1835

Year 1835 (MDCCCXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1835

January - June

• January 7 - The HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago, on the voyage of 1831-1836 with Charles Darwin.
• January 30 - An assassination is attempted against President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol (the 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.
• March 23 — The Mexican Academy of Language is established.
• April 18 - Lord Melbourne succeeds Sir Robert Peel as British Prime Minister.
• May 5 - In Belgium a railway is opened between Brussels and Mechelen. It is the first railway in continental Europe (see Rail transport in Belgium).
• May 23 - The Mexican State of Aguascalientes is formed by decree of President Santa Anna.
• June 8 - The Australian city of Melbourne is founded by John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner [1].

July - December

• August 25 - In the U.S., the New York Sun prints issue 1 of 6 for the Great Moon Hoax.
• September 7 - Charles Darwin arrives at the Galapagos Islands aboard the HMS Beagle.
• September 20 - Farroupilha's Revolution begins in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

• October 2 - Texas Revolution - Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
• October 3 - Staedtler Company was founded by J.S. Staedtler in Nuremburg, Germany.
• November 16 - Comet Halley reaches perihelion, its closest approach to the sun.
• November 19 - A force of 500 Māori invade and enslave the peoples of the Chatham Islands.
• December 1 - Hans Christian Andersen publishes his first book of fairy tales.
• December 7 - The first German railway opens between Nürnberg and Fürth, named "der Adler" (The Eagle) (see History of rail transport in Germany).
• December 9 - The Army of the Republic of Texas captures San Antonio.
• December 16-17 - The Great Fire of New York destroys 530 buildings, including the New York Stock Exchange.
• December 20 - The Texas Declaration of Independence is first signed at Goliad, Texas.
• December 28 - USA: The Second Seminole War breaks out.
• December 29 - The Treaty of New Echota is signed between the United States Government and members of the Cherokee Tribe.

Undated

• The British Geological Survey is founded as the world's first national geological survey.
• De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, Copernicus' book on the motion of the Earth, is removed from the Index of Prohibited Books.
• 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.
• The French word for their language changes to français, from françois.
• Fort Cass is established, the military headquarters and site of the largest internment camps during the 1838 Trail of Tears.
• Charles-Louis Havas creates Havas, the first French news agency (which later spawns Agence France-Presse).
• English becomes the official language of India.
• Juan Manuel de Rosas becomes Caudillo of Argentina.

Births

1835 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 1835
MDCCCXXXV
Ab urbe condita 2588
Armenian calendar 1284
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Bahá'í calendar -9 – -8
Berber calendar 2785
Buddhist calendar 2379
Burmese calendar 1197
Byzantine calendar 7343 – 7344
Chinese calendar 甲午年十二月初三日
(4471/4531-12-3) 乙未年十一月十二日
(4472/4532-11-12)
Coptic calendar 1551 – 1552
Ethiopian calendar 1827 – 1828
Hebrew calendar 5595 – 5596
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1890 – 1891
 - Shaka Samvat 1757 – 1758
 - Kali Yuga 4936 – 4937
Holocene calendar 11835
Iranian calendar 1213 – 1214
Islamic calendar 1250 – 1251
Japanese calendar Tenpō 6
(天保6年)
Korean calendar 4168
Thai solar calendar 2378

January - June

• February 13 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (d. 1908)
• February 15 - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek International Olympic Committee president (d. 1908)
• February 18 - César Cui, Lithuanian composer (d. 1918)
• March 4 - John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (d. 1911)
• March 14 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (d. 1910)
• March 15 - Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (d. 1916)
• March 24 - Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist, mathematician, and poet (d. 1893)
• April 9 - King Léopold II of Belgium (d. 1909)
• May 3 - Alfred Austin, English poet (d. 1913)
• May 21 - František Chvostek, Moravian physician (d. 1884)
• June 2 - Pope Pius X, (d. 1914)
• June 26 - Thomas W. Knox, American author and journalist (d. 1896)

July - December

• July 7 - Ernest Giles, Australian explorer (d. 1897)
• July 10 - Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (d. 1880)
• July 27 - Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)
• August 2 - Elisha Gray, American inventor and businessman (d. 1901)
• October 7 - Felix Draeseke, German composer (d. 1913)
• October 9 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)
• October 23 - Adlai E. Stevenson, Vice President of the United States (d. 1914)
• October 31 - Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917)
• November 17 - Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (d. 1915)
• November 19 - Rani Lakshmi Bai, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1858)
• November 21 - Hetty Green, American businesswoman (d. 1916)
• November 25 - Andrew Carnegie, American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1919)
• November 29 - Empress Dowager Cixi of China (d. 1908)
• November 30 - Mark Twain, American author and humorist (d. 1910)
• December 4 - Samuel Butler, English writer (d. 1902)
• December 17 - Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist, son of Louis Agassiz (d. 1910)
• December 18 - Lyman Abbott, American clergyman and author (d. 1922)