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1834 (MDCCCXXXIV) was a common year starting
on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and
a common
year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1834th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini(AD) designations, the 834th
year of the 2nd millennium,
the 34th year of the 19th century,
and the 5th year of the 1830s decade. As of
the start of 1834, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Contents ·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
Zollverein and German
Unification The Buxton Memorial
Fountain in London, celebrating the emancipation of slaves. January–March[edit] ·
January 1 – Zollverein (Germany): Customs charges are abolished at
borders within its member states. ·
January 3 – The government of Mexico
imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City. ·
February 13 – Robert Owen organizes the Grand
National Consolidated Trades Union in the United Kingdom.[1] ·
March 6 – York, Upper Canada,
is incorporated as Toronto. ·
March 11 – The United States Survey of
the Coast is transferred to the Department of the
Navy. ·
March 14 – John Herschel discovers the open
cluster of stars now known as NGC 3603, observing from the Cape of Good Hope.[2] ·
March 28 – Andrew Jackson is censured by the United States
Congress (expunged in 1837). April–June[edit] ·
April 10 – The LaLaurie mansion in New
Orleans burns, and Madame Marie Delphine
LaLaurie flees to France. ·
April 14 – The Whig Party is
officially named, by United States
Senator Henry Clay. ·
May 19 – The Syrian
Peasant Revolt (1834–35) erupts in Egyptian-ruled Ottoman Syria, encompassing peasant
uprisings in Palestine
and Transjordan, Galilee and
Hauran and the Syrian coast;
the rebellions are suppressed with harsh military response leading to
thousands of deaths and mostly subdued by August, though Syrian coast
uprising lasts by early 1835. ·
June 7 – Greek independence:
General Theodoros
Kolokotronis is sentenced to death for treason, for resisting the rule of Otto of Greece (he is released the
following year). ·
June 10 – British philosopher Thomas Carlyle moves to Cheyne Row (Carlyle's House) in London. ·
June 21 – American inventor and
businessman Cyrus McCormick is
granted a patent, for his mechanical reaper. July–September[edit] ·
July 7 – 10 – Anti-abolitionist
riots break out in New York City. ·
July 15 – The Spanish Inquisition,
which began in the 15th century, is suppressed by royal decree. ·
July 16 – William
Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne succeeds Earl Grey as Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom. ·
July 24 – The Liberal Wars end in Portugal. ·
July 29 – The Office of Indian
Affairs is organized in the United States. ·
August 1 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire, by the Slavery
Abolition Act 1833. ·
August 11–12 – Ursuline Convent
riots: A convent of Ursuline nuns is burned near Boston. ·
August 12 – In the Empire of Brazil, the Additional Act provides
for establishment of the Provincial Legislative Assembly, extinction of the
State Council, replacement of the Regency Trina, and introduction of a direct
and secret ballot. ·
August 14 – The Poor Law
Amendment Act in the United Kingdom states that no
able-bodied British man can receive assistance, unless he enters a workhouse (a kind of poorhouse). ·
August 15 – The South Australia
Act allows for the creation of a colony there. ·
September – The Economist newspaper is first
published in London. ·
September 13 – The Gleaner newspaper
is first published in Jamaica. October–December[edit] ·
October 16 – The Palace of
Westminster is destroyed by fire. ·
November 14 – William
Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne becomes the last Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom to be dismissed by the British
monarch. King
William IV temporarily appoints Arthur
Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, to form a caretaker government.[3][4] ·
December 3 – The Zollverein institutes the first
regular census in Germany.
