List of 1835 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1835
Date | Event |
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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. |