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| 1838 |
| | | A terminus is built at Paddington for the Great Western railway | |
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| 1838 |
| | | An Irish packet steamer, the Sirius, becomes the first steamship to cross the Atlantic, completing the journey to New York in 19 days | |
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| 1838 |
| | | Brunel's Great Western, a wooden paddle-steamer, arives in New York the day after the Sirius, with the record for an Atlantic crossing already reduced to 15 days | |
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| 1838 |
| | | US inventor Samuel Morse gives the first public demonstration, in Philadelphia, of his electric telegraph | |
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| 1838 |
| | | During a ceremony to celebrate their treaty with Dingaan, Piet Retief and his Boer companions are overpowered and killed | |
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| 1838 |
| | | Dingaan's warriors massacre Boer families in a series of dawn raids near the Bloukrans river | |
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| 1838 |
| | | Five American Indian tribes are forcibly escorted to a new Indian Territory west of the Mississippi in the process that becomes known as the Great Removal | |
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| 1838 |
| | | Queen Victoria opens Hampton Court Palace to the public | |
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| 1838 |
| | | The Central American Federation splits into Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica | |
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| 1838 |
| | | The London Prize Ring rules disallow kicking, gouging, head-butting and biting in the sport of boxing | |
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