WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1835
Find out what all happened January to September 1835

The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, in the Latter Day Saint movement, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio. (14. February 1835)

Melbourne is founded. (30. August 1835)

Slavery is abolished in Mauritius. (1. February 1835)

HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago. (7. January 1835)

Concepción, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake. (20. February 1835)

HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipielago. (15. September 1835)

The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax. (25. August 1835)

The United States national debt is zero for the only time. (8. January 1835)

In Belgium, the first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen. (5. May 1835)

Slaves in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, stage a revolt, which is instrumental in ending slavery there 50 years later. (24. January 1835)

James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald. (6. May 1835)

The first constitutional law in modern Serbia is adopted. (15. February 1835)

In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen. (30. January 1835)

Ragamuffin rebels capture Porto Alegre, then capital of the Brazilian imperial province of Rio Grande do Sul, triggering the start of ten-year-long Ragamuffin War. (20. September 1835)

P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States. (2. June 1835)