1824
This page is about the year 1824. For the board game, see 1824.1824 was a
leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
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January 8 - After much controversy,
Michael Faraday is finally elected as a member of the
Royal Society with only one vote against.
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January 22 -
Ashanti crush
British forces in the
Gold Coast (See also
Wars between Britain and Ashanti in Ghana and
Ashanti Confederacy).
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March 17 signing of the
Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824.
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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.
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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, Queensland,
Australia, after leaving
Sydney.
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September 16 Charles X succeeds
Louis XVIII as King of
France.
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October 10 -
Edinburgh Town Council makes a decision to found the
Edinburgh Municipal Fire Brigade, the first
fire brigade in Britain.
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November 15-
16 - 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 homeless.
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November 5- first
technological university in the English-speaking world founded:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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December 9 - At the
Battle of Ayacucho, Peruvian forces defeat Spanish.
Unknown dates
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Simón Bolívar proclaimed
Emperor of
Peru.
* The British take
Rangoon.
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Frontier treaty between
United States and
Russia is signed.
* Egyptians capture
Crete.
* Turks seize island of
Ipsara from Greeks but are defeated at
Mytilene.
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Beethoven's
Symphony No. 9 debuts
* What is now the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in Britain was founded in earnest.
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Cimetière du Montparnasse established
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Dutch sign the
Masang Agreement temporarily ending hostilities in the
Padri War*
First Burmese War (
1823–
1826)
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January 8 -
Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d.
1889)
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January 21 -
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, American Confederate general (d.
1863)
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February 7 -
William Huggins, British astronomer (d.
1910)
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February 16 -
Peter Kozler, Slovenian cartographer and geographer (d.
1879)
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March 2 -
Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (d.
1885)
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March 9 -
Amasa Leland Stanford, Governor of California (d.
1893)
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March 12 -
Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (d.
1887)
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March 19 -
William Allingham, Irish author (d.
1889)
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May 6 -
Tokugawa Iesada, Japanese shogun (d.
1858)
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May 16 -
Levi P. Morton, 22nd
Vice President of the United States (d.
1920)
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May 23 -
Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general (d.
1881)
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June 26 -
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist and engineer (d.
1907)
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June 28 -
Paul Broca, French anthropologist (d.
1880)
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July 12 -
Eugène Boudin, French painter (d.
1898)
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July 27 -
Alexandre Dumas, fils, French writer (d.
1895)
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September 4 -
Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (d.
1896)
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October 5 -
Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and historian (d.
1908)
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December 10 -
George MacDonald, English writer (d.
1905)
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December 14 -
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d.
1898)
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Gideon T. Stewart, American temperance movement leader (d.
1907)
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Juan Valera y Alcala Galiano, Spanish author (d.
1905)
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January 21 -
Jean Baptiste Drouet, French revolutionary (b.
1765)
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January 26 -
Théodore Géricault, French painter (b.
1791)
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February 5 -
Marie Duplessis, French courtesan (tuberculosis)
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February 21 -
Eugène de Beauharnais, son of
Josephine de Beauharnais (b.
1781)
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April 19 -
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (b.
1788)
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May 26 -
Capel Lofft, English writer (b.
1751)
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June 16 -
Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (b.
1739)
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June 18 -
Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b.
1769)
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June 21 -
Étienne Aignan, French writer (b.
1773)
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September 16 -
Louis XVIII of France (b.
1755)
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October 30 -
Charles Robert Maturin, Irish writer (b.
1773)
