1834
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| Centuries: | 18th century - 19th century - 20th century |
| Decades: | 1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s
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| Years: | 1831 1832 1833 - 1834 - 1835 1836 1837 |
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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).
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[edit] Events of 1834
Image:Emancipation of Slaves 1834 monument - Victoria Tower Gardens - Millbank - Westminster - London - 24042004.jpg
The Buxton Memorial Fountain in London, celebrating the emancipation of slaves.
- 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
- 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 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 15 - South Australia Act allows for the creation of a colony there.
- October 16 - Palace of Westminster destroyed by fire
- December 10 - Sir Robert Peel succeeds Lord Melbourne as Prime Minister of the UK
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- 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.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1834 MDCCCXXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2587 |
| Armenian calendar | 1283 ԹՎ ՌՄՁԳ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -10 – -9 |
| Berber calendar | 2784 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2378 |
| Burmese calendar | 1196 |
| Chinese calendar | 4470/4530-11-22 (癸巳年十一月廿二日) — to — 4471/4531-12-2(甲午年十二月初二日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1550 – 1551 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1826 – 1827 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5594 – 5595 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1889 – 1890 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1756 – 1757 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4935 – 4936 |
| Holocene calendar | 11834 |
| Iranian calendar | 1212 – 1213 |
| Islamic calendar | 1249 – 1250 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenpō 5 (天保5年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2494 (皇紀2494年) |
| Julian calendar | 1879 |
| Korean calendar | 4167 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2377 |
[edit] January - June
- January 7 - Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (d. 1874)
- 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)
- 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)
[edit] 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)
- See also Category: 1834 births.
[edit] Deaths
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
- See also Category: 1834 deaths.
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