Important Historical Events of the year 1835, Year 1835 in History

List of 1835 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1835

What happened in the year 1835?

Date Event
January 7, 1835 HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
January 8, 1835 US President Andrew Jackson announces a celebratory dinner after having reduced the United States national debt to zero for the only time.
January 24, 1835 Slaves in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, stage a revolt, which is instrumental in ending slavery there 50 years later.
January 30, 1835 In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen as well as Jackson himself.
February 1, 1835 Slavery is abolished in Mauritius.
February 14, 1835 The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, in the Latter Day Saint movement, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.
February 15, 1835 Serbia's Sretenje Constitution briefly comes into effect.
February 20, 1835 The 1835 Concepción earthquake destroys Concepción, Chile.
February 28, 1835 Elias Lönnrot signed and dated the first version of the Kalevala, the so-called foreword to the Old Kalevala.
May 5, 1835 The first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
May 6, 1835 James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
June 2, 1835 P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
August 25, 1835 The first Great Moon Hoax article is published in The New York Sun, announcing the discovery of life and civilization on the Moon.
August 30, 1835 Australia: Melbourne, Victoria is founded.
September 15, 1835 HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipelago.
September 20, 1835 The decade-long Ragamuffin War starts when rebels capture Porto Alegre in Brazil.
October 2, 1835 Texas Revolution: Mexican troops attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
October 28, 1835 The United Tribes of New Zealand are established with the signature of the Declaration of Independence.
November 12, 1835 Construction is completed on the Wilberforce Monument in Kingston Upon Hull.
November 24, 1835 The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).
November 27, 1835 James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for sodomy in England.
December 9, 1835 Texas Revolution: The Texian Army captures San Antonio following the Siege of Béxar.
December 17, 1835 The second Great Fire of New York destroys 53,000 square metres (13 acres) of New York City's Financial District.
December 28, 1835 Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the United States Army.
December 29, 1835 The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States.