1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).

Events

• January 1 – Ole Pedersen Hoiland breaks into the Bank of Norway and steals 64.000 dollars
• January 7 - HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago.
• January 30 - Unsuccessful assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol - first assassination attempt against a President of the United States.
• February 20 - Concepción, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake
• March 2 - Ferdinand becomes Emperor of Austria.
• April 18 - Lord Melbourne succeeds Sir Robert Peel as British Prime Minister.
• The Australian city of Melbourne is founded by John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner.
• May 5 - In Belgium a railway is opened between Brussels and Mechelen. It is the first railway in continental Europe. (See Rail transport in Belgium)
• September 7 – Charles Darwin arrives at Galapagos Islands aboard HMS Beagle
• October 2 - Texas Revolution begins: Battle of Gonzales - Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
• November 16 - Comet Halley reaches perihelion, its closest approach to the sun.
• December 1 - Hans Christian Andersen publishes first book of fairy tales
• December 7 - First German Railway between Nürnberg and Fürth named "der Adler" (The Eagle) (See History of rail transport in Germany)
• December 9 - The Army of the Republic of Texas captures San Antonio.
• December 28 - USA: Second Seminole War breaks out.

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• De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, Copernicus' book on the motion of the Earth, is removed from the Index of Prohibited Books.
• Samuel Colt patents the first revolver
• Civil war erupts in Uruguay between supporters of Blanco and Colorado parties
• Cachar Levy, forerunner of Assam Rifles, is founded in India
• The first Bulgarian-language school opens in the Ottoman Empire.
• The French word for their language changes to français, from françois

Births

• February 13 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Punjabi Muslim reformer (d. 1908)
• February 15 - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek International Olympic Committee president (d. 1908)
• February 18 - César Cui, Lithuanian composer (d. 1918)
• March 4 - John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (d. 1911)
• March 14 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (d. 1910)
• March 15 - Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (d. 1916)
• March 24 - Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist, mathematician, and poet (d. 1893)
• April 9 - King Léopold II of Belgium (d. 1909)
• May 3 - Alfred Austin, English poet (d. 1913)
• June 2 - Pope Pius X (d. 1914)
• July 7 - Ernest Giles, Australian explorer (d. 1897)
• July 10 - Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (d. 1880)
• July 27 - Giosue Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)
• August 2 - Elisha Gray, American inventor and businessman (d. 1901)
• October 7 - Felix Draeseke, German composer (d. 1913)
• October 9 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)
• October 23 - Adlai E. Stevenson, Vice President of the United States (d. 1914)
• October 31 - Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917)
• November 17 - Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (d. 1915)
• November 19 - Rani Lakshmi Bai, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1858)
• November 21 - Hetty Green, American businesswoman (d. 1916)
• November 25 - Andrew Carnegie, American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1919)
• November 29 - Empress Dowager Cixi of China (d. 1908)
• November 30 - Mark Twain, American author and humorist (d. 1910)
• December 4 - Samuel Butler, English writer (d. 1902)
• December 18 - Lyman Abbott, American clergyman and author (d. 1922)

Deaths

• February 15 - Henry Hunt, British politician (b. 1773)
• March 2 - Emperor Francis I of Austria (b. 1768)
• March 18 - Christian Gunther von Bernstorff, Danish and Prussian statesman and diplomat (b. 1769)
• April 8 - Wilhelm von Humboldt, German linguist and philosopher (b. 1767)
• April 21 - Samuel Slater, American industrialist (b. 1768)
• May 13 - John Nash, English architect (b. 1752)
• June 18 - William Cobbett, English journalist and author (b. 1763)
• July 28 - Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (b. 1768)
• September 23 - Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (b. 1801)

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