A Regency Era Timeline 1835 in Progress

Timeline

Each time I start a year, I have already compiled a list, months ago with about 6000 entered of what happened from 1788 to 1837. My first step now (It took several trials to get this down to a science) is to cut out the specific year I will work on and paste it into its own spreadsheet to work with. When I worked on the entire spreadsheet, sometimes inserting a line, with all the graphics I had begun to place, took a long time. Working on each year alone, is a lot faster.

With the year separated out, I now turn to my book sources,

The Timetables of History by Grun and Stein

Chronology of CULTURE by Paxton and Fairfield

What Happened When by Carruth.

, History of the World. A beautiful Dorealing Kindersley book.

I now diligently look through each of these to find entries that I did not come across on the internet, and other printed lists. It is possible that there are places that have more listings for each year. I have not found them. And when you go to the Timelines at the Regency Assembly Press page, there you will see all the graphical references as well. Something that I did not find anywhere else.

Here is the start of 1835:

Year

Month Day

Event



1835

Jan 17

Antanas Baranauskas (d.1902), Lithuanian poet and bishop, was born in Anyksciai.



1835

Jan 18

Cesar A. Cui, fort architect, composer, was born in Vilnius, Lithuania.



1835

Jan 31

Richard Lawrence misfired at President Andrew Jackson (aka ‘Old Hickory’) at the White House. Lawrence fired 2 pistols at Pres. Andrew Jackson during funeral services for Rep. Warren Davis. Jackson wasn’t hit and Lawrence, who thought he was the king of England and that Jackson owed him money, was found to be insane.



1835

Jan

Consiguina volcano in Nicaragua erupted and threw ash as far away as Mexico and Jamaica.



1835

Feb 20

Concepcion, Chile, was destroyed by earthquake and some 5,000 died.



1835

Feb 22

HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin left Valdivia, Chile.



1835

Mar 3

Congress authorized a US mint at New Orleans, LA.



1835

Mar 4

HMS Beagle moved into Bay of Concepcion.



1835

Mar 6

Charles Ewing (d.1883), Brig General (Union volunteers), was born.



1835

Mar 7

HMS Beagle returned from Concepcion to Valparaiso.



1835

Mar 10

Charles Darwin in a letter to Carolyn Darwin described a massive earthquake in Concepcion, Chile.



1835

Mar 12

Simon Newcomb, US scientist, mathematician, astronomer, was born.



1835

Mar 13

Charles Darwin departed Valparaiso for Andes crossing.



1835

Mar 18

Charles Darwin departed Santiago, Chile, on his way to Portillo Pass.



1835

Mar 23

Charles Darwin reached Los Arenales in the Andes.



1835

Mar 27

The Mexican army massacred Texan rebels at Gohad.



1835

Mar 29

Elihu Thomson, the English-born American inventor of electric welding and arc lighting, was born.



1835

14-Apr

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom: William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne



1835

Apr 10

Charles Darwin returned to Santiago, Chile.



1835

Apr 17

William Henry Ireland (b.1775)), English forger of Shakespeare’s works, died. He is less well-known as a poet, writer of gothic novels and histories.



1835

Apr 26

Frederic Chopin’s “Grand Polonaise Brillante,” premiered in Paris.



1835

Apr

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) published novel “Improvisatore,” an alternative version of his own life based on his travel experiences in Italy.



1835

May 6

The 1st edition of NY Herald was priced at 1 cent. The Herald specialized in crime with an emphasis on murder. James Gordon Bennett was the Scottish-born steward of the Herald. Within a few years of the 1936 Jewett murder case, a coalition of clergymen, financiers and rival editors waged a “Moral War” against Bennett and his newspaper



1835

May 12

Charles Darwin visited the copper mines in North Chile.



1835

May 13

John Nash, British town planner, architect (Regent’s Park), died.



1835

May 14

Charles Darwin reached Coquimbo in Northern Chile.



