29th January » US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a trade union named labor dispute.
3rd February » Wake Forest University is established.
6th March » York, Upper Canada known as York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
18th March » Tolpuddle Martyrs known as Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
3rd April » The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.
16th May » The Battle of Asseiceira is fought, the last and decisive engagement of the Liberal Wars in Portugal.
30th May » Joaquim António de Aguiar issues a law extinguishing "all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses of the regular religious orders" in Portugal, earning him the nickname of "The Friar-Killer".
7th July » In New York City, Anti-abolitionist riots (1834) or four nights of rioting against Abolitionism in the United States or abolitionists began.
15th July » The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years.
1st August » Slavery in the British Isles e.g Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.
9th October » Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
16th October » Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London Burning of Parliament named burns to the ground.
28th October » The Battle of Pinjarra is fought in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
1st December » Slavery is abolished in the British Cape Colony named Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
3rd December » The Zollverein (German Customs Union) begins the first regular census in Germany.
Famous Birthdays in 1834
1st January » Ludovic Halévy, French playwright (d. 1908)
5th January » William John Wills, English surgeon and explorer (d. 1861)
7th January » Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor, invented the Reis telephone (d. 1874)
10th January » John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, English historian and politician (d. 1902)
15th January » Samuel Arza Davenport, American politician (d. 1911)
16th January » Robert R. Hitt, American politician, 13th United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1906)
17th January » August Weismann, German biologist (d. 1914)
20th January » George D. Robinson, American politician, 34th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
6th February » Edwin Klebs, German-Swiss pathologist (d. 1913)
6th February » Ema Pukšec, Croatian soprano (d. 1889)
6th February » Wilhelm von Scherff, German general (d. 1911)
8th February » Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (d. 1907)
9th February » Felix Dahn, German author (d. 1912)
13th February » Heinrich Caro, German chemist (d. 1910)
15th February » V. A. Urechia, Moldavian-Romanian historian, author, and politician (d. 1901)
16th February » Ernst Haeckel, German biologist and philosopher (d. 1919)
6th March » George du Maurier, French-English author and illustrator (d. 1896)
16th March » James Hector, Scottish geologist (d. 1907)
17th March » Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and businessman, co-founded Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (d. 1900)
20th March » Charles William Eliot, American academic (d. 1926)
23rd March » Julius Reubke, German pianist and composer (d. 1858)
24th March » William Morris, English poet and designer (d. 1896)
24th March » John Wesley Powell, American soldier, geologist, and explorer (d. 1902)
27th March » Pierre Gaspard (mountaineer) called Pierre Gaspard, French mountaineer (d. 1915)
1st April » James Fisk (financier) named James Fisk, American businessman (d. 1872)
16th April » Charles Lennox Richardson, English-Chinese merchant (d. 1862)
26th April » Charles Farrar Browne, American author (d. 1867)
5th May » Viktor Hartmann, Russian architect and painter (d. 1873)
22nd May » Niwa Nagakuni, Japanese daimyo (d. 1904)