1839
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1839 is the 39th year of the 19th century and the 9th year of the 1830s.
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Art and culture
- The daguerreotype is presented to the French academy
- Honoré de Balzac uses the word "bohemian" for the first time to describe the new spontaneous, creative spirit.
- "The Devil in the Belfry" by American writer Edgar Allan Poe
- "William Wilson" by American writer Edgar Allan Poe
- "The Fall of the House of Usher" by American writer Edgar Allan Poe
- The phrase The pen is mightier than the sword is first used
- The Charterhouse of Parma, a novel by Stendhal
- The Ballad of Lenore, or The Dead Go Fast, a painting by Horace Vernet
- “Character Heads”, a lithograph by Matthias Rudolph Toma (1792-1869) of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s busts
- The Phantom Ship, a Gothic novel by Frederick Marryat
- Paris Salon of 1839
- The Poor Poet, a painting by Carl Spitzweg
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Births
- Walter Pater (1839 - 1894), British art critic
- Paul Cézanne (1839 – 1906), French painter
- Modesto Faustini (1839-1893)
- Alfred Sisley, British impressionist painter (1839 - 1899)
- Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1839 - 1902), German psychiatrist
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Deaths
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