1835

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1800s  1810s  1820s  – 1830s –  1840s  1850s  1860s
Years:	1832 1833 1834 – 1835 – 1836 1837 1838

1835 Media

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  December 16: The Great Fire of New York destroys 17 blocks of businesses in Manhattan, including the New York Stock Exchange.

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  October 2: The Texas Revolution starts in Mexico at the American settlement of Gonzalez.

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  Adolf von Baeyer, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1905

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  An official photographic portrait of Empress Dowager Cixi (29 November 1835 – 15 November 1908), aged around 55 years. The photograph was coloured by Imperial Court painters according to reality.

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  A portrait of the American writer Mark Twain taken by A. F. Bradley in New York, 1907.[1][2][3]

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  Saint Magdalene of Canossa

1835 (MDCCCXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1835th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 835th year of the 2nd millennium, the 35th year of the 19th century, and the 6th year of the 1830s decade. As of the start of 1835, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

• January 1 – Ole Pedersen Hoiland breaks into the Bank of Norway and steals 64.000 dalers (Swedish dollars)
• January 30 – Unsuccessful assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol – first assassination attempt against a President of the United States.
• February 20 – Concepción, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake
• March 2 – Ferdinand becomes Emperor of Austria.
• April 18 – Lord Melbourne becomes the new British Prime Minister.
• May 5 – In Belgium a railroad opens from Brussels to Mechelen. It is the first railway in continental Europe.
• May 6 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr. makes the first issue of the New York Herald.
• July 4 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad finishes the Thomas Viaduct, at the time the longest bridge in the United States, and the second longest in the world. (London Bridge was the longest in the world at the time)
• September 7 – Charles Darwin gets to the Galapagos Islands aboard HMS Beagle.
• October 2 – Texas Revolution begins: Battle of Gonzales – Mexican soldiers try to get the people of Gonzales, Texas to give up their weapons, but the Texans fight back
• December 9 – The Army of the Republic of Texas captures San Antonio.
• December 16 – Fire in New York City destroys 530 buildings
• December 19 – Toledo Blade newspaper begins publishing.
• December 28 – Seminole fighter Osceola and his warriors attack U.S. government agent Thompson outside Fort King in Central Florida, starting the Second Seminole War.
• The State of Ohio and the Michigan Territory fight the Toledo War over the city of Toledo and the Toledo Strip.
• De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestum, Copernicus' book on the motion of the Earth, is removed from the Index of Prohibited Books.
• Samuel Colt patents the first revolver
• Civil war erupts in Uruguay between supporters of Blanco and Colorado parties
• The first Bulgarian-language school opens in the Ottoman Empire.
• The French word for their language changes to français, from françois
• The Australian city of Melbourne is founded by John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner.

Art, music, theatre, and literature

• May 8 – Hans Christian Andersen publishes his first four fairy tales
• June 2 – P.T. Barnum and his circus begin their first tour of the United States
• September 26 – Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor is performed for the first time

Births

• March 15 – Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (d. 1916)
• April 9 – King Léopold II of Belgium (d. 1909)
• June 2 – Pope Pius X (d. 1914)
• October 23 – Adlai E. Stevenson, Vice President of the United States (d. 1914)
• November 25 – Andrew Carnegie, American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1919)
• November 30 – Mark Twain, American writer and humorist (d. 1910)

Deaths

• March 2 – Emperor Francis I of Austria (b. 1768)
• April 21 – Samuel Slater, American industrialist (b. 1768)
• May 13 – John Nash, English architect (b. 1752)
• June 18 – William Cobbett, English journalist and writer (b. 1763)
• July 28 – Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (b. 1768)
• September 23 – Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (b. 1801)