Today in History for Year 1824

Months in Year 1824: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 46 of 46

Jan 21st - Ashantees defeat British at Accra, West Africa
Jan 22nd - Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.
Jan 28th - William Kneass becomes 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40)
Feb 4th - J W Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to public
Feb 10th - Simon Bolivar named dictator by the Congress of Peru
Feb 16th - Athenaeum founded
Mar 2nd - Interstate commerce comes under federal control
Mar 4th - The "National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck" was founded in the United Kingdom, later to be renamed The Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1858.
Mar 5th - First Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
Mar 7th - Meyerbeers opera "Il Crociati in Egitto," premieres in Venice
Mar 11th - US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affair
Mar 17th - England & Netherlands sign a trade agreement
Mar 21st - Fire at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses
Mar 26th - 1st performance of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis"
Apr 17th - Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54° 40'N
May 2nd - Goethe visits Ettersberg (Buchenwald)
May 7th - Beethoven's 9th (Chorale) Symphony, premieres in Vienna
May 10th - The National Gallery in London opens to the public in its temporary home in a townhouse on Pall Mall
May 24th - Pope Leo XII proclaims a universal jubilee
Military and Political Leader Simon Bolivar May 26th - Brazil is recognized by US
Jun 8th - Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec
Jun 17th - Bureau of Indian Affairs established
Jun 21st - Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
Jul 24th - Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson
Jul 25th - Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
Jul 30th - Gioacchino Rossini becomes manager of Theatre Italian, Paris
Aug 4th - Battle of Kos is fought between Turks and Greeks.
Aug 6th - Battle at Junan - Simon Bolívars army beats Spanish
Aug 14th - General Lafayette returns to US
Aug 15th - Freed American slaves forms country of Liberia
Sep 26th - Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) & lives
Oct 4th - Mexico becomes a republic
Oct 9th - Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
Oct 21st - Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement (Yorkshire England)
US President & General Andrew Jackson Oct 23rd - 1st steam locomotive is introduced
Nov 2nd - Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Jackson beats J Q Adams
Nov 7th - St Petersburg flood
Nov 15th - Series of fires kills 10 (Edinburgh Scotland)
Nov 16th - NY City's Fifth Avenue opens for business
Nov 19th - Storm causes St Petersburg flood, killing 10,000
Nov 21st - 1st Jewish Reform congregation forms, Charleston, SC
Nov 30th - First ground is broken at Allenburg for the building of the original Welland Canal.
Dec 1st - House of Reps begins to end election deadlock between JQ Adams
Dec 1st - Jackson, WH Crawford & H Clay Adams eventually declared president
Dec 9th - Battle of Ayacucho (Candorcangui), Peru defeats Spain
Dec 16th - Great North Holland Canal opens