1835

May 26

Edward Porter Alexander, brigadier general of artillery, was born.



1835

May 26

A resolution was passed in the U.S. Congress stating that Congress has no authority over state slavery laws.



1835

Jun 2

St. Pius X, 257th Roman Catholic pope (1903-14), was born.



1835

Jun 2

P.T. Barnum and his circus began 1st tour of US.



1835

Jul 1

German printer Carl Bertelsmann (1791-1850) founded Bertelsmann Verlag in Gutersloh, as a publisher and printer of religious books. In 2004 it was Europe’s largest media company.



1835

Jul 4

The Boston and Worcester Railroad was inaugurated.



1835

Jul 6

John Marshall, the 3rd chief justice of the US Supreme Court, died at the age of 79. Two days later, while tolling in his honor in Philadelphia, the Liberty Bell cracked. Marshall served on the court for 34 years.



1835

Jul 8

The US Liberty Bell in Philadelphia cracked while being tolled for Chief Justice John Marshall. It was never rung again.



1835

Jul 28

King Louis Philippe of France survived an assassination attempt by Giuseppe Maria Fieschi, who rigged 25 guns together and fired them all with the pull of a single trigger.



1835

Aug 2

Elisha Grey, inventor (Telephone), was born.



1835

Aug 10

Mob of whites and oxen pulled a black school to a swamp outside of Canaan, NH.



1835

Aug 18

The last Pottawatomie Indians left Chicago.



1835

Aug 25

Ann Rutledge (22), said to be Lincoln’s true love, died in Ill.



1835

Aug 31

Angry mob in Charleston, South Carolina, seized U-S mail containing abolitionist literature and burned it in public.



1835

Sep 13

Ladd & Co. began the 1st sugar cane plantation in Hawaii.



1835

Sep 15

HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reached the Galapagos Islands, a scattering of 19 small islands and scores of islets.



1835

Sep 17

Charles Darwin landed on Chatham in the Galapagos-archipelago.



1835

Sep 23

HMS Beagle sailed to Charles Island in the Galapagos archipelago.



1835

Sep 26

Gaetano Donizetti’s opera “Lucia di Lammermoor,” premiered in Naples.



1835

Sep

Texans petitioned for statehood separate from Coahuila. They wrote out their needs and their complaints in The Declaration of Causes. This document was designed to convince the Federalists that the Texans desired only to preserve the 1824 Constitution, which guaranteed the rights of everyone living on Mexican soil. But by this time, Santa Anna was in power, having seized control in 1833, and he advocated the removal of all foreigners. His answer was to send his crack troops, commanded by his brother-in-law, General Martin Perfecto de Css, to San Antonio to disarm the Texans.



1835

Oct 2

The first battle of the Texas Revolution took place as American settlers fought Mexican soldiers near the Guadalupe River; the Mexicans ended up withdrawing.



1835

Oct 6

The people of Michigan approved an new state constitution by a vote of 6,299 to 1,359. The constitution repudiated slavery and safeguarded personal liberty.



1835

Oct 8

HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reached James Island, Galapagos archipelago.



1835

Oct 9

Camille Saint-Saens, composer (Carnival of the Animals, Organ Symphony, Samson et Dalilah), was born in Paris, France.



1835

Oct 20

HMS Beagle left the Galapagos Archipelago and sailed to Tahiti.



1835

Oct 23

Adlai Ewing Stevenson, (D) 23rd VP (1893-97), was born.



1835

Oct 29

In NYC Tammany Hall radicals lit candles with the new self-igniting friction matches, known as loco-focos, and continued to nominate their own ticket and formulate their program. The radical urban wing of the Democratic Party, which emerged in New York in opposition to Andrew Jackson‘s banking policies, thus became known by the nickname Loco-Focos. Also known as Equal Rights men, the Loco-Focos fought those financial interests aided by the regular Democratic Party in applying for bank and corporation charters from the legislature.  They also advocated hard money, elections by direct popular vote, direct taxes, free trade, abolition of monopolies and Jeffersonian strict construction. They got the name Loco-Focos from an incident that occurred at a party primary meeting in Tammany Hall. After party regulars pushed through a ticket over the objections of the Equal Rights men, the radicals refused to vacate the hall. To get them to leave, the party regulars turned out the gas lights.



