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January 19: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1829 (MDCCCXXIX) was
a common year starting
on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and
a common
year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1829th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
829th year of the 2nd millennium,
the 29th year of the 19th century,
and the 10th and last year of the 1820s decade. As of the start of 1829,
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 19 – August
Klingemann's adaptation of Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres in Braunschweig.[1] ·
February 27 – Battle of Tarqui: Troops of Gran Colombia and Peru battle
to a draw. ·
March 4 – Andrew Jackson is sworn
in, as the seventh President of the United States. ·
March 11 – German composer Felix Mendelssohn conducts
the first performance of Johann Sebastian
Bach's St Matthew Passion since
the latter's death in 1750, in Berlin; the
success of this performance sparks a revival of interest in Bach. ·
March 22 – Greece receives autonomy
from the Ottoman Empire in
the London Protocol,
signed by Russia, France
and Britain, effectively ending the Greek War of
Independence. Greece continues to seek full independence through
diplomatic negotiations with the three Great Powers. ·
March 31 – Pope Pius VIII succeeds Pope Leo XII, as the 253rd pope. April–June[edit] ·
April–September– Felix Mendelssohn pays
his first visit to Britain. This includes the first London performance of
his concert overture to A
Midsummer Night's Dream, and his trip to Fingal's Cave.[2] ·
April 1 – Vicente Guerrero becomes president
of Mexico. ·
April 4 – The Mexican city of Cuautla, Morelos is founded. ·
April 13 – The Catholic
Relief Act is passed by the Parliament
of the United Kingdom, granting a substantial measure of Catholic
emancipation in Britain and Ireland.[3] ·
May 6 – The patent for an instrument
called the accordion is
applied for by Cyrill Demian (officially approved
on May 23). ·
May 15 – Joseph Smith claims to have
received the Aaronic Priesthood from John the Baptist. ·
June 1 – The
Philadelphia Inquirer is founded, as The
Pennsylvania Inquirer. ·
June 3 – The Swan River Colony (later
to become the cities of Perth and Fremantle) is founded in Western Australia.
This secures the western third of the Australian landmass
for the British. ·
June 5 – Slave trade: HMS Pickle captures the
armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba. ·
June 10 – The Oxford
University Boat Club wins the first inter-university Boat Race,[3] rowed at Henley-on-Thames.[4] ·
June 19 – Robert Peel establishes the Metropolitan
Police Service in London, the first modern police force. The
first officers, known by the nickname "bobbies", go on patrol
on September 29.[3] July–September[edit] ·
July 2 – Russo-Turkish
War (1828–29): Russian Field-Marshal Hans Karl von
Diebitsch launches the Trans-Balkan Offensive, which brings
the Russian army within 68 kilometres (42 mi) of Istanbul. ·
July 4 – George Shillibeer begins
operating the first bus service in London.[5] ·
July 23 – In the United States, William Burt obtains
the first patent for a form of typewriter, the typographer. ·
August 8 – France:
The Prince de Polignac succeeds
the Vicomte
de Martignac, as Prime Minister
of France. ·
August 10 – Finsteraarhorn, the highest summit of
the Bernese Alps, is
first ascended. ·
August 12 – Mrs. Helen Dance, wife of
the captain of the ship Sulphur, cuts down a tree to mark the
founding day of the town of Perth, Western Australia. ·
August 14 – King's College
London is founded by Royal Charter, under the patronage of King
George IV and the Prime Minister, The
Duke of Wellington. ·
September 14 – The Ottoman Empire signs
the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War. ·
September 16 – Russo-Turkish
War (1828–29): The Treaty of
Adrianople gains for Russia some territory at the mouth of
the Danube, and along the eastern coast of
the Black Sea. ·
September 25 – Failed assassination
attempt on Simon Bolívar ·
September 28 – African-American
abolitionist David Walker publishes
his Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, in Boston,
Massachusetts. October–December[edit] ·
October 1 – South African
College is inaugurated in Cape Town. ·
October 8 – Rail transport: Stephenson's Rocket wins
the Rainhill Trials. ·
October 16 – The first modern hotel in
the US opens, named the "Tremont Hotel". ·
November 5 – Technical
University of Denmark (DTU) opens. ·
November 30 – The original Welland Canal opens for a trial run,
with a ceremony at Port Dalhousie, Canada. ·
December 4 – India: In the face of fierce opposition,
British Lord William
Bentinck carries a regulation, declaring that all who
abet suttee in India are guilty of culpable homicide. Date unknown[edit] ·
The Chalmers
University of Technology is founded in Gothenburg, Sweden. ·
The
last of the Bounty mutineers
