1835 Establishments In Louisiana

Events

January–March

* January 7 – anchors off the Chonos Archipelago on her second voyage, with Charles Darwin on board as naturalist.
* January 8 – The United States public debt contracts to zero, for the only time in history.
* January 24 – Malê Revolt: African slaves of Yoruba Muslim origin revolt in Salvador, Bahia.
* January 26 – Queen Maria II of Portugal marries Auguste de Beauharnais, 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg, in Lisbon; he dies only two months later.
* January 26 – Saint Paul's in Macau largely destroyed by fire after a typhoon hits.
* January 30 – An assassination is attempted against United States President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol (the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States).
* February 1 – Slavery is abolished in Mauritius.
* February 20 – 1835 Concepción earthquake: Concepción, Chile, is destroyed by an earthquake; the resulting tsunami destroys the neighboring city of Talcahuano.
* March 2 – Ferdinand becomes Emperor of Austria.
* March 23 – The Academia Mexicana de la Lengua (Mexican Academy of Language) is established.

April–June

* April 18 – Lord Melbourne succeeds Sir Robert Peel as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
* May 5
** Rail transport in Belgium: A railway is opened between Brussels and Mechelen, the first in continental Europe.
** Braulio Carrillo is sworn in as Head of State of Costa Rica.
* May 8 – Hans Christian Andersen's ''Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection.'' begins publication.
* May 11 – Matua, High Priest (''taura tupua'') of the Polynesian island of Mangareva, is baptized into the Roman Catholic Church.
* May 13 – British barque ''Neva'', transporting female convicts from Cork, Ireland, to Australia, is wrecked in the Bass Strait with the loss of 224 people and only 15 survivors.
* May 23 – The Mexican State of Aguascalientes is formed, by decree of President Santa Anna.
* June 1 – Kingston Penitentiary in Kingston, Ontario, opens.

July–September

* July – Bertelsmann is founded by Carl Bertelsmann as a religious printer and publisher in Prussia.
* July 14 – The universal Catholic Apostolic Church is organized, initially in the U.K.
* July 28 – In Paris, the assassination of King Louis Philippe I of France is attempted by Giuseppe Marco Fieschi, using a home-made volley gun; 10 are killed, but the King escapes with a minor wound.
* August – H. Fox Talbot exposes the world's first known photographic negatives, at Lacock Abbey in England.
* August 25 – In the U.S., ''The New York Sun'' prints the first of six installments of the ''Great Moon Hoax''.
* August 28 – St. Vincent's Ecclesiastical Seminary, a predecessor of Castleknock College, is founded by the Vincentian community in Dublin, Ireland.
* August 30 – European settlers, landing on the north banks of the Yarra River in Victoria, Australia, found the settlement of Melbourne.
* September 7 – Charles Darwin arrives at the Galápagos Islands, aboard .
* September 19 – William Lloyd Garrison publishes Angelina Grimké's anti-slavery letter in ''The Liberator''.
* September 20 – The Ragamuffin War begins in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
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October–December

* October 2 – The Texas Revolution – Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
* October 3 – The Staedtler Company (pencil manufacturers) is founded by J. S. Staedtler in Nuremberg, Germany.
* October 28
** The United Tribes of New Zealand is founded at Waitangi, with the Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand.
** Texas Revolution – Battle of Concepción: The Texian Army defeats the Mexicans.
* November 12 – Construction is completed on the Wilberforce Monument in Kingston Upon Hull.
* November 16 – Halley's Comet reaches perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun.
* November 19 – A force of 500 Māori people invade and enslave the peoples of the Chatham Islands.
* November 27 – Two London men, James Pratt and John Smith, are hanged in front of Newgate Prison in London, after a conviction of buggery. They are the last to suffer capital punishment for homosexual acts in England.
* December 7
** The Bavarian Ludwig Railway opens between Nuremberg and Fürth, with a train hauled by the English-built ''Der Adler'' ("''The Eagle''"), the first railway in Germany.
** Future U.S. President James K. Polk becomes Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
* December 9 – The Army of the Republic of Texas captures San Antonio.
* December 16– 17 – The Great Fire of New York destroys 530 buildings, including the New York Stock Exchange."Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p76
* December 20 – The Texas Declaration of Independence is first signed at Goliad, Texas.
* December 21 – The Raleigh and Gaston Railroad is chartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.
* December 28 – United States: The Second Seminole War led by Osceola breaks out.
* December 29 – The Treaty of New Echota is signed between the United States Government, and members of the Cherokee Nation.

