Year '1834' ('
MDCCCXXXIV') was a
common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Gregorian Calendar (or a
common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower
Julian calendar).
Events of 1834
January - March
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January 1 - Abolition of
customs charges at borders within
Germany.
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January 3 - The government of
Mexico imprisons
Stephen F. Austin in
Mexico City.
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March 6 -
York,
Upper Canada is incorporated as
Toronto.
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March 27 -
Andrew Jackson is censured by the Congress of the United States
April - June
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June 7 -
Greek independence
general Theodoros Kolokotronis is sentenced to death for
treason for resisting the rule of
Otto of Greece (he is released next year).
July - September
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July 16 -
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne succeeds
Earl Grey as
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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July 24 - End of the
Liberal Wars in
Portugal.
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August 1 -
Slavery abolished in the
British Empire (see
Slavery Abolition Act).
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August 11/12 -
Ursuline Convent Riots: a convent of Ursuline nuns is burned near
Boston, MA.
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August 14 -
Richard Henry Dana sets sail from Boston on the ''Pilgrim''.
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August 15 -
South Australia Act allows for the creation of a colony there.
October - December
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October 16 -
Palace of Westminster destroyed by fire
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December 10 -
Sir Robert Peel succeeds
Lord Melbourne as
Prime Minister of the
UK
Undated
★ Failed pro-
republic uprising in
Piedmont – one of the activists is
Giuseppe Garibaldi.
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Spanish Inquisition, which began in the
13th century, was suppressed.
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British East India Company monopoly on
China trade ended.
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Sixth Xhosa War; severe clashes between white settlers and
Bantu peoples in
Cape Colony.
Dutch speaking settlers colonize area north of
Orange River.
Births
January - June
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January 7 -
Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (d.
1874)
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January 13 -
John Mason Cook, after whom
JMC Air is named (d. ?)
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February 8 -
Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (d.
1907)
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February 9 -
Felix Dahn, German author (d.
1912)
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February 16 -
Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist and philosopher (d.
1919)
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February 19 -
Charles Davis Lucas,
Victoria Cross recipient (d.
1914)
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March 16 -
James Hector, Scottish geologist (d.
1907)
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March 17 -
Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and inventor (d.
1900)
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March 20 -
Charles W. Eliot, American President of Harvard University (d.
1926)
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March 23 -
Julius Reubke, German composer (d.
1858).
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March 24 -
William Morris, English poet and artist (d.
1896)
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March 24 -
John Wesley Powell, American explorer (d.
1902)
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April 1 -
Big Jim Fisk, American entrepreneur (d.
1872)
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April 2 -
Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (d.
1904)
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May 23 -
Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish sculptor (d.
1890)
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June 19 -
Charles Spurgeon, English Baptist preacher (d.
1892)
July - December
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July 10 -
James McNeill Whistler, American painter and etcher (d.
1903)
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July 19 -
Edgar Degas, French painter (d.
1917)
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August 4 -
John Venn, British mathematician (d.
1923)
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August 22 -
Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics pioneer (d.
1906)
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August 31 -
Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (d.
1886)
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September 9 -
Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (d.
1903)
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November 19 -
Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (d.
1924)
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October 8 -
Walter Kittredge, American composer (d.
1905)
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December 16 -
Léon Walras, French economist (d.
1910)
: ''See also .''
Deaths
January - June
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January 12 -
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1759)
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January 17 -
Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (b.
1762)
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February 2 -
Lorenzo Dow, American minister (b.
1777)
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February 12 -
Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologian (b.
1768)
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March 2 -
José Cecilo del Valle, first President of Central America (b.
1780)
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April 5 - Vice-Admiral Sir
Richard Goodwin Keats Governor of Newfoundland (b.
1757)
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April 10 -
John 'Merino' MacArthur, Australian farmer (b.
1767)
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April 11 -
John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, English philanthropist and patron of the arts and sciences (b.
1757)
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May 20 -
Marquis de la Fayette, French nobleman and soldier (b.
1757)
July - December
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July 12 -
David Douglas, Scottish botanist (b.
1799)
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July 14 -
Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution (b.
1763)
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July 19 -
Károly Hadaly, Hungarian mathematician (b.
1743)
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July 25 -
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English writer (b.
1772)
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August 1 -
Robert Morrison, Scottish Protestant missionary to China (b.
1782)
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August 7 -
Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor (b.
1752)
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August 17 -
Husein GradaÅ¡Äević, Bosnian rebel leader (b.
1802)
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September 2 -
Thomas Telford, Scottish engineer (b. 1757)
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September 9 -
James Weddell, Antarctic explorer (b.
1787)
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September 16 -
William Blackwood, English writer (b.
1776)
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September 24 -
Pedro I of Brazil (b.
1798)
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October 8 -
François-Adrien Boïeldieu, French composer (b.
1775)
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October 11 -
William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier, British Navy officer, politician and diplomat (b.
1786)
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December 23 -
Thomas Malthus, English economist and political philosopher (b.
1766)
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December 27 -
Charles Lamb, English essayist (b.
1775)
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December 31 -
João Batista Gonçalves Campos, Intelectual leader of the
Cabanagem revolutionary event, in the vice-Kingdom of Grao Para (b.
1782)
: ''See also .''
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