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1824 (
MDCCCXXIV ) was a
leap year starting on Thursday of the
Gregorian calendar and a
leap year starting on Tuesday of the
Julian calendar , the 1824th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 824th year of the
2nd millennium , the 24th year of the
19th century , and the 5th year of the
1820s decade. As of the start of 1824, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
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 –
First Anglo-Ashanti War :
Battle of Nsamankow – forces of the
Ashanti Empire crush British forces in the
Gold Coast (modern-day
Ghana ), killing the British governor
Sir Charles MacCarthy .
January 24 – The first issue of the radical quarterly founded by
Jeremy Bentham , The
Westminster Review , is published in London.
February 10 –
Simón Bolívar is proclaimed dictator of
Peru .
February 20 —
William Buckland formally announces the name
Megalosaurus , the first scientifically validly named non-avian dinosaur species.
[1]
February 21 – The
Chumash Revolt of 1824 begins against the Spanish presence in California.
March 4 – Founding of the
Royal National Lifeboat Institution in the British Isles.
March 5 – The
First Anglo-Burmese War begins.
March 7 – The
Florida State Capitol moves from
St. Augustine to
Tallahassee .
March 9 –
Netherlands Trading Society (Netherlandsche Handel-Maatschappij ), a predecessor of
ABN AMRO , Dutch firm Financial group, founded.[
citation needed ]
March 11 – The
United States War Department creates the
Bureau of Indian Affairs .
March 17 – The
Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 is signed.
March 19 – American explorer
Benjamin Morrell departs
Antarctica after a voyage later plagued by claims of fraud.
[2]
March 29 – In
Cairo , 4,000 people are killed in a fire, including people killed by the explosion of gunpowder housed at the palace of Egypt's Ottoman Governor
Mehmet Ali .
[3]
April–June
April 19: Death of
Lord Byron
April 7 – The
Mechanics' Institution is established in
Manchester , England at the Bridgewater Arms hotel, as part of a national movement for the education of working men. The institute is the precursor to three Universities in the city: the
University of Manchester ,
UMIST and the
Metropolitan University of Manchester (MMU).
[4]
[5]
[6]
April 9 – The first permanent settlers arrive to construct the new city of
Tallahassee, Florida , selected to be the capital of the
Florida Territory newly acquired from the Kingdom of Spain; the area has been selected because it is roughly equidistant from the territory's main cities,
Pensacola and
St. Augustine .
[7]
April 19 –
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron), the British poet, dies at the age of 36 in the Greek city of
Missolonghi , where he had taken ill while making plans to liberate the Greeks from Ottoman rule, "not in combat, but of a fever caught in the unhealthy conditions at Missolonghi... exacerbated, it is generally agreed, by the over-zealous actions of his doctors, who
bled him excessively."
[8]
May 7 –
Beethoven 's
Symphony No. 9 (the "Choral") premieres at the
Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna. The deaf composer has to be turned around on the stage to witness the enthusiastic audience reaction.
May 24 –
First Anglo-Burmese War : The British take
Rangoon , Burma.
June 16 – The
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is established in Great Britain.
July–September
August 6:
Battle of Junín
July 2 – The
Confederation of the Equator begins in
Pernambuco, Brazil : Wealthy landowners against the government of
Emperor Pedro I initiate a secessionist movement for the independence of Pernambuco.
July 8 – Queen
Kamāmalu of Hawaii dies of
measles , while accompanying her husband during a visit to the United Kingdom.
July 10 –
Visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to the United States :
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette and a beloved hero of the American Revolution, departs from the port of
Le Havre in France on the ship Cadmus for a triumphant return to the United States; he arrives in New York on August 15.
[9]
July 13 – King
Kamehameha II of Hawaii dies of
measles , during a visit to the United Kingdom, before he can meet with King George IV.
[10] Because of the slow communications of the era, news of the King's death does not reach Hawaii until the following March; his funeral will take place on May 11, 1825, and he will be succeeded by his brother
Kamehameha III .
July 19 – Don
Agustín de Iturbide , who had formerly been
President of Mexico and then proclaimed himself Emperor Agustin the First, until being overthrown on March 19, 1823, is executed by a firing squad in the city of
Padilla , five days after returning from exile in England.