The population is 23,478,120. ·
December 10 – Sir Robert Peel succeeds Lord
Melbourne, as Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom. ·
December 11 – The Sixth Xhosa War is characterized by
severe clashes between white settlers and Bantu peoples in Cape Colony; Dutch-speaking settlers
colonize the area north of Orange River. Date unknown[edit] ·
A pro-republic uprising fails in Piedmont; one of the activists is Giuseppe Garibaldi. ·
The British East India Company monopoly
on China trade ends. It appoints a Tea Committee to assess the potential
of Assam tea. ·
Athens becomes Greece's capital city. ·
The Medical School of Louisiana
(later Tulane University)
is founded in New Orleans. ·
Charles Babbage begins the conceptual
design of the Analytical Engine,
a mechanical forerunner of the modern computer. It will not be built in his
lifetime.[5][6] ·
Thomas
Davenport, inventor of the first American DC electrical motor, installs his motor
in a small model car, creating one of the first electric cars. ·
The Wilmington
and Raleigh Railroad is chartered in Wilmington,
North Carolina.[7] ·
The Romanian language is banned in
schools and government facilities, in Bessarabia.[8] Births[edit] January–June[edit] ·
January 7 – Johann Philipp Reis,
German physicist, inventor (d. 1874) ·
January 15 – Samuel Arza
Davenport, American politician (d. 1911) ·
January 17 – August Weismann, German evolutionary
biologist (d. 1914) ·
January 20 – Piet Joubert, Boer politician, military
commander (d. 1900) ·
January 25 – Alina Frasa, Finnish ballerina (d. 1899) ·
February 6 – Edwin Klebs, German-Swiss pathologist who
discovered Diphtheria (d. 1913) ·
February 8 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (d. 1907) ·
February 9 – Felix Dahn, German author (d. 1912) ·
February 16 – Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist, philosopher
(d. 1919) ·
February 19 – Charles Davis Lucas,
British Victoria Cross recipient
(d. 1914) ·
February 27 – Charles C.
Carpenter, American admiral (d. 1899) ·
March 5 – Félix de Blochausen,
6th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1915) ·
March 16 – James Hector, Scottish geologist (d. 1907)
·
March 17 – Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer, inventor
(d. 1900) ·
March 20 – Charles W. Eliot, American President of
Harvard University (d. 1926) ·
March 23 – Julius Reubke, German composer (d. 1858) ·
March 24 ·
John Wesley Powell,
American explorer (d. 1902) ·
William Morris, English poet, artist
(d. 1896) ·
April 1 – Big Jim Fisk, American entrepreneur
(d. 1872) ·
April 26 – Artemus Ward,
American humorist (d. 1867) ·
May 20 – Albert Niemann,
German chemist (d. 1861) ·
May 23 – Carl Heinrich Bloch,
Danish sculptor (d. 1890) ·
June 19 – Charles Spurgeon, English Baptist preacher
(d. 1892) July–December[edit] ·
July 2 – Hendrick
Peter Godfried Quack, Dutch economist, historian (d. 1917) ·
July 10 – James McNeill
Whistler, American painter, etcher (d. 1903) ·
July 12 – Elisabeth Howen, Estonian reform educator
(d. 1923) ·
July 19 – Edgar Degas, French painter (d. 1917) ·
July 2 – Frédéric
Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor (d. 1904) ·
August 4 – John Venn, British mathematician (d. 1923) ·
August 22 – Samuel Pierpont
Langley, American astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics pioneer
(d. 1906) ·
August 31 – Amilcare Ponchielli,
Italian composer (d. 1886) ·
September 9 – Joseph Henry
Shorthouse, English novelist (d. 1903) ·
September 17 – Robert Simpson
(merchant), Scottish-Canadian businessman (d. 1897) ·
September 30 – Louis P. Mouillard,
French artist, aviation pioneer (d. 1897) ·
October 6 – Walter Kittredge, American composer
(d. 1905) ·
November 8 – Johann Karl
Friedrich Zöllner, German astrophysicist (d. 1882) ·
November 19 – Georg Hermann
Quincke, German physicist (d. 1924) ·
