His story " The Fall of the House of Usher " ( 1839 ) explores these ' terrors of the soul ' while revisiting classic Gothic tropes of aristocratic decay, death, and madness.

Early in following year, while composing Elena da Feltre ( which premiered in January 1839 ), Mercadante wrote to Francesco Florimo laying out his ideas about how opera should be structured, following the " revolution " begun in his previous opera:

In 1838 and 1839 Peter Warren Dease and Thomas Simpson explored its southeast coast, while John Rae charted its entire south coast in 1851.

Journalist John L. O ' Sullivan, an influential advocate for Jacksonian democracy and a complex character described by Julian Hawthorne as " always full of grand and world-embracing schemes ", wrote an article in 1839, which, while not using the term " Manifest Destiny ", did predict a " divine destiny " for the United States based upon values such as equality, rights of conscience, and personal enfranchisement " to establish on earth the moral dignity and salvation of man ".

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.

He later died in 1839, and while Yatesville cemetery records do not show his burial, a lot bears his name.

The guild constitution of the city of Chur lasted until 1839, while in 1874 the Burgergemeinde was replaced by an Einwohnergemeinde.

The design changed considerably from what went before — the obverse bears the left-facing portrait of Queen Victoria, with the inscription, while the reverse bears a crown above the words with ( 1839 ) a rose with three leaves at the bottom of the coin, or ( 1842 and later ) a rose, thistle, and shamrock.

But in 1839, he contracted an eye disorder while studying the phenomena of color and vision, and, after much suffering, resigned.

Jack Sheppard was serially published in Bentley's Miscellany from January 1839 until February 1840 while Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist ran in the magazine.

Terry married again, in November 1877, to Charles Clavering Wardell Kelly ( 1839 – 1885 ), an actor / journalist whom she had met while appearing in Reade's plays, but Kelly and Terry separated in 1881.

Captain Mackay was head of the local militia, and was killed while surveying Itonia Scrub on March 20, 1839.

The community of Waddington formally established itself as an incorporated village in 1839, while still part of the Town of Madrid.

In 1839, while visiting Wilkesboro, North Carolina, the twins were attracted to the area and settled on a farm in nearby Traphill, becoming naturalized United States citizens.

He narrowly escaped death while on a surveying trip in late 1839.

Shah Shujah was proclaimed amir, and entered Kabul on 07 August, 1839, while Dost Mohammad sought refuge in the wilds of the Hindu Kush.

In 1839, shortly after his wife's death, Black was nearly blinded when, while he was in bed with illness, his father-in-law and former partner broke into his home and attacked him with a club, having objected to his daughter having married Black years earlier.

Black's wife Anne died in 1838, and in 1839, while Black was in bed from an illness, his father-in-law Shaw broke into Black's house and brutally attacked him with a club.

In Belfast there was a Church of Ireland run Ulster Magdalene Asylum ( founded in 1839 ) on Donegall Pass, while parallel institutions were run by Catholics on Ormeau Road and by Presbyterians on Whitehall Parade.

Charles Goodyear ( December 29, 1800 – July 1, 1860 ) was an American inventor who developed a process to vulcanize rubber in 1839 -- a method that he perfected while living and working in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1844, and for which he received patent number 3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 15, 1844

Willard also published a book of poetry, The Fulfilment of a Promise ( 1831 ) with her most popular poem entitled “ Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep ,” which she reportedly wrote while on an ocean voyage in 1839.

The " Farewell, Mr. Hooper " episode ( ep # 1839 ) aired November 24, 1983 ( Thanksgiving Day ), so that parents and children could discuss the content while watching, and was quickly selected by the Daytime Emmys as being one of the 10 most influential moments in daytime television history.

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.

The explorer George Grey, while on his second disastrous expedition along the Western Australian coast, passed over the future site of Geraldton on 7 April 1839.

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 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.

Other references state that he visited in 1832, and again on August 14, 1839, in the whaler Gideon Howland, to bury an American seaman.

He married Helen Leech ( 1839 – 1932 ), the daughter of another wealthy cotton merchant and shipbuilder from Stalybridge, at Gee Cross on 8 August 1863.

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

Burton ’ s fictional detective relies on practical methods-dogged legwork, knowledge of the underworld and undercover surveillance-rather than brilliance of imagination or intellect, but it has been suggested this story may have been known to Poe, who in 1839 worked for Burton.

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

They city was incorporated on January 25, 1839.

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.

Emperor Kazan, who was tricked into abdicating, on his way to the temple where he will become a Buddhist monk – woodblock prin by Yoshitoshi Tsukioka ( 1839 – 1892 ).

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.

Witness his monographs on the vowel system in th Teutonic languages ( 1836 ), on the Celtic languages ( 1839 ), on the Old Prussian ( 1853 ) and Albanian languages ( Über das Albanesische in seinen verwandtschaftlichen Beziehungen, Vienna, 1854 ), on the accent in Sanskrit and Greek ( 1854 ), on the relationship of the Malayo-Polynesian with the Indo-European languages ( 1840 ), and on the Caucasian languages ( 1846 ).

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.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Germany, three pioneer physical educators – Johann Friedrich GutsMuths ( 1759 – 1839 ) and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn ( 1778 – 1852 ) – created exercises for boys and young men on apparatus they had designed that ultimately led to what is considered modern gymnastics.

They were married on 4 May 1836 and Margherita gave birth to two children, Virginia Maria Luigia ( 26 March 1837 – 12 August 1838 ) and Icilio Romano ( 11 July 1838 – 22 October 1839 ).

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.

It was forged, on the foundations of the Khalsa, under the leadership of Maharaja Ranjit Singh ( 1780 – 1839 ) from an array of autonomous Punjabi Misls.

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.

* The 1839 Eglinton Tournament held by the 13th Earl of Eglinton at Eglinton Castle in Ayrshire was inspired and modelled on Ivanhoe.

Imperial apothecaries ' measures, based on the imperial pint of 20 fluid ounces, were introduced by the publication of the London Pharmacopoeia of 1836, the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia of 1839, and the Dublin Pharmacopoeia of 1850.