1834

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1 Events

Events

January 3 - The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City
March 6 - York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
March 28 - The United States Senate censures President Andrew Jackson for his actions in defunding the Second Bank of the United States
June 14 - Isaac Fischer, Jr. patents sandpaper
July 16 - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne succeeds Earl Grey as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
August 1 - Slavery abolished in the British Empire
August 14 - Poor Law Amendment Act states that no able-bodied British man can receive assistance unless he enters a workhouse
August 15 - South Australia Act allows for the creation of an colony there
October 16 - Much of the Palace of Westminster is destroyed by fire
December 10 - Sir Robert Peel succeeds Lord Melbourne as Prime Minister of the U.K.
Spanish Inquisition, which began in the 13th century, was suppressed.
British East India Company monopoly on China trade ended
Sixth Kaffir War; severe clashes between white settlers and Bantu peoples in Cape Colony. Dutch speaking settlers colonize area north of Orange River
Tolpuddle Martyrs transported to Australia
The Hansom cab is patented
Louis Braille perfects his Braille system

January 17 - Giovanni Aldini, physicist (* 1762)
February 2 - Lorenzo Dow, US minister (* 1777)
February 12 - Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologian (* 1768)
March 2 - José Cecilo del Valle, 1st President of Central America (* 1780)
April 10 - John 'Merino' MacArthur, Australian farmer (* 1767)
April 11 - John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, philanthropist and patron of the arts and sciences (* 1757)
May 20 - Marquis de la Fayette, nobleman and soldier (* 1757)
July 12 - David Douglas, botanist (* 1799)
July 25 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Romantic poet, literary critic, philosopher, newspaper writer, teacher (* 1772)
August 7 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, inventor (* 1752)
September 2 - Thomas Telford, Scottish engineer (* 1757)
September 9 - James Weddell, Antarctic explorer (* 1787)
September 16 - William Blackwood, English writer (* 1776)
September 24 - Pedro I of Brazil (* 1798)
October 11 - William John Napier, British Navy officer, politician and diplomat (* 1786)
December 23 - Thomas Malthus, economist and political philosopher (* 1766)
December 27 - Charles Lamb, English essayist (* 1775)

China - Daoguang Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (September 2, 1820 to February 25, 1850
Denmark - Frederick VI, King of Denmark (1808-1839)
France - Louis-Phillippe, King of the French (August 1, 1830 to February 24, 1848
Norway - Charles III, King of Norway (1818-1844)
Ottoman Empire - Mahmud II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808-1839)
Prussia - Frederick William III, King of Prussia (1797-1840)
Russia - Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia (December 26, 1825 to March 2, 1855)
Spain - Isabella II, Queen of Spain (September 29, 1833 to September, 1868)
United States - Andrew Jackson, President of the United States (March 4, 1829 to March 4, 1837)