1835





Events

   * January 30 - Unsuccessful assassination attempt against President
     Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol -- first assassination
     attempt against a President of the United States.
   * March 2 - Ferdinand becomes Emperor of Austria
   * April 18 - Lord Melbourne succeeds Sir Robert Peel as British Prime
     Minister
   * May 6 - James Gordon Bennett publishes the first issue of the New York
     Herald.
   * July 4 - The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad completed construction of its
     Thomas Viaduct then the longest bridge in the United States, and second
     only to London Bridge in the world.
   * 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.

   * The Toledo War was fought between the State of Ohio and the Territory
     of Michigan over the city of Toledo.

Births

   * March 24 - Jo?ef Stefan, Slovene physicist, mathematician and poet (+
     1893)
   * March 29 - Gustaf Zander, physician (+ 1920)
   * April 9 - King Leopold II of the Belgians
   * October 9 - Camille Saint-Saens, composer

Deaths

   * March 2 - Emperor Francis I of Austria
   * September 23 - Vincenzo Bellini, aged 33, Italian composer

Heads of states

   * Ottoman Empire - Mahmud II Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808-1839)
   * Prussia - Frederick William III King of Prussia (1797-1840)