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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       
1838
 
    
US inventor Samuel Morse gives the first public demonstration, in Philadelphia, of his electric telegraph       
1838
 
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During a ceremony to celebrate their treaty with Dingaan, Piet Retief and his Boer companions are overpowered and killed       
1838
 
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Dingaan's warriors massacre Boer families in a series of dawn raids near the Bloukrans river       
1838
 
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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      
1838
 
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The Central American Federation splits into Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica      
1838
 
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The London Prize Ring rules disallow kicking, gouging, head-butting and biting in the sport of boxing       
1838
 
    
John James Audubon completes publication of the 435 plates forming his 4-volume Birds of America       
1838
 
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The People's Charter, with its six political demands, launches the Chartist movement in England       
1838
 
    
J.M.W. Turner paints an icon of British art, The Fighting Téméraire       
Turner The Fighting Temeraire (detail) 1838
National Gallery, London

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