1839

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1839 was 32 years before the founding of the City of Birmingham and the 20th year of Alabama statehood. A serious drought began in August 1839 and was not relieved until late January 1840, leaving the Warrior River nearly dry at Tuscaloosa.

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In 1839, the Second Seminole War continued. The steam shovel was patented. The Great Fire of Mobile burned hundreds of buildings. The First Opium War began. Charles Goodyear vulcanized rubber.

Notable births in 1839 included painter Paul Cézanne, industrialist and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, and U.S. Army Captain George Armstrong Custer. Notable deaths included Queen Kaahumanu II of Hawaii, Ottoman sultan Mahmud II, geologist William Smith, inventor William Murdoch, and King Frederick VI of Denmark.

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