Year by year · 19th century

1835

1835 in world history: 14 events, 10 births, 11 deaths, 7 works, 5 states founded and 3 that came to an end. 1,083 recorded states existed that year.

Events

  1. 30 January

    Andrew Jackson survives an assassination attempt

    At the US Capitol, the house painter Richard Lawrence fired two pistols at Jackson, but both misfired. It was the first known attempt to kill a sitting American president.

  2. 5 May

    Continental Europe's first passenger railway opens in Belgium

    Trains began running between Brussels and Mechelen on the first state-built passenger line on the European mainland. Newly independent Belgium soon had a national rail network.

    Belgium

  3. 30 August

    John Pascoe Fawkner's settlers land at the site of Melbourne

    Settlers sent by John Pascoe Fawkner went ashore on the Yarra River, building the first houses of what became Melbourne. It grew into Australia's second-largest city.

    Australia

  4. 15 September

    HMS Beagle reaches the Galápagos Islands

    Charles Darwin spent five weeks studying the islands' finches, tortoises and mockingbirds. His observations later helped shape his theory of evolution by natural selection.

  5. 2 October

    Texan settlers fire the first shots of the Texas Revolution

    At Gonzales, Texan colonists refused to hand back a small cannon to Mexican troops and fired on them beneath a flag reading 'Come and Take It'. The skirmish opened the war that led to Texan independence in 1836.

  6. 30 November

    Samuel Clemens, later Mark Twain, is born

    Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri. As Mark Twain he wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, drawing on his boyhood on the Mississippi.

  7. 29 December

    The Treaty of New Echota cedes Cherokee lands east of the Mississippi

    US commissioners and a small minority faction of Cherokee signed a treaty at New Echota, Georgia, ceding all Cherokee lands east of the Mississippi. Rejected by Principal Chief John Ross and most Cherokee, it led to the Trail of Tears.

    Treaty of New EchotaCherokee

  8. War

    War of the League

    The War of the League was a brief civil war in Costa Rica in September and October 1835.

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Wars and longer events

Born in 1835 10

Died in 1835 11

Works 7

States founded 5

States that came to an end 3

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