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* The British East India Company negotiates a lease of the Darjeeling area west of the Mahananda River, from the Kingdom of Sikkim.
* The British Geological Survey is founded, as the world's first national geological survey.
* Civil war erupts in Uruguay, between supporters of the Blanco and Colorado parties.
* The ''Cachar Levy'', forerunner of the '' Assam Rifles'', is founded in India.
* The first Bulgarian-language school opens in the Ottoman Empire.
* The French word for their language changes to ''français'', from ''françois''.
* Fort Cass is established, the military headquarters and site of the largest internment camps during the 1838 Trail of Tears.
* Charles-Louis Havas creates '' Havas'', the first news agency in the world (which later spawns ''Agence France-Presse'').
* English becomes the official language of India.
* Juan Manuel de Rosas becomes Caudillo of Argentina.
* Edward Strutt Abdy publishes his ''Journal of a Residence and Tour in the United States of North America: From April, 1833, to October 1834''.
* David Strauss begins publication of ''Das Leben Jessu, kritisch bearbeitet'' ("The life of Jesus, critically examined") in Tübingen.

Births

January–June

* January 14 – Emmy Rappe, Swedish nurse pioneer (d. 1896)
* February 13 – Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (d. 1908)
* February 15 – Demetrius Vikelas, Greek International Olympic Committee president (d. 1908)
* February 18 – César Cui, Lithuanian composer (d. 1918)
* February 22 – Jeannette Walworth, American novelist, journalist (d. 1918)
* March 12
** Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer (d. 1909)
** Sigismondo Savona, Maltese educator and politician (d. 1908)
* March 14 – Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (d. 1910)
* March 15 – Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (d. 1916)
* March 21 – Maria Magdalena Mathsdotter, Swedish Sami educator (d. 1873)
* March 24 – Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist, mathematician, and poet (d. 1893)
* April 1 – Big Jim Fisk, American entrepreneur (d. 1872)
* April 4 – John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (d. 1911)
* April 9 – King Leopold II of Belgium (d. 1909)
* May 3 – Alfred Austin, English poet (d. 1913)
* May 18 – Charles N. Sims, American Methodist preacher, third chancellor of Syracuse University (d. 1908)
* May 21 – František Chvostek, Moravian physician (d. 1884)
* June 2 – Pope Pius X (d. 1914)
* June 6 – Ștefan Fălcoianu, Romanian general and politician (d. 1905)
* June 9 – Ramón Barros Luco, 15th President of Chile (d. 1919)
* June 10 – Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany, (d. 1908)
* June 12 – George Atzerodt, conspirator with John Wilkes Booth, assigned to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson (d. 1865)
* June 15 – Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress (d. 1868)
* June 23 – Fanny Eaton, Jamaican-born artists model and domestic worker (d. 1924)
* June 24 – Johannes Wislicenus, German chemist (d. 1902)
* June 26 – Thomas W. Knox, American author, journalist (d. 1896)

