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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

July - December

  • August 25 - In US, the New York Sun prints issue 1 of 6 for the Great Moon Hoax.
  • September 7 - Charles Darwin arrives at the Galapagos Islands aboard HMS Beagle.
  • September 20 - Farroupilha's Revolution begins in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
  • October 2 - Texas Revolution begins: Battle of Gonzales - Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
  • 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 first book of fairy tales.
  • December 7 - 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 first signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence at Goliad, Texas.
  • December 28 - USA: Second Seminole War breaks out.

    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 spawned Agence France-Presse)
  • English becomes official language of India.

    Births

    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)

    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 18 - Lyman Abbott, American clergyman and author (d. 1922) » See also .

    Deaths

  • February 15 - Henry Hunt, British politician (b. 1773)
  • March 2 - Emperor Francis I of Austria (b. 1768)
  • March 18 - Christian Gunther von Bernstorff, Danish and Prussian statesman and diplomat (b. 1769)
  • April 8 - Wilhelm von Humboldt, German linguist and philosopher (b. 1767)
  • April 21 - Samuel Slater, American industrialist (b. 1768)
  • May 13 - John Nash, English architect (b. 1752)
  • June 18 - William Cobbett, English journalist and author (b. 1763)
  • July 6 - John Marshall, influential American chief justice (b. 1755)
  • July 28 - Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (b. 1768)
  • September 23 - Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (b. 1801)
  • December 13 - John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1760)
  • December 17 - Pierre Louis Roederer, French politician, economist, and historian (b. 1754) » See also .

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