839 – 1928 ) launched the Knoxville Chronicle ( later renamed Knoxville Journal ), which is often considered the " successor " to the Whig.

In Australia, for example, the first mechanics ' institute appeared in Hobart in 1827, followed by the Sydney Mechanics ' School of Arts in 1833, Newcastle School of Arts in 1835, then the Melbourne Mechanics ' Institute established in 1839 ( renamed The Melbourne Athenaeum in 1873 ).

From 1839 until 1849, Hastings County was renamed Victoria District after Queen Victoria.

Over the following decade, he published a large number of works, including essays and articles, his first editions of the Moldavian chroniclers, as well as other books and articles, while founding a succession of short-lived periodicals: Alăuta Românească ( 1838 ), Foaea Sătească a Prinţipatului Moldovei ( 1839 ), Dacia Literară ( 1840 ), Arhiva Românească ( 1840 ), Calendar pentru Poporul Românesc ( 1842 ), Propăşirea ( renamed Foaie Ştiinţifică şi Literară, 1843 ), and several almanacs.

Originally called Irvine Settlement, the village was renamed Elora when the post office was established in 1839.

Its first commander was Lt. Col. James Bankhead, and it is variously reported that the fort was initially known as Fort Dallas or Fort Bankhead, but it was eventually renamed Fort Russell for Captain Samuel L. Russell, who was killed when the Seminoles ambushed two boats on the Miami River in February 1839.

In 1839, Joseph Smith relocated his followers — the Mormons — from a hostile environment in Missouri to Commerce, Illinois which he renamed Nauvoo.

Instead of returning home directly, Southern Cross sailed south until it reached the Great Ice Barrier, discovered by Sir James Clark Ross during his 1839 – 43 voyage and later renamed in his honour.

On 6 October 1839 Debendranath Tagore, son of ( Prince ) Dwarkanath Tagore, established Tattvaranjini Sabha which was shortly thereafter renamed the Tattwabodhini ( Truth-seekers ) Sabha.

The site was later renamed Linnville, and grew to a population of 200 by 1839.

*, a 12-gun ordered as HMS Dove in 1839, renamed Kangaroo in 1843 and eventually launched in 1852.