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1824 (MDCCCXXIV) was
a leap year starting
on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and
a leap year
starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1824th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
824th year of the 2nd millennium,
the 24th year of the 19th century,
and the 5th year of the 1820s decade. As of
the start of 1824, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January–March[edit] ·
January 8 – After much
controversy, Michael Faraday is
finally elected as a member of the Royal Society, with only one vote against
him. ·
January 22 – The Ashanti crush British forces in
the Gold Coast,
killing the British governor Sir Charles MacCarthy(see also Wars between Britain and
Ashanti in Ghana and Ashanti Confederacy). ·
January 24 – The first issue of the
radical quarterly founded by Jeremy Bentham, The Westminster Review,
is published in London. ·
February 10 – Simón Bolívar is
proclaimed dictator of Peru. ·
February 21 – The Chumash Revolt of
1824 begins against the Spanish presence in California. ·
March 5 – The First
Anglo-Burmese War begins. ·
March 7 – The Florida State
Capitol moves from St. Augustine to Tallahassee. ·
March 11 – The United
States War Department creates the Bureau of Indian
Affairs. ·
March 17 – The Anglo-Dutch
Treaty of 1824 is signed. April–June[edit] ·
April 9 – The first permanent settlers
arrive to construct the new city of Tallahassee, Florida,
selected to be the capital of the Florida Territory newly
acquired from the Kingdom of Spain; the area was selected because it is
roughly equidistant from the territory's main cities, Pensacola and St. Augustine.[1] ·
April 19 – Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron), the
British poet, dies at the age of 36 in the Greek city of Missolonghi, where he had taken ill while
making plans to liberate the Greeks from Ottoman rule, "not in combat,
but of a fever caught in the unhealthy conditions at Missolonghi... exacerbated,
it is generally agreed, by the over-zealous actions of his doctors, who bled him excessively." [2] ·
May 7 – Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (the
"Choral") premieres at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna. The deaf composer has
to be turned around on the stage, to witness the enthusiastic audience
reaction. ·
May 24 – First
Anglo-Burmese War: The British take Rangoon, Burma. ·
June 16 – The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is
established in Great Britain. July–September[edit] ·
July 2 – The Confederation
of the Equator begins in Pernambuco, Brazil:
Wealthy landowners against the government of Emperor Pedro I initiate a secessionist
movement for the independence of Pernambuco. ·
July 10 – Gilbert
du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette and
a beloved hero of the American Revolution, departs from the port of Le Havre in France on the ship HMS Cadmus for a triumphant
return to the United States;
he arrives in New York on August 15.[3] ·
July 13 – King Kamehameha II of Hawaii dies of measles, during a visit to the United Kingdom, before he can meet with King
George IV.[4] Because
of the slow communications of the era, news of the King's death doesn't reach
Hawaii until the following March; his funeral will
take place on May 11, 1825.
His wife, Queen Kaʻahumanu, who had served
as regent during his absence, reigns until
her death in 1832.[5] ·
July 19 – Don Agustín de Iturbide, who had formerly
been President of Mexico and
then proclaimed himself Emperor Agustin the First, until being overthrown
on March 19, 1823,
is executed by a firing squad in the city of Padilla, five days after
returning from exile in England.[6][7] ·
August 4 – The Battle of Kos is fought
between Turkish and Greek forces. ·
August 6 – Peruvian War
of Independence – Battle of Junín:
Pro-independence forces defeat the Spanish, in the highlands of the Junín
Region. ·
August 16 – Lafayette visits the United States,
departing on September 7, 1825. ·
September 13 – With his crew and
29 convicts aboard the Amity, John Oxley arrives at and founds
the Moreton Bay
Penal Settlement at what is now Redcliffe in Queensland, Australia, after leaving Sydney. ·
September 16 – Charles X succeeds
his brother Louis XVIII,
as King of France. October–December[edit] ·
October 4 – The First
Constitution of Mexico is enacted, declaring the country to
be a federal republic. ·
October 10 – The Edinburgh Town Council founds the
Edinburgh Municipal Fire Brigade, the first fire brigade in Britain, under the
leadership of James
Braidwood. ·
October 21 – Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement. ·
November 5 – Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, the first technological
university in the English-speaking world, is founded in Troy, New York. ·
November 19 [O.S. November
7] – In the worst flood to
date in Saint Petersburg,
water rises 421 centimetres (166 in) above
normal, and 200 lose their lives. ·
November 30 – The first sod is turned
in Ontario, for the first of four Welland Canals (the canal opens for a
trial run exactly five years later to the day). ·
December 3 – U.S.
