1835 - What happened in 1835 ?

January 1835

Wednesday 07:

HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago.

Friday 30:

A mentally ill man named Richard Lawrence attempts to assassinate President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol -- the first assassination attempt against a President. Both of Lawrence's pistols misfire, and Jackson proceeds to beat his would-be assassin with his cane.

February 1835

Friday 20:

Concepción, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake

May 1835

Tuesday 05:

In Belgium, the first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.

Wednesday 06:

James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.

June 1835

Tuesday 02:

P.T. Barnum and his circus begins first tour of the U.S.

August 1835

Tuesday 25:

The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax.

September 1835

Tuesday 15:

The HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands.

October 1835

Friday 02:

The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.

Wednesday 14:

1835 - John Templeton, John Moore, Stanley Cuthbart and Ellen Ritchie were charged in Wheeling, Virginia with illegally teaching blacks to read.

December 1835

Tuesday 01:

Hans Christian Andersen publishes first book of fairy tales

Wednesday 09:

The Army of the Republic of Texas captures San Antonio

Saturday 19:

Toledo Blade newspaper begins publishing.

Monday 28:

Osceola led his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the U.S. Army.