Explore the major historical events, famous births, and notable deaths that occurred in the year 1835. This year saw 49 significant events. 2 notable figures were born.
The history of the United States public debt began with federal government debt incurred during the American Revolutionary War by the first U.S treasurer, Michael Hillegas, after the country's…
Dona Maria II (Maria da Glória Joana Carlota Leopoldina da Cruz Francisca Xavier de Paula Isidora Micaela Gabriela Rafaela Gonzaga de Habsburgo-Lorena e Bragança; 4 April 1819 – 15 November 1853)…
Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's fairy tales,...
Soldier and politician Jefferson Davis (27) weds Sarah Knox Taylor (21) in Louisville, Kentucky
Swedish-American inventor John Ericsson files for a patent for his screw propeller design
American leading transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson (33) marries 2nd wife Lydia (Lidian) Jackson in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
The Galápagos tortoise (Chelonoidis niger), also called the Galápagos giant tortoise, is a very large species of tortoise in the genus Chelonoidis (which also contains three smaller species from...
Treaty of New Echota is signed between the US government and representatives of a minority Cherokee political faction, ceding all Cherokee lands east of the Mississippi River to the United States
HMS Beagle anchors off Chonos Archipelago
Marino Faliero (or Marin Faliero) is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti.
Concepcion, Chile, destroyed by earthquake; 5,000 die
The Shawnee Sun (Shawnee: Siwinowe Kesibwi) newspaper was published in the Shawnee language from 1835 to 1844, in the portion of Indian Territory that became Kansas.
Dr Elias L"nnrot publishes Finnish poem "Kalevala"
Congress authorizes a US mint at New Orleans, Louisiana; coins identified with mint mark 'O'
HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepcion (Chile)
HMS Beagle returns from Concepcion to Valparaiso
HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile
Belgium was heavily involved in the early development of railway transport. Belgium was the second country in Europe, after Great Britain, to open a railway and produce locomotives.
The Kingdom of Greece was the Greek monarchy established in 1832 and was the successor to the First Hellenic Republic.
6th national black convention (Philadelphia)
New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or The Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the fourth-most populous city in California and the 17th-most populous in the United States, with a population of 827,526 in 2024.
Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers in Hebron, Palestine
Kōloa is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kauaʻi County, Hawaiʻi, United States. The population was 2,231 at the 2020 census, up from 1,942 at the 2000 census.
Assassination attempt on French King Louis-Philippe in Paris, masterminded by Giuseppe Marco Fieschi, kills 18 people with a 25-barrel volley gun; the king survives
The Old Sugar Mill of Kōloa was part of the first commercially successful sugarcane plantation in Hawaiʻi, which was founded in Kōloa on the island of Kauaʻi in 1835 by Ladd & Company.
Mob of white people and oxen pull Black school to a swamp out of Canaan, NH
George B. Airy begins a 46-year tenure as England's Astronomer Royal
Solymon Merrick of Springfield, Massachusetts, patents the first wrench
Last Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago
The city of Melbourne was founded in 1835. The exact circumstances of the foundation of Melbourne, and the question of who should take credit, have long been matters of dispute.
Rio Grande do Sul du ˈsuw] ; lit. "Great River of the South") is a state in the southern region of Brazil.
HMS Beagle sails to Charles Island in Galapagos archipelago
Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Lucia di Lammermoor" premieres at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (now Italy)
The Battle of Gonzales was the first military engagement of the Texas Revolution. It was fought near Gonzales, Texas, on October 2, 1835, between rebellious Texian settlers and a detachment of...
Staedtler SE is a German multinational stationery manufacturing company based in Nuremberg. The firm was founded by J.S.
The Royal College, Colombo, is established with the name Hillstreet Academy in Sri Lanka
HMS Beagle leaves Galapagos Archipelago to sail to Tahiti
Battle of Concepción: rebels led by James Bowie and James Fannin defeat Mexican troops at Mission Concepción, 2 miles (3.2 km) south of what is now San Antonio, Texas
A ship carrying 500 armed Maori from Ngati Tama and Ngati Mutunga arrives on the Chatham Islands; those Moriori (indigenous people of the Chatham Islands) that are not killed are enslaved
Henry Burden (April 22, 1791 – January 19, 1871) was an engineer and businessman who built an industrial complex in Troy, New York called the Burden Iron Works.
Texas Rangers, mounted police force authorized by Texas Provisional Government
HMS Beagle leaves Tahiti for New Zealand
First US mutual fire insurance company issues first policy (Rhode Island)
Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez (21 February 1794 – 21 June 1876), often known as Santa Anna, was a Mexican general, politician, and caudillo who served as the 8th...
The Bavarian Ludwig Railway (Bayerische Ludwigseisenbahn or Ludwigsbahn) was the first steam-hauled railway opened in Germany.
Fire consumes over 600 buildings in NYC
The Bay of Islands (Māori: Te Pēwhairangi) is an area on the east coast of the Far North District of the North Island of New Zealand.
Second Seminole War between United States and Native Americans begins with the Dade Massacre in Sumter County, Florida; Senminole fighters kill nearly all 110 of US Army troops under Major Francis Langhorne Dade [1] [2]
Leopold II of Belgium is born
Camille Saint-Saëns, French musician, known for french composer, was born on 1835-10-09. Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era.
