1834

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).

Contents

Events of 1834

January - March

April - June

July - September

October - December

Undated

Births

January - June

July - December

Deaths

January - June

July - December

Events of 1834

January - March

★ January 1 - Abolition of customs charges at borders within Germany.

★ January 3 - The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City.

★ March 6 - York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.

★ March 27 - Andrew Jackson is censured by the Congress of the United States

April - June

★ 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

★ July 16 - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne succeeds Earl Grey as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

★ July 24 - End of the Liberal Wars in Portugal.

★ August 1 - Slavery abolished in the British Empire (see Slavery Abolition Act).

★ August 11/12 - Ursuline Convent Riots: a convent of Ursuline nuns is burned near Boston, MA.

★ August 14 - Richard Henry Dana sets sail from Boston on the ''Pilgrim''.

★ August 15 - South Australia Act allows for the creation of a colony there.

October - December

★ October 16 - Palace of Westminster destroyed by fire

★ 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.

★ Spanish Inquisition, which began in the 13th century, was suppressed.

★ British East India Company monopoly on China trade ended.

★ 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

★ January 7 - Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (d. 1874)

★ January 13 - John Mason Cook, after whom JMC Air is named (d. ?)

★ February 8 - Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (d. 1907)

★ February 9 - Felix Dahn, German author (d. 1912)

★ February 16 - Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist and philosopher (d. 1919)

★ February 19 - Charles Davis Lucas, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1914)

★ March 16 - James Hector, Scottish geologist (d. 1907)

★ March 17 - Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and 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 - William Morris, English poet and artist (d. 1896)

★ March 24 - John Wesley Powell, American explorer (d. 1902)

★ April 1 - Big Jim Fisk, American entrepreneur (d. 1872)

★ April 2 - Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (d. 1904)

★ May 23 - Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish sculptor (d. 1890)

★ June 19 - Charles Spurgeon, English Baptist preacher (d. 1892)

July - December

★ July 10 - James McNeill Whistler, American painter and etcher (d. 1903)

★ July 19 - Edgar Degas, French painter (d. 1917)

★ 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)

★ November 19 - Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (d. 1924)

★ October 8 - Walter Kittredge, American composer (d. 1905)

★ December 16 - Léon Walras, French economist (d. 1910)
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Deaths

January - June

★ January 12 - William Wyndham 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 12 - Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologian (b. 1768)

★ March 2 - José Cecilo del Valle, first President of Central America (b. 1780)

★ 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 and patron of the arts and sciences (b. 1757)

★ May 20 - Marquis de la Fayette, French nobleman and soldier (b. 1757)

July - December

★ 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, Scottish 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 9 - James Weddell, Antarctic explorer (b. 1787)

★ September 16 - William Blackwood, English writer (b. 1776)

★ September 24 - Pedro I of Brazil (b. 1798)

★ October 8 - François-Adrien Boïeldieu, French composer (b. 1775)

★ October 11 - William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier, British Navy officer, politician and diplomat (b. 1786)

★ December 23 - Thomas Malthus, English economist and political philosopher (b. 1766)

★ December 27 - Charles Lamb, English essayist (b. 1775)

★ December 31 - João Batista Gonçalves Campos, Intelectual leader of the Cabanagem revolutionary event, in the vice-Kingdom of Grao Para (b. 1782)
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