
1839 - 1839 (0 years)
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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1833 | - 1833—1839:
SA - Approximately 750 juveniles brought to the Cape as apprentices.
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| 2 | 1839 | - 1839—1839:
SA - Dutch Reformed Church parishes founded in Bredasdorp and Riversdale. Potchefstroom founded.
- 1839—1839:
First Opium War between Britain and China (to 1842) - Britain captures Hong Kong
- 1839—1839:
Scottish blacksmith Kirkpatrick MacMillan refines the primitive bicycle adding a
mechanical crank drive to the rear wheel,thus creating the first true 'bicycle' in the modern
Sense
- 1839—1839:
Charles Goodyear invented vulcanized rubber
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