:''For the game, see: ''
1824 (board game).
Year '1824' ('
MDCCCXXIV') was a
leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Gregorian Calendar (or a
leap year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower
Julian calendar).
Events of 1824
January - March
★
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 -
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).
★
February 10 -
Simón Bolívar proclaimed
dictator of
Peru.
★
February 21 -
Chumash Uprising against the Spanish begins, at
Mission Santa Inés in modern-day
Solvang, California
★
March 11 - The
United States War Department creates the
Bureau of Indian Affairs and
Ely S. Parker of the
Seneca tribe becomes its first director.
★
March 17 - Signing of the
Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824.
April - June
★
May 7 - One of
Beethoven's greatest masterpieces,
Symphony No. 9, premieres in
Vienna.
July - September
★
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
Louis XVIII as King of
France.
October - December
★
October 10 -
Edinburgh Town Council makes a decision to found the
Edinburgh Municipal Fire Brigade, the first
fire brigade in Britain.
★
November 5 - first
technological university in the English-speaking world founded:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
★
November 7 - Worst flood in
Saint Petersburg: water rose 421 cm above normal and 200 lost their lives.
★
November 15-
16 - A huge fire breaks out on
Old Assembly Close in
Edinburgh. It destroys two tenements and
Tron Kirk church. 11 residents and 2 firemen die, 400 people are left homeless.
★
November 30 - the first sod is turned at Allenburgh Ontario, for the first of four
Welland Canals ( The canal would open for a trial run exactly 5 years later, to the day )
★
December 9 - At the
Battle of Ayacucho, Peruvian forces defeat Spanish.
★
December 24 - The
Chi Phi (ΧΦ) Fraternity was founded at Princeton University.
Undated
★ The British take
Rangoon,
Burma.
★
Frontier treaty between
United States and
Russia is signed.
★ Egyptians capture
Crete.
★ Turks seize island of
Ipsara from Greeks but are defeated at
Mytilene.
★ What is now the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in Britain was founded in earnest.
★
Cimetière du Montparnasse established
★ 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''.
Ongoing events
★
First Burmese War (
1823–
1826)
Births
January - June
★
January 8 -
Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d.
1889)
★
January 15 -
Marie Duplessis, French courtesan
★
January 21 -
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, American Confederate general (d.
1863)
★
February 7 -
William Huggins, British astronomer (d.
1910)
★
February 16 -
Peter Kozler, Slovenian cartographer and geographer (d.
1879)
★
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 25 -
Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (d.
1900)
★
May 6 -
Tokugawa Iesada, Japanese shogun (d.
1858)
★
May 16 -
Levi P. Morton, 22nd
Vice President of the United States (d.
1920)
★
May 23 -
Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general (d.
1881)
★
June 26 -
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist and engineer (d.
1907)
★
June 28 -
Paul Broca, French anthropologist (d.
1880)
★
July 12 -
Eugène Boudin, French painter (d.
1898)
July - December
★
July 27 -
Alexandre Dumas, fils, French writer (d.
1895)
★
September 4 -
Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (d.
1896)
★
October 5 -
Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and historian (d.
1908)
★
October 18 -
Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano, Spanish author (d.
1905)
★
December 10 -
George MacDonald, English writer (d.
1905)
★
December 14 -
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d.
1898)
★ ''date unknown'' -
Gideon T. Stewart, American temperance movement leader (d.
1907)
: ''See also .''
Deaths
January - June
★
January 21 -
Jean Baptiste Drouet, French revolutionary (b.
1765)
★
January 26 -
Théodore Géricault, French painter (b.
1791)
★
February 21 -
Eugène de Beauharnais, son of
Josephine de Beauharnais (b.
1781)
★
April 19 -
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (b.
1788)
★
May 15 -
Johann Philipp Stadion, Count von Warthausen, statesman (b.
1763)
★
May 26 -
Capel Lofft, English writer (b.
1751)
★
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
★
July 20 Maine de Biran, philosopher
★
July 21 -
Buddha Loetla Nabhalai, King of Siam (b.
1767)
★
August 12 -
Charles Nerinckx, founder of the
Sisters of Loretto (b.
1761)
★
September 16 -
Louis XVIII of France (b.
1755)
★
October 30 -
Charles Maturin, Irish writer (b.
1773)
: ''See also .''
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