1835 - Definition and Overview

Events

• January 1 – Ole Pedersen Hoiland breaks into the Bank of Norway and steals 64.000 dalers
• January 7 - HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago.
• 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 succeeds Sir Robert Peel as British Prime Minister.
• The Australian city of Melbourne is founded by John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner.
• May 5 - In Belgium a railway is opened between Brussels and Mechelen. It is the first railway in continental Europe.
• May 6 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
• June 2 - P.T. Barnum and his circus begins first tour of the U.S.
• July 4 - The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad completed construction of its Thomas Viaduct then the longest bridge in the United States, and second only to London Bridge in the world.
• August 25 - The Great Moon Hoax begins.
• September 7 – Charles Darwin arrives at Galapagos Islands aboard HMS Beagle
• October 2 - Texas Revolution begins: Battle of Gonzales - Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
• December 1 - Hans Christian Andersen publishes first book of fairy tales
• December 7 - First German Railway between Nürnberg and Fürth named "der Adler" (The Eagle)
• 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 chief Osceola and his warriors attack government agent Thompson outside Fort King in Central Florida - it means the outbreak of the Second Seminole War
• The Toledo War was fought between the State of Ohio and the Michigan Territory 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
• Cachar Levy, forerunner of Assam Rifles, is founded in India
• The first Bulgarian-language school opens in the Ottoman Empire.

Births

• February 13 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Muslim Reformer, Promised Messiah and Imam Mahdi (d. 1908)
• February 15 - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek IOC president (d. 1908)
• March 14 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (d. 1910)
• March 15 - Eduard Strauss, composer (d. 1916)
• March 24 - Jožef Stefan, Slovene physicist, mathematician and poet (d. 1893)
• March 29 - Gustaf Zander, physician (d. 1920)
• April 9 - King Leopold II of the Belgians (d. 1909)
• June 2 - Pope Pius X (d. 1914)
• July 7 - Ernest Giles, Australian explorer (d. 1897)
• July 10 - Henryk Wieniawski, composer
• October 7 - Felix Draeseke, composer (d. 1913)
• October 9 - Camille Saint-Saëns, composer (d. 1921)
• October 23 - Adlai E. Stevenson, Vice President of the United States (d. 1914)
• November 19 - Rani Lakshmi Bai, Freedom fighter from India's First war of independence
• November 21 - Hetty Green, businesswoman (d. 1916)
• November 25 - Andrew Carnegie, industrialist, philanthropist (d. 1919)
• November 29 - Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty of China.
• November 30 - Mark Twain, author, humorist (d. 1910)
• December 4 - Samuel Butler, writer (d. 1902)
• December 18 - Lyman Abbott, author (d. 1922)

Deaths

• February 15 - Henry Hunt, British politician (b. 1773)
• March 2 - Emperor Francis I of Austria (b. 1768)
• March 18 - Christian Gunther von Bernstorff, Danish and Prussian statesman and diplomat (b. 1769)
• April 8 - Wilhelm von Humboldt, linguist, philosopher (b. 1767)
• April 21 - Samuel Slater, US industrialist (b. 1768)
• May 13 - John Nash, architect (b. 1752)
• June 18 - William Cobbett, journalist and author (b. 1763)
• September 23 - Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (b. 1801)