Timeline: Malinda Abigail Barney: Our Family History

1838 - 1839 (1 year)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1837	4 Mar 1837—4 Mar 1841: Martin Van Buren U.S. Presidency
2	1838	28 Jun 1838—28 Jun 1838: Coronation of Queen Victoria at Westminster Abbey
3	1839	1839—1839: First Opium War between Britain and China (to 1842) - Britain captures Hong Kong 1839—1839: Scottish blacksmith Kirkpatrick MacMillan refines the primitive bicycle adding a mechanical crank drive to the rear wheel,thus creating the first true 'bicycle' in the modern Sense 1839—1839: Charles Goodyear invented vulcanized rubber