1838 state leaders - Events of 1839 - 1840 state leaders - State leaders by year

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Contents

1 Africa 2 Asia 3 Europe 4 Middle East and North Africa 5 North America 6 South America

Africa

• Ashanti Confederacy - Kwaku Dua I Panyin, Asantehene (1834-1867)
• Buganda - Suna II, King of Buganda (1836-1856)
• Bunyoro - Nyabongo II, Omukama of Bunyoro (1835-1848))
• Burundi - Ntare IV Rugamba, King of Burundi (1796-1852)
• Dahomey - Gézo, King of Dahomey (1818-1856)
• Rwanda - Mutara II Rwogera, King of Rwanda (1830-1853)
• Sokoto Caliphate
  • Caliph - Abu Bakr Atiku, Sokoto Caliph (1837-1842)
  • Grand Vizier - Gidago dan Laima, Sokoto Grand Vizier (1817-1842)
• Zulu - Dingane kaSenzangakhona, King of the Zulu (1828-1840)

Asia

• Afghanistan -
  1. Dost Mahommed Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (1826-1839)
  2. Shoja Shah, King of Afghanistan (1839-1842)
• China (Qing Dynasty) - Daoguang, Emperor of China (1821-1850)
• Japan
  • Monarch - Ninko, Emperor of Japan (1817-1846)
  • Shogun (Tokugawa) - Tokugawa Ieyoshi, Shogun of Japan (1837-1853)
• Korea (Joseon Dynasty) - Heonjong, King of Joseon (1834-1849)

Europe

• Abkhazia - Mikheil, Prince of Abkhazia (1822-1864)
• Andorra -
  • Simó Rojas de Guardiola i Hortoneda, Bishop of Urgell (1828-1851)
  • Louis-Philippe I, King of France (1830-1848)
• Belgium - Leopold I, King of the Belgians (1831-1865)
• Denmark
  • Monarch -
    1. Frederick VI, King of Denmark (1808-1839)
    2. Christian VIII, King of Denmark (1839-1848)
  • Prime Minister - Otto Joachim, Minister of State of Denmark (1824-1842)
• France -
  • Monarch - Louis Philippe, King of the French (1830-1848)
  • Prime Minister -
    1. Comte Molé, Prime Minister of France (1836-1839)
    2. Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, duc de Dalmatie, Prime Minister of France (1839-1840)
• Netherlands - William I, King of the Netherlands (1815-1840)
• Portugal - Maria II, Queen of Portugal (1826-1828, 1834-1853)
• Prussia -
  • Monarch - Friedrich Wilhelm III, King of Prussia (1797-1840)
  • Chief Minister - Karl Friedrich Heinrich von Wylich, Cabinet Minister (1823-1841
• Russia - Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia (1825-1855)
• Spain - Isabella II, Queen of Spain (1833-1868)
• Sweden - Kingdom of Sweden-Norway
  • Monarch Charles XIV, King of Sweden (1818-1844)
  • Chief Minister - Mathias Rosenblad, Prime Minister for Justice of Sweden (1829-1840)
  • Foreign Minister - Gustaf Nils Algernon Stierneld, Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden-Norway (1838-1842)
• United Kingdom -
  • Monarch - Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland (1837-1901)
  • Prime Minister - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1835-1841)

Middle East and North Africa

• Abu Dhabi -
  • Co-Shaikh - Khalifa bin Shakhbut, Shaikh of Abu Dhabi (1833-1845)
  • Co-Shaikh - Sultan bin Shakhbut, Shaikh of Abu Dhabi (1833-1845)
• Ajman - Humayd ibn Rashid, Shaikh of Ajman (1838-1841)
• Bahrain - Muhammad ibn Khalifah Al Khalifah, Shaikh of Bahrain (1834-1842)
• Egypt - Muhammad Ali Pasha, Governor of Egypt (1805-1848)
• Kuwait - Sheikh Jabir ibn Abdullah Al Sabah, Ruler of Kuwait (1814-1859)
• Morocco - Abderrahmane, Sultan of Morocco (1822-1859)
• Mount Lebanon - Bashir ibn al-Qasim ibn `Umar, Emir of Mount Lebanon (1822-1840)
• Oman - Sa'id II ibn Sultan, Sultan of Oman (1804-1856)
• Ottoman Empire
  • Monarch -
    1. Mahmud II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808-1839)
    2. Abd-ul-Mejid, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1839-1861)
  • Grand Vizier -
    1. Mehmed Emin Rauf Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier (1833-1839)
    2. Mehmed Hüsrev Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier (1839-1841)

North America

• Mexico -
  1. Anastasio Bustamante, President (1837-1839)
  2. Antonio López de Santa Anna, President (1839)
  3. Nicolás Bravo, President (1839)
  4. Anastasio Bustamante, President (1839-1841)
• Republic of Texas - Mirabeau B. Lamar, President (1838-1841)
• United States of America - Martin Van Buren, President of the United States (1837-1841)

South America

• Brazil - Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil (1831-1889)
• Bolivia -
  1. Andrés de Santa Cruz (1829-1839)
  2. ...
• Chile - José Joaquín Prieto Vial, President of Chile (1831-1840, 1840-1841)
• Ecuador -
  1. Vicente Rocafuerte (1834-1839)
  2. ...
• Paraguay - Perpetual Supreme Dictator José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia (1814-1840)