July–December

* July 6 – Sir George White, British field marshal (d. 1912)
* July 7 – Ernest Giles, Australian explorer (d. 1897)
* July 10 – Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (d. 1880)
* July 19 – Justo Rufino Barrios, 9th President of Guatemala (d. 1885)
* July 27 – Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)
* July 30 – Edmund Francis Dunne, American politician, jurist, and Catholic orator (d. 1904)
* July 31 – Henri Brisson, 2-time prime minister of France (d. 1912)
* August 2 – Elisha Gray, American inventor, businessman (d. 1901)
* August 6 – Hjalmar Kiærskou, Danish botanist (d. 1900)
* August 19 – Tom Wills, Australian cricketer, pioneer of Australian rules football (d. 1880)
* August 27 – Thomas Burberry, English businessman, inventor (d. 1926)
* September 1 – Raphael Kalinowski, Polish Discalced Carmelite friar, saint (d. 1907)
* October 7 – Felix Draeseke, German composer (d. 1913)
* October 9 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)
* October 16 – William R. Shafter, American general (d. 1906)
* October 23 – Adlai E. Stevenson I, 23rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1914)
* October 31 – Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917)
* November 6 – Cesare Lombroso, Italian criminologist (d. 1909)
* November 17 – Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero, Governor of Ohio (d. 1915)
* November 19 – Matilda Carse, Irish-born American businesswoman, social reformer (d. 1917)
* November 21 – Rose Eytinge, American actress (d. 1911)
* November 25
** Andrew Carnegie, American industrialist, philanthropist (d. 1919)
** Arthur Sewall, American politician, industrialist (d. 1900)
* November 29 – Empress Dowager Cixi of China (d. 1908)
* November 30 – Mark Twain, American author, humorist (d. 1910)
* December 4 – Samuel Butler, English writer (d. 1902)
* December 6 – Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, German chemist (d. 1910)
* December 17 – Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist (d. 1910)
* December 18 – Lyman Abbott, American clergyman, author (d. 1922)
* December 28 – Sir Archibald Geikie, Scottish geologist (d. 1924)

Deaths

January–June

* January 1 – Mátyás Godina, Slovene Lutheran pastor, writer, and teacher (b. 1768)
* February 8 – Guillaume Dupuytren, French anatomist, military surgeon (b. 1777)
* February 15
** Nathan Dane, American politician (b. 1752)
** Henry Hunt, British politician (b. 1773)
* March 2 – Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1768)
* March 18 – Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish, Prussian statesman, diplomat (b. 1769)
* March 28 – Auguste de Beauharnais, Prince consort of Queen Maria II of Portugal (b. 1810)
* March 30 – Richard Sharp MP, known as 'Conversation Sharp' English merchant, critic, poet, and wit
* April 1 – Józef Zeydlitz, Polish military leader (b. 1755)
* April 8 – Wilhelm von Humboldt, German linguist, philosopher (b. 1767)
* April 10 – Magdalene of Canossa, Italian Catholic religious professed, saint (b. 1774)
* April 21 – Samuel Slater, American industrialist (b. 1768)
* May 8 – Francisca Zubiaga y Bernales, first lady of Peru, controversial socialite (b. 1803)
* May 13 – John Nash (architect), John Nash, English architect (b. 1752)
* June 18 – William Cobbett, English journalist, author (b. 1763)
* June 24 – Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral (b. 1768)
* June 25 – Ebenezer Pemberton, American educator (b. 1746)

July–December

* July 6 – John Marshall, influential American Chief Justice of the United States, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1755)
* July 15 – Izabela Czartoryska, Polish magnate princess (b. 1746)
* July 28 – Édouard Mortier, Duke of Trévise, French marshal (b. 1768)
* August 18 – Friedrich Stromeyer, German chemist (born 1776)
* September 23
** Georg Adlersparre, Swedish military leader (b. 1760)
** Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (b. 1801)
* November 14 – James Freeman (clergyman), James Freeman, first American clergyman to call himself a Unitarian (b. 1759)
* November 20 – Joseph von Baader, German railway pioneer (b. 1763)
* November 29 – Princess Catharina of Württemberg, wife of Jérôme Bonaparte (b. 1783)
* December 13 – John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1760)
* December 17 – Pierre Louis Roederer, French politician, economist, and historian (b. 1754)
* December 22 – David Hosack, American physician and educator, attending doctor at the Hamilton-Burr duel (b. 1769)

Unknown

* Sally Hemings – American-born slave, concubine to Thomas Jefferson (b. c. 1773)
* Ishak Efendi – Ottoman engineer, translator (b. c. 1774)

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