1824
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Years: 1821 1822 1823 - 1824 - 1825 1826 1827 |
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Decades: 1790s 1800s 1810s - 1820s - 1830s 1840s 1850s |
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Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1824 in topic: Lists of leaders: |
1824 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
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Events
- January 22 - Ashanti crush British forces in the Gold Coast (See also Wars between Britain and Ashanti in Ghana and Ashanti Confederacy)
- March 17 signing of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824.
- March 11 - The United States War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Ely Parker of the Seneca tribe becomes its first director.
- 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.
- September 16 Charles X succeeds 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 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
- November 5- first technological university in the English-speaking world founded: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- December 9 - At the Battle of Ayacucho, Peruvian forces defeat Spanish.
- Simón Bolívar proclaimed Emperor of Peru.
- The British take Rangoon.
- Frontier treaty between United States and Russia is signed.
- Egyptians capture Crete.
- Turks seize island of Ipsara from Greeks but are defeated at Mytilene.
- Beethoven's 9th symphony debuts
- Cimetière du Montparnasse established
- The Dutch sign the Masang Agreement temporarily ending hostilities in the Padri War
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Ongoing events
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Births
- January 8 - Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889)
- January 21 - Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, American Confederate general (d. 1863)
- February 7 - William Huggins, British astronomer (d. 1910)
- February 16 - Peter Kozler, Slovenian cartographer and geographer (d. 1879)
- March 2 - Bedrich 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)
- May 6 - Tokugawa Iesada, 13th Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (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 22 - Frederic Louis Ritter, composer
- June 26 - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist and engineer (d. 1907)
- June 28 - Paul Pierre Broca, French anthropologist (d. 1880)
- July 12 - Eugène Boudin, French painter (d. 1898)
- July 27 - Alexandre Dumas, fils, French writer (d. 1895)
- September 4 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (d. 1896)
- October 5 - Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and historian (d. 1908)
- October 18 - Frantisek Pivoda, composer
- December 10 - George MacDonald, English writer (d. 1905)
- December 14 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d. 1898)
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Deaths
- January 21 - Jean Baptiste Drouet, French revolutionary (b. 1765)
- January 26 - Théodore Géricault, French painter (b. 1791)
- February 5 - Marie Duplessis, famous French courtesan, dies of tuberculosis in Paris - her funeral is lavish
- February 21 - Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Josephine de Beauharnais (b. 1781)
- March 2 - Haswell Rowson, author
- April 19 - George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (b. 1788)
- May 26 - Capel Lofft, English writer (b. 1751)
- June 18 - Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1769)
- June 21 - Étienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773)
- August 14 - Hugh Wilson, composer
- September 16 - Louis XVIII of France (b. 1755)
- October 30 - Charles Robert Maturin - Irish playwright and novelist (b. 1773)