1829
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1829 was a
common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
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January 19 -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's
Faust premieres
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March 4 -
USA:
Andrew Jackson succeeds
John Quincy Adams as the
President of the United States of America.
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March 12 - First Oxford and Cambridge boat race held on the
River Thames in
London.
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March 22 -
Greece receives autonomy from the
Ottoman Empire. This effectively ends the
Greek War of Independence. Greece continues to seek full independence through diplomatic negotiations with the Empire as well as with
Russia,
France and
Britain.
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June 1 â€"
The Philadelphia Inquirer is founded as
The Pennsylvania Inquirer.
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June 3 - The Swan River Colony (later to become the cities of
Perth and
Fremantle) is founded in
Western Australia. This secures the western 'third' of the Australian landmass for the British.
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June 5 -
Slave trade:
HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship
Voladora off the coast of
Cuba.
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June 10 -
Oxford University Boat Club win the very first
boat race.
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July 2 -
Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829: Russian Field-Marshal
Hans Karl von Diebitsch launches the Transbalkan offensive, which would bring the Russian army within 68 km from
Istanbul.
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July 23 - In the
United States,
William Burt obtains the first
patent for a writing mechanism. (See
typewriter)
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August 8 -
France: The
Prince de Polignac succeeds the
Vicomte de Martignac as
Prime Minister of France.
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September 16 -
Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829:
Treaty of Adrianople gains for Russia some territory at the mouth of the
Danube and along the eastern coast of the
Black Sea.
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October 1 -
South Africa:
University of Cape Town founded.
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October 8 -
Rail transport:
The Rocket wins
The Rainhill Trials.
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October 17 - Hooded man tries to assassinate
Kaspar Hauser*
December 4 -
India: In the face of fierce opposition,
British Lord
William Bentinck carries a regulation declaring that all who abetted
suttee in
India were guilty of culpable
homicide.
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Juan Manuel de Rosas becomes dictator of
Argentina*
James Smithson leaves ÂŁ100.000 to fund the
Smithsonian Institution* Religious freedom restored in
Ireland (see
History of Ireland)
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Chalmers University of Technology founded.
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January 3 -
Konrad Duden, German philologist (d.
1911)
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January 17 -
Catherine Booth, the Mother of
The Salvation Army (d.
1890)
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January 21 - King
Oscar II of Sweden and Norway (d.
1907)
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February 2 -
Alfred Brehm, German zoologist (d.
1884)
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February 26 -
Levi Strauss, American clothing designer (d.
1902)
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March 2 -
Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and American statesman (d.
1906)
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March 16 -
Sully Prudhomme, French author,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1907)
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March 19 -
Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (d.
1901)
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April 10 -
William Booth, the founder of
The Salvation Army (d.
1912)
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May 5 -
Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (d.
1862)
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May 8 -
Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American composer and pianist (d.
1869)
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June 16 -
Geronimo, Apache leader (d.
1909)
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July 14 -
Edward White Benson,
Archbishop of Canterbury (d.
1896)
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July 26 -
Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert, Belgian statesman, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1912)
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September 7 -
Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist (d.
1896)
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October 3 -
Sigismund von Schlichting, Prussian general (d.
1909)
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October 5 -
Chester A. Arthur, 21st
President of the United States (d.
1886)
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November 28 -
Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer (d.
1894)
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January 29 -
Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (b.
1755)
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February 10 -
Pope Leo XII (b.
1760)
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April 6 -
Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (b.
1802)
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May 10 -
Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (b.
1773)
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May 17 -
John Jay, first
Chief Justice of the United States (b.
1745)
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May 29 -
Sir Humphry Davy, British chemist (b.
1778)
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June 27 -
James Smithson, English founder of the Smithsonian Institute (b.
1765)
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December 28 -
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (b.
1744)
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John Lansing, Jr., American statesman (disappeared) (b.
1754)
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Andrew Fuller, Founder of the Fuller Baptist Church and The Baptist Missionary Society.
