WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO DECEMBER 1835
Find out what all happened May to December 1835

James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for sodomy in England. (27. November 1835)

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

Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the United States Army. (28. December 1835)

Great Fire of New York: Fire levels lower Manhattan. (17. December 1835)

The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia. (2. October 1835)

Melbourne is founded. (30. August 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)

Texas Revolution: The Texian Army captures San Antonio, Texas. (9. December 1835)

The Staedtler Company is founded in Nuremberg, Germany. (3. October 1835)

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

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

The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety). (24. November 1835)

The United Tribes of New Zealand is established with the signature of the Declaration of Independence. (28. October 1835)

P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States. (2. June 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 Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States. (29. December 1835)