A 1996 British Journal for the History of Science article cites James F. Donnelly for mentioning a 1839 reference to chemical engineering in relation to the production of sulfuric acid.

The first British person to see Darwin harbour appears to have been Lieutenant John Lort Stokes of HMS Beagle on 9 September 1839.

The first Anglo-Afghan War ( 1839 – 1842 ) resulted in the destruction of a British army ; it is remembered as an example of the ferocity of Afghan resistance to foreign rule.

Levinge, a British Army officer who had been in New Brunswick during Campbell ’ s time, provides a written account of " hockey on ice " on Chippewa Creek a tributary of the Niagara River in 1839.

* 1899 – Alfred Sisley, British impressionist painter ( b. 1839 )

* 1839 – In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1. 2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.

* 1839 – The British East India Company captures Aden.

In 1826, the kingdom was claimed by Dost Mohammad Khan and taken from him by the British Indian Army in 1839, who installed the unpopular Shah Shuja.

After sending a couple of exploratory missions to the area, the British East India Company coaptured the town when HMS Wellesley anchored off Manora island on 1 February 1839.

The British East India Company captured Karachi on February 3, 1839 and started developing it as a major port.

The discontent grew to open rebellion, fed by both Ottoman and British money and support: Bashir II fled, the Ottoman empire reasserted control and Mehmed Hüsrev Pasha, whose sole term as Grand Vizier ran from 1839 to 1841, appointed another member of the Shihab family, who styled himself Bashir III.

* George Bradshaw, including maps of the British railway network, first published in 1839

* Nemesis ( 1839 ), a British warship of the East India Company, used in the First Opium War

During the First Opium War ( 1839 – 1842 ), British forces occupied the city.

Though the surviving manuscript dates from the fourteenth century, the first published version of the poem did not appear until as late as 1839, when Sir Frederic Madden of the British Museum recognized the poem as worth reading.

In 1839, Jardine successfully persuaded the British Foreign Minister, Lord Palmerston, to wage war on China, giving a full detailed plan for war, detailed strategic maps, battle strategies, the indemnifications and political demands from China and even the number of troops and warships needed.

The British interest in reducing pirate attacks on British merchants lead to their creating a protectorate over the town of Aden in 1839, and adding the surrounding lands over the following years.

The Royal Marines, who had been the first British troops to occupy Aden in 1839, were the last to leave.

* June 2 – Redvers Buller, British general and Victoria Cross recipient ( b. 1839 )

** Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, British fossil collector ( d. 1839 )

It was this action that technically caused the British to enter the war, as they were still bound by the 1839 agreement to protect Belgium in the event of a war.

In 1839, the British adventurer James Brooke arrived in Borneo and helped the Sultan put down this rebellion.

* 1839 – The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift " free to the world ".

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

Among the most important figures of the federal era include the first democratically elected president in Honduras, Dionisio de Herrera, a lawyer, whose government, begun in 1824 established the first constitution, Gen. Francisco Morazán, Federal President 1830-1834 and 1835 – 1839, whose figure embodies the ideal American Unionist, and José Cecilio del Valle, editor of the Declaration of Independence signed in Guatemala on September 15, 1821 and Foreign Minister of Mexico in 1823.

His works, the greater part of which originally appeared in Crelle's Journal, were edited by Bernt Michael Holmboe and published in 1839 by the Norwegian government, and a more complete edition by Ludwig Sylow and Sophus Lie was published in 1881.

The South Australia Police was formed later that year to protect the community and enforce government regulations and the first gaol, a two roomed hut, was opened on 1 January 1839.

In May 1839, he was offered another chance to form a government, this time by the new monarch, Queen Victoria.

For example, the government suppressed the Greek-Catholic Churches in Ukraine and Belarus in 1839.

Their languages predominated, so much so that the Danish government, in 1839, declared that slave children must attend school in the English language.

The Qing government was obliged to pay the British government six million silver dollars for the opium that had been confiscated by Lin Zexu in 1839 ( Article IV ), 3 million dollars in compensation for debts that the Hong merchants in Canton owed British merchants ( Article V ), and a further 12 million dollars in war reparations for the cost of the war ( VI ).

The reason why the Aube sailed ahead of the Comte-de-Paris was to ‘ gain time for fear the British might get the start of them ’ Yet the New Zealand Company's survey ship Tory had sailed from Plymouth on 12 May 1839, before Langlois and his associates had made their first approach to the French government, and as early as June the British Government was considering sending Captain William Hobson to act as Lieutenant-Governor over such parts of New Zealand as might be acquired from the Māori.

In 1839 the Mexican government granted the Rancho Novato to Fernando Feliz.

County government moved from Augusta, Kentucky to Woodward's Crossing in 1833 due to its more central location, although it did not become the official county seat until February 16, 1839.

For example, when the legislature of the Republic of Texas decided in 1839 to move the capital to the new site along the Colorado River, the functioning of the government required the rapid population of the town, which was named Austin.

His son Isidore ( 1805 – 68 ) formed a partnership with Daguerre after his father's death and was granted a government pension in 1839 in return for disclosing the technical details of Nicéphore's heliogravure process.

He managed in 1839 to get the government of France to purchase his invention on behalf of the people of France.

In the preface to his Gottesdienstliche Vorträge ( Frankfurt ( Oder ), 1839 ) he appealed both to the government to accord the modern rabbinate the dignity due to it, and to the congregations to cease regarding the rabbi as an expert in Jewish casuistry mainly charged with the duty of answering she ' elot ( ritual questions ) and inquiries concerning dietary laws.

In the spring of 1839, the government approved the scheme.

When Maastricht stayed Dutch in 1839, it became the permanent seat of its provincial government within the Netherlands, also called Limburg.

His detailed and famous Report on the Affairs of British North America ( 1839 ) recommended a modified form of responsible government and a legislative union of Upper Canada, Lower Canada and the Maritime Provinces.

He took great interest in the struggle of the Greeks for independence, and strongly favoured the appointment of the notorious J. F. Strauss to the chair of dogmatic theology at Zürich, which led to the disturbance of September 6, 1839 and the fall of the liberal government.

In 1839 the government of Upper Canada approved the purchase of shares in the canal company in response to the company's continuing financial problems in the face of the continental financial panic of 1837.

In 1839 and 1841, uprisings against the government broke out.

Early in 1839 they discovered that although they now complied with the conditions the Government had laid down for the old New Zealand Association the government was not prepared to honour its promises.