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1834
.
January 1
:
Zollverein
and German Unification
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.
Calendar year
Events
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The
Buxton Memorial Fountain
in London, celebrating the emancipation of slaves.
January?March
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April?June
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- 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
.
- April 22
?
Spain
,
France
,
Portugal
and the
United Kingdom
sign the
Quadruple Alliance
.
- May 9
? The founder of the
Second Saudi State
, Imam Turki bin Abdullah Al Saud, is assassinated after the Friday prayers by Ibrahim Hamza, following the orders of his cousin Mishari.
- 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 the Syrian coast uprising lasts until 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 21
? American inventor and businessman
Cyrus McCormick
is granted a patent for his mechanical reaper.
July?September
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- July 7
?
10
?
Anti-abolitionist riots
break out in
New York City
.
- July 8
? Imam Faisal bin Turki enters
Riyadh
and upon entering his father's palace, assassinates his father's murderer, Ibrahim Hamza, and his master; Mishari, and becomes the ruler and founder of the Second Saudi State.
- 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
- 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 11
? The emigrant ship
Sybelle
out of
Cromarty
(Scotland) is wrecked off
St. Paul Island (Nova Scotia)
with the loss of all 316 passengers and all but six of her crew.
[5]
- September 13
?
The Gleaner
newspaper is first published in
Jamaica
.
- September 18
?
Athens
becomes Greece's capital city.
October?December
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Date unknown
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Births
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January?June
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]
Heinrich von Treitschke
Gottlieb Daimler
.
- 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
?
Felix de Blochausen
, 6th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d.
1915
)
- March 16
?
Sir James Hector
, Scottish geologist (d.
1907
)
[12]
- 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
- April 2
?
Pa?kal Buconji?
, Herzegovinian Catholic bishop (d.
1910
)
- 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
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]
James McNeill Whistler
Edgar Degas
Aleksis Kivi
- July 2
?
Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack
, Dutch economist, historian (d.
1917
)
- July 4
?
Christopher Dresser
, British designer influential in the Anglo-Japanese style (d.
1904
)
[13]
- July 10
?
James McNeill Whistler
, American painter, etcher (d.
1903
)
- July 19
?
Edgar Degas
, French painter (d.
1917
)
- July 2
?
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
, French sculptor (d.
1904
)
- July 27
?
Miguel Grau Seminario
, Peruvian admiral (d.
1879
)
- 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
)
- Heinrich von Treitschke
(15 September 1834 ? 28 April 1896) German historian, political writer, and National Liberal member of the Reichstag during the time of the German Empire.
- September 17
?
Robert Simpson
, Scottish-Canadian businessman (d.
1897
)
- September 28
?
William Montrose Graham Jr.
, American general (d.
1916
)
- September 30
?
Louis P. Mouillard
, French artist, aviation pioneer (d.
1897
)
- October 6
?
Walter Kittredge
, American composer (d.
1905
)
- October 10
?
Aleksis Kivi
, Finnish national author (d.
1872
)
[14]
- November 8
?
Johann Karl Friedrich Zollner
, German astrophysicist (d.
1882
)
- November 13
?
Ignacio Manuel Altamirano
, Mexican writer (d.
1893
)
- November 19
?
Georg Hermann Quincke
, German physicist (d.
1924
)
- November 21
?
Hetty Green
, American businesswoman (d.
1916
)
- November 28
?
Sophronia Farrington Naylor Grubb
, American activist (d.
1902
)
- December 16
?
Leon Walras
, French economist (d.
1910
)
- December 24
?
Augustus George Vernon Harcourt
, English chemist (d.
1919
)
Deaths
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January?June
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Friedrich Schleiermacher
Gilbert du Motier
- January 6
?
Richard Martin
, Irish founder of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (b.
1754
)
- 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
?
Amelie-Julie Candeille
, French composer, librettist, writer, singer, actress, comedian, and instrumentalist (b.
1767
)
- February 12
?
Friedrich Schleiermacher
, German theologian and philosopher (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
?
Jose 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 9
?
Turki bin Abdullah bin Muhammad
, founder of the First Saudi State
- May 20
?
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
, French nobleman, soldier (b.
1757
)
- May 31
?
Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman bin Ahmed Al Khalifa
, Deputy Ruler of Bahrain (b.
c.
1783
)
July?December
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Jonathan Jennings
Pedro I of Brazil
- July 12
?
David Douglas
, Scottish botanist (b.
1799
)
- July 14
?
Edmond-Charles Genet
, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution (b.
1763
)
- July 19
?
Karoly Hadaly
, Hungarian mathematician (b.
1743
)
- July 25
?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
, English writer (b.
1772
)
- July 26
?
Jonathan Jennings
, American politician and the first
governor of Indiana
(b.
1784
)
- August 1
?
Robert Morrison
, British Protestant missionary to China (b.
1782
)
- August 7
?
Joseph Marie Jacquard
, French inventor (b.
1752
)
- August 17
?
Husein Grada??evi?
, 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 5
?
Maria Josefa Pimentel, Duchess of Osuna
(b.
1752
)
- October 8
?
Francois-Adrien Boieldieu
, French composer (b.
1775
)
- October 11
?
William Napier, 9th Lord Napier
, British Navy officer, politician and diplomat (b.
1786
)
- October 21
?
Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby
(b.
1752
)
- October 23
?
Fath Ali Shah Qajar
, King of Iran (b.
1772
)
- October 31
?
Eleuthere Irenee du Pont
, French-American chemical manufacturer (b.
1771
)
- 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
? Joao Batista Goncalves Campos, intellectual leader of the
Cabanagem
revolt (b.
1782
)
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2021
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.
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: 76.
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- ^
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The Duke of Wellington, 1769-1852: A Bibliography
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- ^
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