dies at Pitcairn Island. Births[edit] January–June[edit]
King Oscar II of Sweden ·
January 1 – Tommaso Salvini, Italian actor (d. 1915) ·
January 3 – Konrad Duden, German philologist (d. 1911) ·
January 10 – Epameinondas
Deligeorgis, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1879) ·
January 17 – Catherine Booth, English Mother of The Salvation Army (d. 1890) ·
January 21 – King Oscar II of Sweden and
Norway (d. 1907) ·
January 27 – Isaac Roberts, Welsh astronomer (d. 1904) ·
Alfred Brehm, German zoologist (d. 1884) ·
William
Stanley, British inventor, engineer (d. 1909) ·
February 22 – Princess Sumiko, Japanese princess (d. 1881) ·
February 26 – Levi Strauss, American clothing designer
(d. 1902) ·
March 2 – Carl Schurz, German revolutionary, American
statesman (d. 1906) ·
March 19 – Carl Frederik
Tietgen, Danish financier, industrialist (d. 1901) ·
April 10 – William Booth, British founder of The Salvation Army (d. 1912) ·
May 5 – Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player
(d. 1862) ·
May 8 – Louis Moreau
Gottschalk, American composer, pianist (d. 1869) ·
June 5 – George
Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen, Scottish-Canadian businessman,
philanthropist (d. 1921) ·
June 6 – Allan Octavian Hume,
British civil servant (d. 1912) ·
June 8 – John Everett Millais,
British Pre-Raphaelite painter (d. 1896) ·
June 14 – Bernard Petitjean,
French Catholic missionary to Japan (d. 1884) ·
June 16 – Geronimo, indigenous American (Apache) leader
(d. 1909) July–December[edit]
·
July 9 – Robert Franklin
Armfield, U.S. Representative from North Carolina (d. 1898) ·
July 14 – Edward White
Benson, Archbishop of
Canterbury (d. 1896) ·
July 26 – Auguste Beernaert,
Belgian statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1912) ·
August 24 – Emanuella Carlbeck,
Swedish social reformer (d. 1901) ·
September 3 – Adolf Eugen Fick, German-born physician,
physiologist (d. 1901) ·
September 7 – August Kekulé, German chemist (d. 1896) ·
September 12 – Anselm Feuerbach, German painter (d. 1880) ·
October 3 – Sigismund von
Schlichting, Prussian general (d. 1909) ·
October 5 – Chester A. Arthur,
21st President
of the United States (d. 1886) ·
October 15 – Asaph Hall, American astronomer (d. 1907) ·
November 9 – Peter Lumsden, British general in the Indian
army (d. 1918) ·
November 28 – Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist, composer
(d. 1894) ·
unknown
date – Anna Haslam, Irish women's rights activist,
suffragist (d. 1922) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit] ·
January 6 – Amalia Holst, German writer, intellectual,
and feminist (b. 1758) ·
January 12 – Karl
Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, German poet, philosopher and
philologist (b. 1772) ·
Paul
François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (b. 1755) ·
István Pauli (Pável) Hungarian Slovene priest,
writer (b. 1760) ·
February 10 – Pope Leo XII (b. 1760) ·
February 11 – Alexander Griboyedov,
Russian playwright, diplomat (b. 1795) ·
February 21 – Kittur Chennamma, Indian queen regnant
(b. 1778) ·
April 6 – Niels Henrik Abel,
Norwegian mathematician (b. 1802) ·
April 18 – Veronika Gut, Swiss rebel heroine (b. 1757) ·
May 10 – Thomas Young,
English physician, linguist (b. 1773) ·
May 17 – John Jay, first Chief
Justice of the United States (b. 1745) ·
May 21 – Peter I,
Grand Duke of Oldenburg (b. 1755)
·
May 29 – Humphry Davy, British chemist (b. 1778) ·
May 30 – Louis Aloysius, Prince of
Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein (b. 1765) ·
June 6 – Shanawdithit, last known pure-blooded member
of the Beothuk people (b. c. 1801) ·
June 15 – Therese Huber, German writer and scholar
(b. 1764) ·
June 27 – James Smithson, British mineralogist,
chemist, whose fortune eventually went to the United States of America, and
was used to initially fund the Smithsonian
Institution (b. 1764) July–December[edit]
·
July 23 – Wojciech
Bogusławski, actor and director, Father of Polish
Theatre (b. 1757) ·
October 10 – Maria Elizabetha
Jacson, British botanist (b. 1755) ·
November 14 – Louis Nicolas
Vauquelin, French chemist, discoverer of beryllium and chromium (b. 1763) ·
November 26 – Bushrod Washington,
American Supreme Court justice (b. 1762) ·
December 12 – John Lansing, Jr.,
American statesman (disappeared) (b. 1754) ·
December 28 – Jean-Baptiste
Lamarck, French scientist (b. 1744) ·
December 29 – Princess
Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg (b. 1797)
(scarlet fever) ·
undated - Huang Lü, Chinese scientist References[edit] 1.
^ Richard Acland Armstrong
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^ Grove, George (1
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^ Jump up to:a b c Penguin
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^ "Foundations of The Boat Race". The
Xchanging Boat Race. Theboatrace.org. Retrieved 2012-03-29. 5.
^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1820-1840".
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