1824
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1824 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
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Events
- January 22 - Ashantis crush British forces in the Gold Coast
- Cimetière du Montparnasse established
- The Dutch sign the Masang Agreement temporarily ending hostilities in the Padri War
- 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.
- November - Andrew Jackson receives more popular votes than John Quincy Adams in the U.S. presidential election.
- December 1 - U.S. presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task to decide the winner (as stipulated by the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution).
- 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
Ongoing events
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 10 - Freeman Towns, American Entrepreneur (d. 1861)
- March 12 - Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (d. 1887)
- May 19 - William Allingham, Irish author (d. 1889)
- May 23 - Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general (d. 1881)
- June 22 - Frederic Louis Ritter, composer
- June 26 - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, English 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)
Deaths
- January 21 - Jean Baptiste Drouet, French revolutionary (b. 1765)
- January 26 - Théodore Géricault, French writer (b. 1791)
- 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)af:1824
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