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1829 (
MDCCCXXIX ) was a
common year starting on Thursday of the
Gregorian calendar and a
common year starting on Tuesday of the
Julian calendar , the 1829th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 829th year of the
2nd millennium , the 29th year of the
19th century , and the 10th and last year of the
1820s decade. As of the start of 1829, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
January–March
January 19: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
March 4:
First inauguration of Andrew Jackson
April–June
June 12:
Perth is founded.
July–September
July 2 –
Russo-Turkish War (1828–29) : Russian Field-Marshal
Hans Karl von Diebitsch launches the Trans-Balkan Offensive, which brings the Russian army within 68 kilometres (42 mi) of
Istanbul .
July 4 –
George Shillibeer begins operating the first bus service in London.
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July 23 – In the United States,
William Burt obtains the first patent for a form of
typewriter , the
typographer .
August 3 –
Gioacchino Rossini 's opera
William Tell (Guillaume Tell) is first performed, in Paris.
August 8 –
France : The
Prince de Polignac succeeds the
Vicomte de Martignac as
Prime Minister of France .
August 10 –
Finsteraarhorn , the highest summit of the
Bernese Alps , is first ascended.
August 12 – Mrs. Helen Dance, wife of the captain of the ship Sulphur , cuts down a tree to mark the founding day of the town of
Perth , Western Australia.
August 14 –
King's College London is founded by
Royal Charter , under the patronage of
King George IV and the Prime Minister,
The Duke of Wellington .
September 14 – The Ottoman Empire signs the
Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the
Russo-Turkish War .
September 28 – African-American abolitionist
David Walker publishes his Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World , in Boston, Massachusetts.
October–December
Births
January–June
King
Oscar II of Sweden
January 1 –
Tommaso Salvini , Italian actor (d. 1915)
January 3 –
Konrad Duden , German philologist (d. 1911)
January 10 –
Epameinondas Deligeorgis , Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1879)
January 17 –
Catherine Booth , English Mother of
The Salvation Army (d. 1890)
January 21 – King
Oscar II of Sweden and Norway (d. 1907)
January 27 –
Isaac Roberts , Welsh astronomer (d. 1904)
February 2
February 22 –
Princess Sumiko , Japanese princess (d. 1881)
February 26 –
Levi Strauss , American clothing designer (d. 1902)
March 2 –
Carl Schurz , German revolutionary, American statesman (d. 1906)
March 14 –
Pierre-Hector Coullié , Cardinal-Archbishop of Lyon (d. 1912)
March 16 –
George M. Robeson , American politician (d. 1897)
March 19 –
Carl Frederik Tietgen , Danish financier, industrialist (d. 1901)
April 6 –
Anna Haslam , Irish women's rights activist, suffragist (d. 1922)
April 10 –
William Booth , British founder of
The Salvation Army (d. 1912)
May 8 –
Louis Moreau Gottschalk , American composer, pianist (d. 1869)
June 4 –
Allan Octavian Hume , British civil servant (d. 1912)
June 5 –
George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen , Scottish-Canadian businessman, philanthropist (d. 1921)
June 6 –
Shusaku Honinbo , Japanese Go player (d. 1862)
June 8 –
Sir John Everett Millais , British Pre-Raphaelite painter (d. 1896)
June 14 –
Bernard Petitjean , French Catholic missionary to Japan (d. 1884)
June 16 –
Geronimo , indigenous American (Apache) leader (d. 1909)
July–December
Adolf Eugen Fick
August Kekulé
July 2 –
Martis Karin Ersdotter , Swedish businesswoman (died 1902)
July 14 –
Edward White Benson ,
Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1896)
July 26 –
Auguste Beernaert , Belgian statesman, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1912)
August 24 –
Emanuella Carlbeck , Swedish social reformer (d. 1901)
September 3 –
Adolf Eugen Fick , German-born physician, physiologist (d. 1901)
September 7 –
August Kekulé , German chemist (d. 1896)
September 12 –
Anselm Feuerbach , German painter (d. 1880)
October 1 –
Sidney Hill , English philanthropist (d. 1908)
October 5 –
Chester A. Arthur , 21st
President of the United States (d. 1886)
October 13 –
Jules Pellechet , French architect (d. 1903)
October 15 –
Asaph Hall , American astronomer (d. 1907)
November 9 –
Sir Peter Lumsden , British general in the Indian army (d. 1918)
November 10 –
Newton Knight , American farmer, soldier and
Southern Unionist in Mississippi and Civil War guerrilla (d.
1922 )
November 28 –
Anton Rubinstein , Russian pianist, composer (d. 1894)
Deaths
January–June
January 6 –
Amalia Holst , German writer, intellectual, and feminist (b. 1758)
January 12 –
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel , German poet, philosopher, and philologist (b. 1772)
January 25 –
William Shield , English violinist, composer (b. 1748)
January 29
February 10 –
Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)
February 11 –
Alexander Griboyedov , Russian playwright, diplomat (b. 1795)
February 17 –
Michel Ange Bernard Mangourit , French diplomat (b. 1752)
February 21 –
Kittur Chennamma , Indian queen regnant (b. 1778)
February 26 –
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein , German painter (b. 1751)
March 2 –
Karl Gottfried Hagen , German chemist (b. 1749)
March 5 –
John Adams , last surviving
Bounty mutineer (b. 1767)
March 8 –
Francesco Ruspoli, 3rd Prince of Cerveteri (b. 1752)
March 30 –
Christopher Frederik Lowzow , Danish-Norwegian army officer (b. 1752)
April 6 –
Niels Henrik Abel , Norwegian mathematician (b. 1802)
April 18 –
Veronika Gut , Swiss rebel heroine (b. 1757)
May 10 –
Thomas Young , English physician, linguist (b. 1773)
May 17 –
John Jay , first
Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745)
May 21 –
Peter I, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (b. 1755)
Humphry Davy
July–December
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
July 11 –
Hannah Mather Crocker , American essayist, advocate of women's rights in America (b. 1752)
July 23 –
Wojciech Bogusławski , actor and director, Father of Polish Theatre (b. 1757)
August 7 –
John Reeves , British judge (b. 1752)
October 10 –
Maria Elizabetha Jacson , British botanist (b. 1755)
October 29 –
Maria Anna Mozart ("Nannerl"), Austrian musician and composer, sister of
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1751)
November 12 –
Jean-Baptiste Regnault , French painter (b. 1754)
November 14 –
Louis Nicolas Vauquelin , French chemist, discoverer of
beryllium and
chromium (b. 1763)
November 26 –
Bushrod Washington , American Supreme Court justice (b. 1762)
December 12 –
John Lansing Jr. , American statesman (disappeared) (b. 1754)
December 28
December 29 –
Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg (b. 1797) (scarlet fever)
Date unknown
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