• The second of the Seminole Wars breaks out when Seminole chief Osceola and most of the tribe refuse to emmigrate from their homes in Florida to the Oklahoma territory.
• The HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin arrive in the Galapagos Islands, where Darwin will find crucial evidence for the existence of evolution.
• Hans Christian Andersen publishes the first of his famous fairy tales.
• In a series of six articles, the New York Sun perpetrates the "Great Moon Hoax Of 1835," convincing many that life has been discovered on the Moon.

These people were born in 1835:

• American author and humorist Mark Twain.
• Chinese Dowager Empress Cixi.
• Belgian king Léopold II.
• Japanese revolutionary Sakamoto Ryoma.
• American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

These people died in 1835:

• Austrian emperor Francis I.
• Japanese physician Hanaoka Seishu, first to conduct surgery using general anesthesia, 38 years before it was first used in the West by Crawford Long, his anesthetic is still in clinical use in hospitals around the world to this day.

1834 - 1835 - 1836

19th century

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