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1838 ( MDCCCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1838th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 838th year of the 2nd millennium, the 38th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1830s decade.
January–March. January 6 – Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrates the telegraph. January 8 – Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code ). January 27 – Abraham Lincoln speaks at the Springfield Young Men's Lyceum. March 8 – The New Orleans Mint strikes its first coinage, 30 dimes.
The 1838 constitution was also the first in Portugal to recognise the right to freedom of assembly. [3] The constitution was only briefly in effect. On his arrival in Porto on 10 February 1842 Costa Cabral was hailed with popular calls for the return of the Constitutional Charter of 1826, which he restored following a coup d’état on his ...
1965 or 1584 or 812. 1838 ( MDCCCXXXVIII ) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1838th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 838th year of the 2nd millennium, the 38th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1830s ...
17 September – opening of the London and Birmingham Railway throughout, the first trunk line in England. [13] [14] 18 September – Anti-Corn Law League founded by Richard Cobden and John Bright in Manchester. [9] 24 September – "Monster meeting" on Kersal Moor, Salford, in support of Chartism.
Conflict over the New Brunswick-Maine border begins in the Aroostook River area. During December 1838 and January 1839, 30 rebels hanged in London, Kingston and Montreal. The Custom House, at Montreal, is finished. The population of Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island is 1,282,000. Insurgents are amnestied.
The plains-wanderer is a quail -like ground bird, measuring 15 to 19 centimetres (5.9 to 7.5 in). The adult male is light brown above, with fawn-white underparts with black crescents. The adult female is substantially larger than the male, and has a distinctive white-spotted black collar.
