1838
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1838 is the 38th year of the 19th century and the 8th year of the 1830s.
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Art and culture
- Paris Salon of 1838
- Frederick Douglass
- Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a free Black seaman, future abolitionist Frederick Douglass boards a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from slavery.
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Literature
- One of Cleopatra's Nights, a novella by Théophile Gautier
- The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans, a novel by Honoré de Balzac
- The Devil's Memoirs, a novel by French writer Frédéric Soulié
- "Un pauvre honteux", a poem by French writer Xavier Forneret
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Art
- Etude de nègre by Théodore Chassériau
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Photography
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Births
- March 26 – William Edward Hartpole Lecky, Irish historian (History of European Morals) (d. 1903)
- Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838 - 1889), French writer
- Samuel Bing (1838 - 1905), German art dealer
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Deaths
- February 21 - Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, French linguist, orientalist (b. 1758)
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