Events January–March January 7 – anchors off the Chonos Archipelago on her second voyage, with Charles Darwin on board as naturalist. January 8 – The United States public debt contracts to zero, for the only time in history. January 24 – Malê Revolt: African slaves of Yoruba Muslim origin revolt in Salvador, Bahia. January 26 – Queen Maria II of Portugal marries Auguste de Beauharnais, 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg, in Lisbon; he dies only two months later. January 26 – Saint Paul's in Macau largely destroyed by fire after a typhoon hits. January 30 – An assassination is attempted against United States President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol (the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States). February 1 – Slavery is abolished in Mauritius. February 20 – 1835 Concepción earthquake: Concepción, Chile, is destroyed by an earthquake; the resulting tsunami destroys the neighboring city of Talcahuano. March 2 – Ferdinand becomes Emperor of Austria. March 23 – The Academia Mexicana de la Lengua (Mexican Academy of Language) is established. April–June April 18 – Lord Melbourne succeeds Sir Robert Peel as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. May 5 Rail transport in Belgium: A railway is opened between Brussels and Mechelen, the first in continental Europe. Braulio Carrillo is sworn in as Head of State of Costa Rica. May 8 – Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection. begins publication. May 11 – Matua, High Priest (taura tupua) of the Polynesian island of Mangareva, is baptized into the Roman Catholic Church. May 13 – British barque Neva, transporting female convicts from Cork, Ireland, to Australia, is wrecked in the Bass Strait with the loss of 224 people and only 15 survivors. May 23 – The Mexican State of Aguascalientes is formed, by decree of President Santa Anna. June 1 – Kingston Penitentiary in Kingston, Ontario, opens. July–September July – Bertelsmann is founded by Carl Bertelsmann as a religious printer and publisher in Prussia. July 14 – The universal Catholic Apostolic Church is organized, initially in the U.K. July 28 – In Paris, the assassination of King Louis Philippe I of France is attempted by Giuseppe Marco Fieschi, using a home-made volley gun; 10 are killed, but the King escapes with a minor wound. August – H. Fox Talbot exposes the world's first known photographic negatives, at Lacock Abbey in England. August 25 –