The history of the United States public debt began with federal government debt incurred during the American Revolutionary War by the first U.S treasurer, Michael Hillegas, after the country's…
Dona Maria II (Maria da Glória Joana Carlota Leopoldina da Cruz Francisca Xavier de Paula Isidora Micaela Gabriela Rafaela Gonzaga de Habsburgo-Lorena e Bragança; 4 April 1819 – 15 November 1853)…
Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's fairy tales,...
Soldier and politician Jefferson Davis (27) weds Sarah Knox Taylor (21) in Louisville, Kentucky
Swedish-American inventor John Ericsson files for a patent for his screw propeller design
American leading transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson (33) marries 2nd wife Lydia (Lidian) Jackson in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
The Galápagos tortoise (Chelonoidis niger), also called the Galápagos giant tortoise, is a very large species of tortoise in the genus Chelonoidis (which also contains three smaller species from...
Treaty of New Echota is signed between the US government and representatives of a minority Cherokee political faction, ceding all Cherokee lands east of the Mississippi River to the United States
HMS Beagle anchors off Chonos Archipelago
Marino Faliero (or Marin Faliero) is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti.
Concepcion, Chile, destroyed by earthquake; 5,000 die
The Shawnee Sun (Shawnee: Siwinowe Kesibwi) newspaper was published in the Shawnee language from 1835 to 1844, in the portion of Indian Territory that became Kansas.
Dr Elias L"nnrot publishes Finnish poem "Kalevala"
Congress authorizes a US mint at New Orleans, Louisiana; coins identified with mint mark 'O'
HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepcion (Chile)
HMS Beagle returns from Concepcion to Valparaiso
HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile
Belgium was heavily involved in the early development of railway transport. Belgium was the second country in Europe, after Great Britain, to open a railway and produce locomotives.
The Kingdom of Greece was the Greek monarchy established in 1832 and was the successor to the First Hellenic Republic.
6th national black convention (Philadelphia)
New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or The Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the fourth-most populous city in California and the 17th-most populous in the United States, with a population of 827,526 in 2024.
Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers in Hebron, Palestine
Kōloa is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kauaʻi County, Hawaiʻi, United States. The population was 2,231 at the 2020 census, up from 1,942 at the 2000 census.
Assassination attempt on French King Louis-Philippe in Paris, masterminded by Giuseppe Marco Fieschi, kills 18 people with a 25-barrel volley gun; the king survives
The Old Sugar Mill of Kōloa was part of the first commercially successful sugarcane plantation in Hawaiʻi, which was founded in Kōloa on the island of Kauaʻi in 1835 by Ladd & Company.
Mob of white people and oxen pull Black school to a swamp out of Canaan, NH
George B. Airy begins a 46-year tenure as England's Astronomer Royal
Solymon Merrick of Springfield, Massachusetts, patents the first wrench
Last Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago
The city of Melbourne was founded in 1835. The exact circumstances of the foundation of Melbourne, and the question of who should take credit, have long been matters of dispute.
Rio Grande do Sul du ˈsuw] ; lit. "Great River of the South") is a state in the southern region of Brazil.
HMS Beagle sails to Charles Island in Galapagos archipelago
Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Lucia di Lammermoor" premieres at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (now Italy)
The Battle of Gonzales was the first military engagement of the Texas Revolution. It was fought near Gonzales, Texas, on October 2, 1835, between rebellious Texian settlers and a detachment of...
Staedtler SE is a German multinational stationery manufacturing company based in Nuremberg. The firm was founded by J.S.
The Royal College, Colombo, is established with the name Hillstreet Academy in Sri Lanka
HMS Beagle leaves Galapagos Archipelago to sail to Tahiti
Battle of Concepción: rebels led by James Bowie and James Fannin defeat Mexican troops at Mission Concepción, 2 miles (3.2 km) south of what is now San Antonio, Texas
A ship carrying 500 armed Maori from Ngati Tama and Ngati Mutunga arrives on the Chatham Islands; those Moriori (indigenous people of the Chatham Islands) that are not killed are enslaved
Henry Burden (April 22, 1791 – January 19, 1871) was an engineer and businessman who built an industrial complex in Troy, New York called the Burden Iron Works.
Texas Rangers, mounted police force authorized by Texas Provisional Government
HMS Beagle leaves Tahiti for New Zealand
First US mutual fire insurance company issues first policy (Rhode Island)
Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez (21 February 1794 – 21 June 1876), often known as Santa Anna, was a Mexican general, politician, and caudillo who served as the 8th...
The Bavarian Ludwig Railway (Bayerische Ludwigseisenbahn or Ludwigsbahn) was the first steam-hauled railway opened in Germany.
Fire consumes over 600 buildings in NYC
The Bay of Islands (Māori: Te Pēwhairangi) is an area on the east coast of the Far North District of the North Island of New Zealand.
Second Seminole War between United States and Native Americans begins with the Dade Massacre in Sumter County, Florida; Senminole fighters kill nearly all 110 of US Army troops under Major Francis Langhorne Dade [1] [2]