1824 35521 225755114 2008-07-15T06:54:34Z VolkovBot 3035831 robot Adding: [[vo:1824]] {{year nav|1824}} {{C19YearInTopicX}} :''For the game, see: ''[[1824 (board game)]]. :''For the novel, see: ''[[1824: The Arkansas War]]''. Year '''1824''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDCCCXXIV]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Thursday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Gregorian Calendar]] (or a [[leap year starting on Tuesday]] of the 12-day slower [[Julian calendar]]). <!-- 12-day span=Mon-Sat,Tue-Sun,Wed-Mon,Thu-Tue,Fr-We,Sa-Th,Sun-Fri --> ==Events of 1824== ===January - June=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[January 8]] - After much controversy, [[Michael Faraday]] is finally elected as a member of the [[Royal Society]] with only one vote against him. * [[January 22]] - [[Ashanti people|Ashanti]] crush [[United Kingdom|British]] forces in the [[Gold Coast (British colony)|Gold Coast]], killing the British governor [[Sir Charles MacCarthy]] (See also [[History of Ghana#British Dominance|Wars between Britain and Ashanti in Ghana]] and [[The Ashanti|Ashanti Confederacy]]). *[[February 10]] - [[Simón Bolívar]] proclaimed [[dictator]] of [[Peru]]. * [[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. * [[March 17]] - Signing of the [[Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824]]. * [[May 7]] - One of [[Beethoven]]'s greatest masterpieces, [[Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 9]], premieres in [[Vienna]]. ===July - December=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, to allow date-format preferences. --> * [[September 13]] - With his crew and 29 [[convicts]] aboard the ''Amity'', [[John Oxley]] arrives at and founds the [[Moreton Bay, Queensland|Moreton Bay]] Penal Settlement at what is now [[Redcliffe City, Queensland|Redcliffe]] in [[Queensland]], [[Australia]], after leaving [[Sydney]]. * [[September 16]] - [[Charles X of France|Charles X]] succeeds [[Louis XVIII of France|Louis XVIII]] as King of [[France]]. * [[October 10]] - [[Edinburgh]] Town Council makes a decision to found the Edinburgh Municipal Fire Brigade, the first [[fire brigade]] in Britain. * [[November 5]] - first [[technological university]] in the English-speaking world founded: [[Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]]. * [[November 7]] - Worst flood in [[Saint Petersburg]]: water rose 421 cm above normal and 200 lost their lives. * [[November 30]] - the first sod is turned in [[Ontario]], for the first of four [[Welland Canal]]s ( The canal would open for a trial run exactly 5 years later, to the day ) * [[December 9]] - At the [[Battle of Ayacucho]], Peruvian forces defeat Spanish. * [[December 24]] - The [[Chi Phi]] (ΧΦ) Fraternity was founded at Princeton University. ===Undated=== * The British take [[Yangon|Rangoon]], [[Burma]]. * Egyptians capture [[Crete]]. * [[Cimetière du Montparnasse]] established * The [[Netherlands|Dutch]] sign the Masang Agreement, temporarily ending hostilities in the [[Padri War]] * The name ''[[Australia]]'', recommended by [[Matthew Flinders]] in [[1804]], is finally adopted as the official name of the country once known as ''[[New Holland (Australia)|New Holland]]''. * The [[Panoramagram]] is developed, creating the first volumetric display. * [[Madame Anne Brillon]] dies. ===Ongoing events=== * [[First Burmese War]] ([[1823]]&ndash;[[1826]]) ==Births== {{Year in other calendars|japanese=[[Bunsei]] 6 &ndash; 7}} ===January - June=== <!-- BIRTHS --> <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, to allow date-format preferences. --> * [[January 8]] - [[Wilkie Collins]], British novelist (d. [[1889]]) * [[January 15]] - [[Marie Duplessis]], French courtesan * [[January 21]] - [[Thomas J. Jackson|Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson]], American Confederate general (d. [[1863]]) * [[February 7]] - [[William Huggins]], British astronomer (d. [[1910]]) * [[February 14]] - [[Winfield Scott Hancock]], American Civil War Union general (d. [[1886]]) * [[February 16]] - [[Peter Kozler]], Slovenian cartographer and geographer (d. [[1879]]) * [[March 2]] - [[Bedřich Smetana]], Czech composer (d. [[1885]]) * [[March 9]] - [[Amasa Leland Stanford]], Governor of California (d. [[1893]]) * [[March 12]] - [[Gustav Kirchhoff]], German physicist (d. [[1887]]) * [[March 19]] - [[William Allingham]], Irish author (d. [[1889]]) * [[March 25]] - [[Clinton L. Merriam]], American politician (d. [[1900]]) * [[May 6]] - [[Tokugawa Iesada]], Japanese shogun (d. [[1858]]) * [[May 16]] - [[Levi P. Morton]], 22nd [[Vice President of the United States]] (d. [[1920]]) * [[May 23]] - [[Ambrose Burnside]], American Civil War general (d. [[1881]]) * [[June 26]] - [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin]], Irish-born physicist and engineer (d. [[1907]]) * [[June 28]] - [[Paul Broca]], French anthropologist (d. [[1880]]) * [[July 12]] - [[Eugène Boudin]], French painter (d. [[1898]]) ===July - December=== <!-- BIRTHS --> <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, to allow date-format preferences. --> * [[July 27]] - [[Alexandre Dumas, fils]], French writer (d. [[1895]]) * [[September 4]] - [[Anton Bruckner]], Austrian composer (d. [[1896]]) * [[October 5]] - [[Henry Chadwick (writer)|Henry Chadwick]], baseball writer and historian (d. [[1908]]) *[[October 18]] - [[Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano]], Spanish author (d. [[1905]]) * [[December 10]] - [[George MacDonald]], English writer (d. [[1905]]) * [[December 14]] - [[Pierre Puvis de Chavannes]], French painter (d. [[1898]]) *''date unknown'' - [[Gideon T. Stewart]], American temperance movement leader (d. [[1907]]) : ''See also [[:Category: 1824 births]].'' ==Deaths== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, to allow date-format preferences. --> * [[January 21]] - [[Jean Baptiste Drouet]], French revolutionary (b. [[1765]]) * [[January 26]] - [[Théodore Géricault]], French painter (b. [[1791]]) * [[February 21]] - [[Eugène de Beauharnais]], son of [[Josephine de Beauharnais]] (b. [[1781]]) * [[April 19]] - [[George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron]], English poet (b. [[1788]]) *[[May 15]] - [[Johann Philipp Stadion, Count von Warthausen]], statesman (b. [[1763]]) * [[May 26]] - [[Capel Lofft]], English writer (b. [[1751]]) * [[June 16]] - [[Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance]], Third Consul of France (b. [[1739]]) * [[June 18]] - [[Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany]] (b. [[1769]]) * [[June 21]] - [[Étienne Aignan]], French writer (b. [[1773]]) *[[July 20]] [[Maine de Biran]], philosopher *[[July 21]] - [[Buddha Loetla Nabhalai]], King of Siam (b. [[1767]]) *[[August 12]] - [[Charles Nerinckx]], founder of the [[Sisters of Loretto]] (b. [[1761]]) *[[September 16]] - [[Louis XVIII of France]] (b. [[1755]]) *[[October 30]] - [[Charles Maturin]], Irish writer (b. 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