[11]
[12]
July 25 – The
Montparnasse Cemetery opens in Paris, France.
August 6 –
Peruvian War of Independence :
Battle of Junín – Pro-independence forces defeat the Spanish in the highlands of the Junín region.
August 7 –
First Anglo-Ashanti War ends when forces of the
Ashanti Empire flee the field.
[13]
August 15 –
Visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to the United States begins at
Staten Island ; he departs on September 7, 1825.
September 13 – With his crew and 29
convicts aboard the
Amity ,
John Oxley arrives at and founds the
Moreton Bay Penal Settlement at what becomes
Redcliffe City, Queensland , in Australia, after leaving
Sydney .
September 16 –
Charles X succeeds his brother
Louis XVIII as King of France.
October–December
December 9:
Battle of Ayacucho
October 4 – The
First Constitution of Mexico is enacted, declaring the country to be a
federal republic .
October 10 – The
Edinburgh Town Council founds the Edinburgh Municipal Fire Brigade, the first
fire brigade in Britain, under the leadership of
James Braidwood .
October 21 –
Joseph Aspdin patents
Portland cement .
November 5 –
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , the first
technological university in the English-speaking world, is founded in
Troy, New York .
November 19 [
O.S. November 7] – In the
worst flood to date in
Saint Petersburg , water rises 421 centimetres (166 in) above normal, and 200 lose their lives.
November 30 – The first sod is turned in
Ontario for the first of four
Welland Canals (the canal opens for a trial run five years later to the day).
December 3 –
1824 United States presidential election : None of the four candidates for U.S. president gain a majority of the electoral votes, so the election is thrown into the
U.S. House of Representatives .
December 9 –
Peruvian War of Independence :
Battle of Ayacucho – Colombian and Peruvian forces led by
Antonio José de Sucre defeat the Spanish.
December 23 – Chief
Pushmataha of the
Choctaw Nation dies in Washington.
December 24 – The first American fraternity,
Chi Phi (ΧΦ), is founded at
Princeton University .
December 28 – The
Bathurst War comes to an end, with the defeat of the
Wiradjuri .
Date unknown
Births
January–June
Bedřich Smetana
Amasa Leland Stanford
Gustav Kirchhoff
Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
January 7 –
Julia Kavanagh , Irish novelist (d. 1877)
January 8 –
Wilkie Collins , British novelist (d. 1889)
January 15 –
Marie Duplessis , French courtesan (d. 1847)
January 21 –
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson , American Confederate general (d. 1863)
January 26 –
Emil Czyrniański , Polish chemist (d. 1888)
February 7 –
Sir William Huggins , British astronomer (d. 1910)
February 8 –
Barnard Elliott Bee, Jr. , American Confederate general (d. 1861)
February 12 –
Dayananda Saraswati , Hindu religious leader, Vedic scholar who founded the reform movement
Arya Samaj (d. 1883)
February 14 –
Winfield Scott Hancock , American Civil War Union general, Democratic presidential candidate (d. 1886)
February 27 –
Prince Kuni Asahiko of Japan (d. 1891)
March 2 –
Bedřich Smetana , Czech composer (d. 1884)
March 9 –
Amasa Leland Stanford , American tycoon, industrialist and politician, 8th
Governor of California (d. 1893)
March 12 –
Gustav Kirchhoff , German physicist (d. 1887)
March 19 –
William Allingham , Irish author (d. 1889)
March 22 –
Charles Pfizer , German-American chemist, co-founder of
Pfizer (d. 1906)
March 25 –
Clinton L. Merriam , American politician (d. 1900)
March 26 –
Julie-Victoire Daubié , French journalist (d. 1874)
March 27 –
Johann Wilhelm Hittorf , German physicist (d. 1914)
April 6 –
George Waterhouse , 7th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1906)
April 7 –
Edward Jones , trespasser who continually broke into to
Buckingham Palace (d. 1895)
April 13 –
William Alexander , Anglican bishop, Primate of All Ireland (d. 1911)
May 3 –
Pio Siotto , Italian artist, cameo engraver (d. ?)