1835

Oct 31

Adelbert Ames (d.1933), Bvt Major General (Union Army), was born.



1835

Oct 31

J.F.W. Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905), was born.



1835

Oct

Before the Alamo, Mexican General Css led troops against the small community of Gonzales, since enshrined in history as the “Lexington of Texas.” San Antonio de Bixar went under military rule, with 1,200 Mexican troops under General Css’ command. When Css ordered the small community of Gonzales, about 50 miles east of San Antonio, to return a cannon loaned to the town for defense against Indian attack–rightfully fearing that the citizens might use the cannon against his own troops–the Gonzales residents refused. “Come and take it!” they taunted, setting off a charge of old chains and scrap iron, shot from the mouth of the tiny cannon mounted on ox-cart wheels. Although the only casualty was one Mexican soldier, Gonzales became enshrined in history as the “Lexington of Texas.” The Texas Revolution was on.



1835

Nov 1

Godfrey Weitzel, (Union volunteers Major general, died in 1884), was born.



1835

Nov 4

Lunsford Lindsay Lomax (d.1913), Major General (Confederate Army), was born.



1835

Nov 13

Texans officially proclaimed Independence from Mexico, and called itself the Lone Star Republic, after its flag, until its admission to the Union in 1845. In 2001 Randy Roberts and James S. Olson authored “A Line in the Sand,” a narrative of the Texas drive for independence.



1835

Nov 15

HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reached Tahiti.



1835

Nov 16

Charles Darwin’s voyage account was published in Cambridge Philosophical Society.



1835

Nov 19

Fitzhugh Lee (d.1905), Major General (Confederate Army), was born.



1835

Nov 23

Henry Burden invented the first machine for manufacturing horseshoes. He then made most of the horseshoes for the Union Cavalry in the Civil War. Burden patented a Horseshoe manufacturing machine in Troy, NY.



1835

Nov 24

Texas Rangers, a mounted police force, was authorized by the Texas Provisional Government. The Mexicans called them Los Diablos Tejanos -The Texas Devils.



1835

Nov 25

Andrew Carnegie (d.1919), American industrialist, was born to a poor weaver in Dunfermline, Scotland. He emigrated to the US in 1848 and worked as a superintendent for the Pennsylvania Railroad. In invested in iron manufacturing, railroad cars and oil and moved into the steel business by 1873 where he improved quality and lowered costs. He sold his interests at age 65 and retired to Scotland. He donated $5 million to a pension fund for his workers and gave away an estimated $350 million over the next 2 decades for public libraries, church organs and other causes: There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money.”



1835

Nov 26

HMS Beagle left Tahiti for NZ.



1835

Nov 30

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (d.1910), author, — better known under his penname as Mark Twain — was born in Florida, Mo. In 1999 Ron Powers published “Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain.” “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn’t.” “Everybody’s private motto: It’s better to be popular than right.” “Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them, the rest of us could not succeed.” “Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.”



1835

Dec 1

Hans Christian Andersen published his 1st book of fairy tales.



1835

Dec 3

1st US mutual fire insurance company issued 1st policy in RI.



1835

Dec 4

Samuel Butler (d.1902), English writer and painter, was born. His work included “Erewhon” and “The Way of All Flesh.” “There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less an exception to the general rule.” “A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.” “Life is one long process of getting tired.”



1835

Dec 7

German railway Nurnberg-Furth opened.



1835

Dec 13

Phillips Brooks, the American Episcopal bishop, was born in Boston. He wrote the words to “O Little Town of Bethlehem.”



