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| 1838 |
| | | Civil war breaks out in Uruguay between the Reds and the Whites, followers respectively of Rivera and Oribe | |
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| 1838 |
| | | The river Ncome becomes known as the Blood River after thousands of Zulu die attacking Andries Pretorius and the Boers | |
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| 1838 |
| | | Seven Manchester merchants and mill-owners found the Anti-Corn Law League | |
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| 1838 |
| | | US naval officer Charles Wilkes leads a four-year exploration of the Antarctic and Pacific, proving on the way that Antarctica is a continent | |
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| 1838 |
| | | In his Divinity School Address, delivered at Harvard, Ralph Waldo Emerson criticizes formal religion and gives priority to personal spiritual experience | |
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| 1838 |
| | | US author Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes Fanshawe, his first novel, at his own expense | |
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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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