Major Events
- Jan 11 First public demonstration of telegraph messages sent using dots and dashes at Speedwell Ironworks in Morristown, New Jersey by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail
- Jun 28 Coronation of Queen Victoria, aged 19, during a five-hour ceremony at Westminster Abbey, London [1]
- Jul 4 Huskar Pit Disaster: 26 children drown trying to escape flooding in the Silkstone Colliery in England. Leads to the 1842 Mines Act, which bans women and children working underground. [1]
- Aug 18 United States Exploring Expedition headed by Charles Wilkes departs for the Pacific Ocean and Antarctica
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John Muir
John Wilkes Booth
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Howard B. Cushing
Victoria Woodhull
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Talleyrand
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Articles About 1838
Morse Telegraph First Demonstrated
The original Morse telegraph machine, as developed by Samuel MorseJanuary 6
The Fire and Fury of Jonathan Martin
Jonathan Martin was a religious extremist who described the clergy as 'vipers from hell' and tried to burn down one of England’s most treasured cathedrals.June 3
Coronation of Queen Victoria
Coronation of Queen Victoria in Westminster Abbey by Sir George HayterJune 28
The Age of Zeppelins
Through peace and war the sky was the limit for Zeppelin airships, named after their German inventor – until the Hindenburg disaster put an end to the dream.July 8
Famous Weddings in 1838
- Sep 14 Newly escaped slave Frederick Douglass marries free woman Anne Murray in New York
- Nov 11 Emma Wedgwood accepts English naturalist Charles Darwin's marriage proposal
Charles Dickens
Martin Van Buren
William Lamb