1835

Dec 16

A fire in New York City destroyed property estimated to be worth $20,000,000. Beginning in a store at Pearl and Merchant (Hanover) Streets, it lasted two days, ravaged 17 blocks (52 acres), and destroyed 674 buildings including the Stock Exchange, Merchants’ Exchange, Post Office, and the South Dutch Church. 13 acres were scorched. 23 of the city’s 26 fire-insurance companies were forced into bankruptcy.



1835

Dec 21

HMS Beagle sailed into Bay of Islands, New Zealand.



1835

Dec 25

Charles Darwin celebrated Christmas in Pahia, New Zealand.



1835

Dec 30

Cherokees were forced to move across the Mississippi River after gold was discovered in Georgia. A minority faction of Cherokee agreed to the emigration of the whole tribe from their lands by signing the Treaty of New Echota. The Treaty of New Echota resulted in the cession of all Cherokee land to the U.S. and provided for the transportation of the Cherokee Indians to land beyond the Mississippi. The removal of the Cherokee was completed by 1838.



1835

Dec 30

HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin sailed from NZ to Sydney.



1835



Bull baiting is banned.



1835



John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner establish a settlement at Port Phillip, now Melbourne.



1835



John Ryan Brenan, Esq. appointed Coroner for the Town of Sydney.



1835



In Britain, vaccination becomes mandatory.



1835



Britain and Spain renew agreement against the slave trade. British sea captains are authorized to arrest suspected Spanish slavers and bring them before mixed commissions established at Sierra Leone and Havana. Vessels carrying specified “equipment articles” (extra mess gear, lumber, foodstuffs) are declared prima-facie to be slavers.



1835



In the southern states of the United States, abolitionists are expelled and mailing anti-slavery literature is forbidden.



1835



Steamships appear on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.



1835



Samuel Colt of Connecticut receives a patent for his revolver in Europe.



1835



Karl Baedeker (1801-1859), German publisher, published “Travel on the Rhine.” It was later widely considered as the 1st modern guidebook.



1835



Hagop Melik-Agopian, Armenian novelist known as “Raffi”, helped develop a nationalist literature.



1835



John Lloyd Stephens authored “Incidents of Travel in Arabia Petra.”



1835



Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville (25) wrote “Democracy in America.” He had been dispatched by the French government to study America’s penal system. His book predicted that henceforth equality would always increase everywhere, and justice be thereby served in the life of mankind. He also foresaw that democratic man, no longer protected by traditional institutions, found himself in danger of being exposed to the absolute tyranny of the state that he himself had created, i.e. a case of totalitarianism. He also predicted that the extremes of social diversity would be lost and that more human beings would tend to cluster around a central norm. He stated that: “Americans of all ages, all conditions and all dispositions constantly form associations.” In 1938 George Wilson Pierson wrote “Tocqueville in America.”



1835



Frederic Chopin composed his Waltz #2 in C# Minor. Chronologically this was his 5th published waltz.



1835



The San Ysidro church was built on the outskirts of Santa Fe, NM. It was named after the patron saint of farmers.



1835



Pres. Andrew Jackson succeeded in retiring the national debt largely through the sale of public land.



1835



The 1825 Missouri abortion law was rewritten to prohibit instrumental abortions as well as those induced by poisons.



1835



There was a workers’    walkout and strike in Lowell, Mass.



1835



The Paine Furniture Co. began operations in Boston, Mass. It later moved to Cape Cod changed its name to Paine’s Patio.



1835



The New York Sun hired Richard Adams Locke, a Briton, as editor. He soon wrote an anonymous series about a new telescope and observations of the moon that included the mention of vast forests, fields of poppies and lunar animals. Circulation soared to 19,360. In 840 he admitted to writing the moon hoax series. In 2008 Matthew Goodman authored “the Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York.”



