Timeline January 1839

Events in January 1839 2

• 1839 British forces capture Aden East India Company seizes a port on the Arabian coast A British East India Company naval force captured the port of Aden from local rulers, establishing a coaling and garrison station on the route to India. Aden remained under British control for more than a century afterward. The seizure followed the plunder of a shipwrecked British vessel near the port.
• 1839 – 1906 Paul Cézanne Post-Impressionism · France Paul Cézanne (January 19, 1839 – October 22, 1906) was a French Post-Impressionist whose geometric approach to form and colour became the bridge between 19th-century Impressionism and 20th-century Cubism. Picasso called him the father of us all.