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1839 was a year.
Events
19-year-old Malcolm Fraser joined the Indian Army. (GAME: "Colonel Fraser" [+]Part of The Iytean Menace, J. Andrew Keith, The Doctor Who Role Playing Game (FASA, 1985).)
Other
1839 was the last time that Professor George Litefoot's Birmingham-made fowling piece had been fired before he encountered the Fourth Doctor in 1889. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
According to the Twelfth Doctor, India in 1839 smelled of lotus flowers, jasmine, ripe mangos, flame-of-the-forest trees, burning fires, spices, and a tinge of cow dung. (COMIC: The Swords of Kali)