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List of 1838 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1838

What happened in the year 1838?

Date Event
January 6, 1838 Alfred Vail and colleagues demonstrate a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
February 17, 1838 Weenen massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal are killed by Zulus.
April 16, 1838 The French Army captures Veracruz in the Pastry War.
April 30, 1838 Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.
June 10, 1838 Myall Creek massacre: Twenty-eight Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
June 28, 1838 Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
July 4, 1838 The Iowa Territory is organized.
July 15, 1838 Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
August 18, 1838 The Wilkes Expedition, which would explore the Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighs anchor at Hampton Roads.
September 1, 1838 Saint Andrew's Scots School, the oldest school of British origin in South America, is established.
September 3, 1838 Future abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery.
September 18, 1838 The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
October 5, 1838 The Killough massacre in east Texas sees eighteen Texian settlers either killed or kidnapped.
October 27, 1838 Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be killed.
November 3, 1838 The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
December 16, 1838 Great Trek: Battle of Blood River: Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius and Sarel Cilliers defeat Zulu impis, led by Dambuza (Nzobo) and Ndlela kaSompisi in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.