1834

Decades: 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s

Years: 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 - 1834 - 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839

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

Year in Topic

• 1834 in literature:
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame, novel by Victor Hugo
• 1834 in music
• 1834 in science

Births

• January 7 - Johann Philipp Reis, physicist, inventor (+ 1874)
• February 7 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, chemist and inventor of the Periodic table of the chemical elements († 1907)
• February 9 - Felix Dahn, author (+ 1912)
• February 16 - Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist and philosopher (+ 1919)
• March 16 - James Hector, Scottish geologist († 1907)
• March 17 - Gottlieb Daimler, engineer and inventor (+ 1900)
• March 23 - Julius Reubke, composer (+ 1858).
• March 24 - William Morris, English poet and artist († 1896)
• March 24 - John Wesley Powell, explorer, environmentalist (+ 1902)
• April 1 - James Fisk, entrepreneur (+ 1872)
• April 2 - Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor († 1904)
• June 19 - Charles Spurgeon, English Baptist preacher († 1892)
• July 10 - James McNeill Whistler, painter and etcher († 1903)
• July 19 - Edgar Degas, painter († 1917)
• August 22 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist and aeronautics pioneer († 1906)
• August 31 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer († 1886)

Deaths

• 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)

Heads of states

• Ottoman Empire - Mahmud II Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808-1839)
• Prussia - Frederick William III King of Prussia (1797-1840)

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