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| 1838 |
| | | John James Audubon completes publication of the 435 plates forming his 4-volume Birds of America | |
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| 1838 |
| | | The People's Charter, with its six political demands, launches the Chartist movement in England | |
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| 1838 |
| | | J.M.W. Turner paints an icon of British art, The Fighting Téméraire | |
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| 1838 |
| | | The Public Records Act creates the Public Record Office with headquarters in existing buildings on the Rolls Estate in Chancery Lane, in the City of London | |
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| 1838 |
| | | Civil war breaks out in Uruguay between the Reds and the Whites, followers respectively of Rivera and Oribe | |
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| 1838 |
| | | The river Ncome becomes known as the Blood River after thousands of Zulu die attacking Andries Pretorius and the Boers | |
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| 1838 |
| | | Pugin designs St Chad's in Birmingham, completed in 1841 and the first cathedral built in England since Christopher Wren's St Paul's | |
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| 1838 |
| | | Seven Manchester merchants and mill-owners found the Anti-Corn Law League | |
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| 1838 |
| | | US naval officer Charles Wilkes leads a four-year exploration of the Antarctic and Pacific, proving on the way that Antarctica is a continent | |
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| 1838 |
| | | In his Divinity School Address, delivered at Harvard, Ralph Waldo Emerson criticizes formal religion and gives priority to personal spiritual experience | |
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