presidential election, 1824: None of the four candidates for U.S.
President gain a majority of the electoral votes, so the election is thrown
into the U.S. House
of Representatives. ·
December 9 – Battle of Ayacucho:
Peruvian forces defeat the Spanish. ·
December 23 – Chief Pushmataha of the Choctaw Nation dies in Washington. ·
December 24 – The First American
fraternity, Chi Phi (ΧΦ),
is founded at Princeton University. ·
December 28 – The Bathurst War comes to an end, with the
defeat of the Wiradjuri. Date unknown[edit] ·
The
Egyptians capture Crete. ·
The Montparnasse
Cemetery is established in Paris, France. ·
The
Dutch sign the Masang Agreement, temporarily ending
hostilities in the Padri War. ·
The
name Australia, recommended by Matthew Flinders in 1804,
is finally adopted as the official name of the country once known as New Holland. ·
The Panoramagram is
invented as the first stereoscopic viewer. ·
The Fort Vancouver trading post is
established on the lower Columbia River by the Hudson's Bay Company. ·
The Colorado potato
beetle is first described, by Thomas Say. Births[edit] January–June[edit]
William
Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin ·
January 7 – Julia Kavanagh, Irish novelist (d. 1877) ·
January 8 – Wilkie Collins,
British novelist (d. 1889) ·
January 15 – Marie Duplessis, French courtesan (d. 1847) ·
January 21 – Thomas Jonathan
"Stonewall" Jackson, American Confederate general
(d. 1863) ·
February 7 – William Huggins, British astronomer
(d. 1910) ·
February 8 – Barnard Elliott
Bee, Jr., American Confederate general (d. 1861) ·
February 12 – Dayananda Saraswati, Hindu religious leader, Vedic
scholar who founded the reform movement Arya Samaj (d. 1883) ·
February 14 – Winfield Scott
Hancock, American Civil War Union general, Democratic presidential
candidate (d. 1886) ·
February 16 – Peter Kosler,
Slovenian cartographer, geographer (d. 1879) ·
February 27 – Prince Kuni Asahiko of
Japan (d. 1891) ·
March 2 – Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (d. 1885) ·
March 9 – Amasa Leland Stanford, Governor of
California (d. 1893) ·
March 12 – Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (d. 1887) ·
March 19 – William Allingham,
Irish author (d. 1889) ·
March 22 – Charles Pfizer, German-American chemist,
co-founder of Pfizer (d. 1906) ·
March 25 – Clinton L. Merriam,
American politician (d. 1900) ·
March 26 – Julie-Victoire Daubié, French journalist (d. 1874) ·
March 27 – Johann Wilhelm
Hittorf, German physicist (d. 1914) ·
April 6 – George
Waterhouse, 7th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1906) ·
April 13 – William
Alexander, Anglican bishop, Primate of All Ireland (d. 1911) ·
May 6 – Tokugawa Iesada,
13th shōgun of Tokugawa shogunate of
Japan (d. 1858) ·
May 9 – Jacob ben Moses
Bachrach, noted Polish-born apologist of Rabbinic Judaism
(d. 1896) ·
May 16 – Levi P. Morton, 22nd Vice
President of the United States (d. 1920) ·
May 23 – Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general, inventor, politician from Rhode Island (d. 1881) ·
June 7 – Bernhard von Gudden, German neuroanatomist, psychiatrist
(d. 1886) ·
June 20 – George Edmund Street,
British architect (d. 1881) ·
June 26 – William
Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist, engineer
(d. 1907) ·
June 28 – Paul Broca, French
physician, anthropologist (d. 1880) ·
July 12 – Eugène Boudin, French painter (d. 1898) July–December[edit]
·
July 21 – Stanley
Matthews, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States (d. 1889) ·