[14]
May 6 –
Tokugawa Iesada , 13th
shōgun of
Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (d. 1858)
May 9 –
Jacob ben Moses Bachrach , noted Polish-born apologist of Rabbinic Judaism (d. 1896)
May 23 –
Ambrose Burnside ,
American Civil War general,
inventor , politician from
Rhode Island (d. 1881)
June 7 –
Bernhard von Gudden , German neuroanatomist, psychiatrist (d. 1886)
June 8 –
Arthur von Mohrenheim , Russian diplomat (d. 1906)
June 20 –
George Edmund Street , British architect (d. 1881)
June 26 –
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin , Irish-born physicist, engineer (d. 1907)
June 27 –
Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney , American writer, reformer, philanthropist (d. 1904)
June 28 –
Paul Broca , French physician, anthropologist (d. 1880)
July–December
Edward Cooper
George MacDonald
July 1 –
Casto Méndez Núñez , Spanish admiral (d. 1869)
July 12 –
Eugène Boudin , French painter (d. 1898)
July 19 –
Horace W. Carpentier , American politician, 1st governor of
Oakland, California (d. 1918)
July 21 –
Stanley Matthews , American politician,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1889)
July 27 –
Alexandre Dumas, fils , French writer (d. 1895)
August 3 –
William Burnham Woods ,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1887)
August 7 –
Gideon T. Stewart , American temperance movement leader (d. 1907)
August 13 –
John J. Robison , American politician in Michigan (d. 1897)
[15]
August 26 –
Marie Simon , German nurse (d. 1877)
[16]
September 4
September 27 –
Benjamin Apthorp Gould , American astronomer (d. 1896)
October 2 –
Henry C. Lord , American railroad executive (d. 1884)
October 5 –
Henry Chadwick , English-born American baseball writer, historian (d. 1908)
October 18 –
Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano , Spanish author (d. 1905)
October 26 –
Edward Cooper , 83rd
Mayor of New York City (d. 1905)
October 27 –
Edward Maitland , British writer (d. 1897)
November 24 –
Frederick Miller , German-born American brewer, businessman (d. 1888)
December 10 –
George MacDonald , Scottish writer (d. 1905)
December 11 –
Jonathan Letterman , American surgeon, "Father of Battlefield Medicine" (d. 1872)
December 14 –
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes , French painter (d. 1898)
December 18 –
Sir John Hall , 12th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1907)
December 27 –
Charlotta Norberg , Swedish ballerina (d. 1892)
Deaths
January–June
Théodore Géricault
January 21 –
Jean-Baptiste Drouet , French revolutionary (b. 1765)
January 26 –
Théodore Géricault , French painter (b. 1791)
January 29 –
Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern , wife of Charles Edward Stuart (b. 1752)
February 9 –
Anne Catherine Emmerich , German Augustinian Canoness, mystic, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist (b. 1774)
February 21 –
Eugène de Beauharnais , son of
Joséphine de Beauharnais (b. 1781)
April 3 –
Sally Seymour , American pastry chef and restaurateur
April 19 –
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron , English poet (b. 1788)
May 15 –
Johann Philipp Stadion, Count von Warthausen , German statesman (b. 1763)
May 26 –
Capel Lofft , English writer (b. 1751)
May 29 –
Jean-Baptiste Willermoz , French Freemason (b. 1730)
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
Louis XVIII of France
July 14 –
Kamehameha II ,
King of Hawaii (b. 1797)
July 19 –
Agustín de Iturbide ,
Emperor of Mexico (b. 1783)
July 20 –
Maine de Biran , French philosopher (b. 1766)
July 21 –
Buddha Loetla Nabhalai (Rama II),
King of Siam (
Thailand ) (b. 1767)
August 12 –
Charles Nerinckx , Belgian-born founder of the
Sisters of Loretto (b. 1761)
August 24 –
Valentine Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl , Irish politician (b. 1752)
September 16 – King
Louis XVIII of France (b. 1755)
October 13 –
Sir James Lamb, 1st Baronet of England (b. 1752)
October 30 –
Charles Maturin , Irish writer (b. 1773)
December 5 –
Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy , French confidant of
Benjamin Franklin (b. 1744)
December 21 –
James Parkinson , English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, palaeontologist, and political activist (b. 1755)
Dates unknown
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