November 21 – Hetty Green, American businesswoman
(d. 1916) ·
December 16 – Léon Walras, French economist (d. 1910) ·
December 24 – Augustus
George Vernon Harcourt, English chemist (d. 1919) Date unknown[edit] ·
Giorgio
Costantino Schinas, Maltese architect and civil engineer (d. 1894) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit] ·
January 12 – William
Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759) ·
January 17 – Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (b. 1762) ·
February 2 – Lorenzo Dow, American minister (b. 1777) ·
February 4 – Amélie-Julie
Candeille, French composer, librettist, writer, singer, actress,
comedian, and instrumentalist (b. 1767) ·
February 12 – Friedrich
Schleiermacher, German theologian (b. 1768) ·
February 18 – William
Wirt, 9th United States
Attorney General (b. 1772) ·
February 23 – Karl Ludwig von
Knebel, German poet (b. 1744) ·
March 2 – José Cecilio del
Valle, first President of Central America (b. 1780) ·
March 30 – Rudolph Ackermann,
Anglo-German entrepreneur (b. 1764) ·
April 5 – Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin
Keats, Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1757) ·
April 10 – John
'Merino' MacArthur, Australian farmer (b. 1767) ·
April 11 – John 'Mad Jack'
Fuller, English philanthropist, patron of the arts and sciences
(b. 1757) ·
April 29 – Grigore IV Ghica, prince of Wallachia
(b. 1755) ·
May 20 – Gilbert
du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French nobleman, soldier
(b. 1757) July–December[edit] ·
July 12 – David Douglas,
Scottish botanist (b. 1799) ·
July 14 – Edmond-Charles Genêt,
French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution (b. 1763) ·
July 19 – Károly Hadaly, Hungarian mathematician
(b. 1743) ·
July 25 – Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, English writer (b. 1772) ·
August 1 – Robert
Morrison, British Protestant missionary to China (b. 1782) ·
August 7 – Joseph Marie
Jacquard, French inventor (b. 1752) ·
August 17 – Husein
Gradaščević, Bosnian rebel leader (b. 1802) ·
September 2 – Thomas Telford, Scottish engineer (b. 1757) ·
September 5 – Thomas Lee,
English architect (b. 1794) ·
September 9 – James Weddell, Antarctic explorer (b. 1787) ·
September 15 – William H. Crawford,
American politician, judge (b. 1772) ·
September 16 – William Blackwood,
Scottish writer (b. 1776) ·
September 24 – Emperor Pedro I of Brazil (b. 1798) ·
October 8 – François-Adrien
Boieldieu, French composer (b. 1775) ·
October 11 – William
Napier, 9th Lord Napier, British Navy officer, politician and
diplomat (b. 1786) ·
October 23 – Fath Ali Shah Qajar,
King of Iran (b. 1772) ·
November 2 – Maria Teresa
Poniatowska, Polish aristocrat (b. 1760) ·
November 27 – Rosalie de Constant,
Swiss naturalist (b. 1758) ·
December 23 – Thomas Malthus, English economist, political
philosopher (b. 1766) ·
December 27 – Charles Lamb, English essayist (b. 1775) ·
December 31 – João Batista Gonçalves
Campos, intellectual leader of the Cabanagem social revolt, in the
vice-Kingdom of Grão-Pará,
Brazil (b. 1782) References[edit] 1. ^ G. D. H. Cole, Attempts at
General Union (Taylor & Francis, 2010) p122 2. ^ Sher, D. (1965).
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Duke of Wellington, 1769-1852: A Bibliography (Greenwood Publishing,
1990) p129 4. ^ Rory Muir, Wellington:
Waterloo and the Fortunes of Peace 1814-1852 (Yale University Press,
2013) pp439-440 5. ^ Hyman, Anthony
(1982). Charles Babbage: pioneer of the computer. Oxford University
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model)". Science Museum,
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Carolina Business History. 2006. Retrieved 2011-12-02. 8. ^ Stoica, Vasile (1919). The
Roumanian Question: The Roumanians and their Lands. Pittsburgh
Printing Company. p. 31. ·
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