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Movie history events from 1839
A mutiny occurs on a slave ship heading to the north-east of America. (Amistad)
5th March: Charlotte Bronte writes to the Reverend Henry Nussey, declining marriage. (Brontė)
2nd July: Africans on the Cuban schooner Amistad rise up against their captors, kill two crewmembers and seize control of the ship, which had been transporting them to a life of slavery on a sugar plantation at Puerto Principe, Cuba. (Amistad)
11th October: Her Majesty Queen Victoria holds a dinner party followed by a dance in honour of H.S.H. Prince Ernest and H.S.H. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Mr. Johann Strauss and his company of musicians once again have the honour of performing for Her Majesty. Victoria and Albert warm to one another during their first waltz together. Victoria informs Lord Melbourne that she has made up her mind and decides to propose marriage to Albert. (London England) (Victoria the Great)
December: Abraham Lincoln meets Mary Todd and receives a letter from Sturgess with the name of his first vampire target. (Springfield, Illinois) (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter)
5th December: Union General George Armstrong Custer is born. (Harrison County, Ohio) (They Died with Their Boots On)