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| 1838 |
| | | US author Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes Fanshawe, his first novel, at his own expense | |
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| 1838 |
| | | The Royal Exchange, rebuilt after the Great Fire, burns down again | |
|  | Royal Exchange, by Heath, 1838
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| 1839 |
| | | The London and Croydon railway links with the Greenwich railway | |
|  | London and Croydon Railway, 1839
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| 1839 |
| | | The British seize the strategic port of Aden and administer it as a province annexed to India | |
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| 1839 |
| | | Edgar Allan Poe publishes a characteristically gothic tale, The Fall of the House of Usher | |
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| 1839 |
| | | Mutiny by slaves on a Spanish vessel leads two years later to a significant abolitionist victory in the Amistad case | |
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| 1839 |
| | | A British army invades Afghanistan and instals a puppet ruler, Shuja Shah, as the Afghan amir | |
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| 1839 |
| | | Abd-el-Kader proclaims a holy war against the French in Algeria and begins a military campaign that will last for eight years | |
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| 1839 |
| | | Joseph Smith and the Mormons create the thriving town of Nauvoo in Illinois on the Mississippi | |
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| 1839 |
| | | Andries Pretorius sets up the Boer republic of Natalia, with its capital at Pietermaritzburg | |
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