1835



Solomon Laurent Juneau, a fur trader, laid out the eastern part of Milwaukee and became the first president of the village in 1837. Juneau was born in Montreal and in 1818 settled on the site of Milwaukee and established a trading business. Juneau, who became a U.S.  citizen in 1831, was elected the city‘s first mayor in 1846.



1835



George Calvert Yount chose to settle in the heart of the Napa Valley at what is now called Yountville.



1835



Richard Henry Dana, writer, arrived in SF aboard the brig Pilgrim.



1835



Alexander Forbes served as the British vice-consul in Monterey, Ca.



1835



Ohio and Michigan engaged in “The Toledo War” (1835–1836), also known as the Ohio-Michigan War, a bloodless boundary dispute that was settled in 1836.



1835



Natural gas was used for cooking.



1835



Riley Whiting (b.1785), Connecticut clock maker, died.



1835



Orlando Reeves, a soldier, was shot with an arrow by a Seminole Indian warrior during a fight. The city of Orlando, Florida is named after Orlando Reeves.



1835



The Ottoman Porte divided Albanian-populated lands into vilayets of Janina, Manastir, Shkodra, and Kosova with Ottoman administrators.



1835



The French government prohibited political caricature.



1835



A foreign newspapers translation agency, set up by Charles-Louis Havas, became the Agence Havas, the first worldwide news agency.



1835



Madame Tussaud opened her London Wax Museum.



1835



Lt. Henry Creswicke Rawlinson (25) began examining the ancient inscriptions on the rock of Behistun in the Kurdish foothills of the Zagros mountain range. He soon found that they had been made to honor Darius the Great, Persian ruler in the 5th century BCE.



1835



Madagascar’s Queen Ranavalona I persecuted and expelled foreigners, including the island’s missionaries and extended her rule all over the island with her 20,000-man army.



1835



Trinity Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Russia, was consecrated. In 2006 a fire collapsed the central dome and one of four smaller cupolas surrounding it.



1835



The wooden Neve Shalom synagogue was built in Suriname.



1835



James Hogg (b.1770), Scottish writer, died. His novels included “The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner” (1824).



1835



The Vatican removed “On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres” (1543) by Nicholas Copernicus from its list of banned books.



1835-1853



The Lost Woman of San Nicolas. A report by a Captain Hubbard, whose schooner carried away the Indians of Ghalast-at, mentioned a girl who jumped into the sea and returned to the Island of San Nicolas. Records of a Captain Nidever record that 18 years later, a young woman living alone was picked up from San Nicolas. She was taken to the Santa Barbara Mission under the protection of Father Gonzales and died there. Her skirt of green cormorant feathers was sent to Rome. Her story is told by Scott O’Dell in his novel: Island of the Blue Dolphins.



1835-1868



Adah Isaacs Menken, a Jewish poet and actress, was born near New Orleans and learned French, German, Spanish and Hebrew in school. She shocked American and European audiences in the 1860s for her bold acting style and became notorious for her role in the play Mazeppa, where she appeared on stage barely clothed tied to the back of a running horse. Around 1856 she published her first book of poems and married Alexander Isaacs Menken, whose name she kept through divorce and subsequent remarriages and liaisons. Called the most perfectly developed woman in the world, she moved between Europe and the United States as she performed. Adah Isaacs Menken died of tuberculosis in Paris and was buried there in the Montparnasse Cemetery.



1835-1868



Lesotho acted as a buffer between the Afrikaner’s and British colonial interests and supplied seasonal farm workers to both.



1835-1909



Augusta Jane Evans, American novelist: “Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.”



1835-1916



Hetty Green, investor, was known as the “Witch of Wall street.” She began investing in the financials markets after inheriting some $10 million from her shi-owner father. She married a wealthy trader, Edward Green, who went bankrupt, but maintained her wealth with separate accounts. She refused to treat her son for a knee injury and the leg was amputated. She left about $100 million when she died.