July 27 – Alexandre Dumas, fils, French writer (d. 1895) ·
August 3 – William Burnham
Woods, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States (d. 1887) ·
August 7 – Gideon T. Stewart,
American temperance movement leader (d. 1907) ·
Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (d. 1896) ·
Phoebe Cary, American poet, sister to Alice
Cary (1820–1871) (d. 1871) ·
September 27 – Benjamin Apthorp Gould, American astronomer (d. 1896) ·
October 2 – Henry C. Lord, American railroad executive
(d. 1884) ·
October 5 – Henry Chadwick,
English-born American baseball writer, historian (d. 1908) ·
October 18 – Juan Valera
y Alcalá-Galiano, Spanish author
(d. 1905) ·
October 27 – Edward Maitland, British writer (d. 1897) ·
November 24 – Frederick Miller, German-American brewer,
businessman (d. 1888) ·
December 10 – George MacDonald, Scottish writer (d. 1905) ·
December 11 – Jonathan Letterman,
American surgeon, "Father of Battlefield Medicine" (d. 1872) ·
December 14 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d. 1898) ·
December 18 – John
Hall, 12th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1907) ·
December 27 – Charlotta Norberg, Swedish ballerina (d. 1892) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit]
·
January 21 – Jean-Baptiste
Drouet, French revolutionary (b. 1765) ·
January 26 – Théodore Géricault, French painter (b. 1791) ·
February 9 – Anne Catherine
Emmerich, German Augustinian Canoness, mystic, Marian visionary,
ecstatic and stigmatist (b. 1774) ·
February 21 – Eugène de
Beauharnais, son of Joséphine de Beauharnais (b. 1781) ·
April 19 – George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron,
English poet (b. 1788) ·
May 15 – Johann
Philipp Stadion, Count von Warthausen,
German statesman (b. 1763) ·
May 26 – Capel Lofft,
English writer (b. 1751) ·
May 29 – Jean-Baptiste Willermoz, French Freemason (b. 1730) ·
June 16 – Charles-François
Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul
of France (b. 1739) ·
June 18 – Ferdinand
III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1769) ·
June 21 – Étienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773) July–December[edit]
·
July 14 – Kamehameha II, King of Hawaii (b. 1797) ·
July 19 – Agustín de Iturbide, Emperor of Mexico (b. 1783) ·
July 20 – Maine de Biran,
French philosopher (b. 1766) ·
July 21 – Buddha Loetla Nabhalai,
King of Siam (b. 1767) ·
August 12 – Charles Nerinckx,
Belgian-born founder of the Sisters of Loretto (b. 1761) ·
September 16 – King Louis XVIII of
France (b. 1755) ·
October 30 – Charles Maturin, Irish writer (b. 1773) ·
December 5 – Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy, French confidant of Benjamin Franklin (b. 1744) References[edit] 1.
^ Paul E. Hoffman, Florida's Frontiers (Indiana
University Press, 2002) p298 2.
^ Edward John Trelawny, Records of Shelley, Byron
and the Author (Penguin, 2013) 3.
^ Sketch of the Life and Military Services of Gen. La
Fayette, During the American Revolution, p17 4.
^ Lincoln C. Yamashita, Warriors: Pu` Ali Koa (Trafford
Publishing, 2011) p46 5.
^ Evan Lampe, Work, Class, and Power in the
Borderlands of the Early American Pacific: The Labors of Empire (Lexington
Books, 2013) p97 6.
^ John Milton Niles, View of South-America and
Mexico, by a citizen of the United States (H. Huntington, 1825)
pp805-206 7.
^ Will Fowler, Santa Anna of Mexico (University
of Nebraska Press, 2009) p133 |
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