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Historical Events for the Year 1834

  • 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)
  • 23rd May » Carl Bloch, Danish painter (d. 1890)
  • 18th June » Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie, French philosopher and academic (d. 1895)
  • 19th June » Charles Spurgeon, English pastor and author (d. 1892)
  • 21st June » Frans de Cort, Flemish poet and author (d. 1878)
  • 21st June » Elizabeth Jane Caulfeild, Countess of Charlemont (d. 1882)
  • 1st July » Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet and author (d. 1908)
  • 9th July » Jan Neruda, Czech journalist and poet (d. 1891)
  • 11th July » James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American-English painter and illustrator (d. 1903)
  • 19th July » Edgar Degas, French painter (d. 1917)
  • 2nd August » Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (d. 1904)
  • 4th August » John Venn, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1923)
  • 22nd August » Samuel Pierpont Langley, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1906)
  • 31st August » Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer and educator (d. 1886)
  • 9th September » Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English author (d. 1903)
  • 8th October » Walter Kittredge, American violinist and composer (d. 1905)
  • 10th October » Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author (d. 1872)
  • 10th November » José Hernández (writer) called José Hernández, Argentinian journalist, poet, and politician (d. 1886)
  • 19th November » Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist and academic (d. 1924)
  • 16th December » Léon Walras, French-Swiss economist and theorist (d. 1910)

Famous Deaths in History for 1834

  • 12th January » William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
  • 16th January » Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (b. 1769)
  • 17th January » Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (b. 1762)
  • 6th February » Richard Lemon Lander, English explorer (b. 1804)
  • 12th February » Friedrich Schleiermacher, German philosopher and scholar (b. 1768)
  • 5th April » Richard Goodwin Keats, English admiral (b. 1757)
  • 20th May » Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French general (b. 1757)
  • 9th June » William Carey (missionary) known as William Carey, English minister and missionary (b. 1761)
  • 28th June » Joseph Bové, Russian architect, designed the Triumphal Arch of Moscow (b. 1784)
  • 14th July » Edmond-Charles Genêt, French-American diplomat (b. 1763)
  • 25th July » Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English philosopher, poet, and critic (b. 1772)
  • 7th August » Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor, invented the Jacquard loom (b. 1752)
  • 17th August » Husein Gradaščević, Bosniak general (b. 1802)
  • 2nd September » Thomas Telford, Scottish engineer and architect, designed the Menai Suspension Bridge (b. 1757)
  • 9th September » James Weddell, Belgian-English sailor and navigator (b. 1787)
  • 24th September » Pedro I of Brazil (b. 1798)
  • 8th October » François-Adrien Boieldieu, French composer (b. 1775)
  • 23rd December » Thomas Robert Malthus, English economist and demographer (b. 1766)
  • 27th December » Charles Lamb, English author (b. 1775)