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4 giorni fa · 1838 – Five nuns from the Religious Sisters of Charity in Ireland become the first women of religion to set foot on Australian soil. Southern Asia. December 1838 – First Anglo-Afghan War: British and Presidency armies set out from Punjab in support of Shah Shujah Durrani's claim to the throne of Afghanistan. India
4 giorni fa · By 1838, the British were selling roughly 1,400 tons of opium per year to China. Legalization of the opium trade was the subject of ongoing debate within the Chinese administration, but a proposal to legalise the narcotic was repeatedly rejected, and in 1838 the government began to actively sentence Chinese drug traffickers to death.
- 4 September 1839 – 29 August 1842, (2 years, 11 months, 3 weeks and 4 days)
- British victory
- China and South China Sea
- Hong Kong Island ceded to Britain
4 giorni fa · Franco-Prussian War. Battle of Saarbrücken. Battle of Sedan. Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed in absentia on 4 September 1870.
1 giorno fa · Robert M. T. Hunter. Whig. The 1838–39 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between July 2, 1838, and November 5, 1839. Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives before the first session of the 26th United States Congress convened on December 2, 1839.
5 giorni fa · 1838: First train ran: 1869–92: 7 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in (2,140 mm) Brunel gauge changed to 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge: 1903: Start of road motor services: 1923: Keeps identity though the Grouping: 1935: Centenary: 1948: Nationalised: Successor organisation; 1948: British Rail, Western Region
- First train ran
- Start of road motor services
- Act of Incorporation
- Paddington station, London
3 giorni fa · The Mexican War of 1846-1848, largely forgotten today, was the second costliest war in American history in terms of the percentage of soldiers who died. Of the 78, 718 American soldiers who served, 13,283 died, constituting a casualty rate of 16.87 percent.
5 giorni fa · Among Charles Dickens’s many works are the novels The Pickwick Papers (1837), Oliver Twist (1838), A Christmas Carol (1843), David Copperfield (1850), Bleak House (1853), and Great Expectations (1861). In addition, he worked as a journalist, writing numerous items on political and social affairs.
