Important Historical Events of the year 1839, Year 1839 in History

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What happened in the year 1839?

Date	Event
January 6, 1839	The Night of the Big Wind, the most damaging storm in 300 years, sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
January 9, 1839	The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
January 19, 1839	The British East India Company captures Aden.
January 20, 1839	In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats an alliance between Peru and Bolivia.
March 23, 1839	A massive earthquake destroys the former capital Inwa of the Konbaung dynasty, present-day Myanmar.
March 26, 1839	The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
April 19, 1839	The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guarantees its neutrality.
June 3, 1839	In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kilograms of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
June 14, 1839	Henley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley-on-Thames, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first regatta.
June 17, 1839	In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace are established as a result.
June 22, 1839	Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
July 2, 1839	Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 kidnapped Africans led by Joseph Cinqué mutiny and take over the slave ship Amistad.
July 3, 1839	The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State University, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with three students.
August 19, 1839	The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift "free to the world".
August 23, 1839	The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for the First Opium War with Qing China.
September 4, 1839	Battle of Kowloon: British vessels open fire on Chinese war junks enforcing a food sales embargo on the British community in China in the first armed conflict of the First Opium War.
September 5, 1839	The United Kingdom declares war on the Qing dynasty of China.
September 9, 1839	John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
November 4, 1839	Newport Rising: The last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
November 11, 1839	The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
November 25, 1839	A cyclone slams into south-eastern India, with high winds and a 12-metre (40 ft) storm surge destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave swept inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths resulted from the disaster.
November 27, 1839	In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.