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 122

Jan 7th - James Morrison Hawes, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1889
Jan 8th - Per August Olander, composer
Jan 8th - William Wilkie Collins, English novelist (Woman in White)
Jan 8th - Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (d. 1861)
Jan 13th - Ignacy Marceli Komorowski, composer
Jan 14th - Vladimir Stasov, Russian art and music critic (d. 1906)
Jan 15th - Marie Duplessis, French courtesan (d. 1847)
Jan 21st - Thomas Jackson ["Stonewall"], Clarksburg, Virginia, Lt Gen 2nd Corps (ANV, Confed), (d. 1863)
Jan 22nd - Josef Leopold Zvonar, composer
Jan 27th - Jozef Israels, Dutch painter
Jan 29th - Karl von Perfall, composer
Feb 3rd - George Thomas "Tige" Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
Feb 3rd - Nathan George "Shanks" Evans, Brig Gen (Confederacy), died in 1868
Feb 3rd - Ranald MacDonald, Canadian-born Scottish educator and interpreter (d. 1894)
Feb 7th - William Higgins, discoverer (nature of spiral nebulae)
Feb 8th - Barnard Elliot Bee, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1861
Feb 10th - Samuel Plimsoll, Bristol England, inventor (Plimsoll line for ships)
Feb 12th - Arya Samaj Maha Rishi Dayanand Sarsvati, Indian hindu leader
Feb 14th - Winfield Scott Hancock, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
Confederate General Thomas Jackson (Jan 21st) Feb 16th - Peter Kozler, Slovenian cartographer and geographer (d. 1879)
Feb 17th - William Farrar "Baldy" Smith, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1903
Feb 19th - Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator [NS=Mar 2]
Feb 22nd - Pierre Janssen, French astronomer (d. 1907)
Feb 23rd - Herman N van der Tuuk, Dutch philologist (Tobasch' Grammar)
Feb 23rd - Lewis Cass Hunt, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
Feb 24th - John Crawford Vaughn, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1875
Feb 26th - Carlos Calvo, Argentine diplomat/people rights scholar (Calvo Clause)
Feb 28th - Charles Blondin, France, acrobat/aerialist
Feb 28th - John Creed Moore, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
Mar 2nd - Bedrich Friedrich Smetana, Bohemian composer (Bartered Bride, Moldau)
Mar 2nd - Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian theorist [NS]
Mar 2nd - Henry Beebee Carrington, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1912
Mar 5th - Elisha Harris, US, physician/found American Public Health Assoc
Mar 5th - James Merritt Ives, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
Mar 9th - Leland Stanford, (Gov/Sen)/found Stanford U
Mar 10th - Thomas James Churchill, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1905
Mar 12th - Gustav R Kirchoff, Prussia, physicist (spectral analysis)
Mar 15th - Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising)
Mar 15th - Jules Chevalier, French priest (d. 1907)
Mar 19th - William Allingham, Irish author (d. 1889)
Mar 22nd - William Henry Chase Whiting, Major General (Confederate Army)
Mar 25th - Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (d. 1900)
Mar 29th - Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (d. 1899)
Mar 30th - Innis Newton Palmer, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Apr 5th - Sydney Thompson Dobell, poet (Roman)
Apr 20th - Alfred Holt Colquitt, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
Apr 21st - Anselmo Clave, composer
Apr 24th - Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp forger
Apr 25th - Gustave-Rodolphe-Clarence Boulanger, painter
Apr 27th - William Richard Bexfield, composer
May 8th - William Walker, filibuster/president of Nicaragua (1856-57)
May 9th - William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
May 10th - Charles Henry Van Wyck, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
May 11th - Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (d. 1904)
May 16th - Edmund Kirby Smith, Fla, General (Confederate Army), died in 1893
May 16th - Levi Parsons Morton, (R) 22nd US VP (1889-93)
May 23rd - Ambrose Everett Burnside, Major General (Union volunteers)
May 29th - Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox, Major General (Confederate Army)
Jun 3rd - Charles Kinnaird Graham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Jun 8th - James Loudon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies
Jun 8th - William Montgomery Gardner, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1901
Jun 13th - Julius Eichberg, composer
Jun 18th - Johannes Heykamp, Catholic archbishop of Utrecht
Jun 20th - George E Street, British (?) architect
Jun 20th - John Tyler Morgan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
Jun 22nd - Frederic Louis Ritter, composer
Jun 23rd - Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke, composer
Jun 26th - Kelvin, [William Thomson], British physicist (Kelvin Scale)
Jun 26th - Moritz Furstenau, composer
Jun 28th - Paul Broca, France, brain surgeon/anthro (located speech center)
Jun 28th - William Tatus Wofford, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1884
Jun 29th - Victor J van Hinsbergh, South Neth engraver (PTT Stempels)
Jul 7th - Alfred Pleasonton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
Jul 8th - Waldimir "Kriz" Krzyzanowski, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
Jul 10th - Rudolf von Benningsen, German lawyer/politician
Jul 11th - Adolphe-Abraham Samuel, composer
Jul 12th - Eugène Boudin, French painter (d. 1898)
Jul 20th - Alexander Schimmelfennig, Prussia, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
Jul 23rd - Gabriel Colvin Wharton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1906
Jul 25th - Richard James Oglesby, Union (Union volunteers), died in 1899
Jul 27th - Alexandre Dumas fils, France, playwright/novelist (Camille)
Jul 30th - Eugenio Terziani, composer
Aug 1st - Edward Francis Fitzwilliam, composer
Aug 3rd - William Burnham Woods, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Aug 8th - Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse), Tsarina of Russia (d. 1880)
Aug 9th - Simon Goodell Griffin, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Aug 14th - William Terry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1888
Aug 19th - Georg Goltermann, composer
Aug 20th - Absalom Baird, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1905
Aug 21st - John Sanford Mason, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
Aug 27th - Hiram Gregory Berry, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
Aug 28th - Carel JCH van Nispen of Sevenaer, Dutch Catholic politician
Sep 1st - Isaac Hardin Duval, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
Sep 4th - Anton Bruckner, Ansfelden, Austria, Wagner disciple and "monumental bore"/composer
Sep 4th - Phoebe Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Poems of Alice & Phoebe Cary)
Sep 8th - Jaime Nuno, composer
Sep 19th - Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, composer
Sep 21st - Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
Sep 24th - Truman Seymour, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1891
Sep 27th - William Nelson, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 31 of 31

Jan 10th - Victor Emanuel I, king of Sardinia (1802-21), dies at 64
Jan 26th - Théodore Géricault, French painter (b. 1791)
Jan 29th - Louise MC countess of Albany, Henegouws salon owner, dies at 71
Feb 1st - Maria Theresia von Paradis, composer, dies at 64
Feb 8th - Rhijnvis Feith, Dutch mayor/writer (Zwolle, Julia), dies at 71
Feb 9th - Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, German poet, dies at 49
Feb 21st - Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Napoleon's wife, Josephine (b. 1781)
Feb 22nd - John Davy, composer, dies at 60
Mar 3rd - Giovanni Battista Viotti, Italian violist/composer, dies at 70
Mar 9th - Jacobus J Cramer, priest of Holland/Zealand/Friesland, dies at 79
Mar 12th - Heinrich Carl Ebell, composer, dies at 48
Mar 22nd - Johann Melchior Dreyer, composer, dies at 76
Apr 15th - Theodorus F van Capellen, vice-admiral (Algiers), dies at 61
Apr 18th - Edward Jones, composer, dies at 72
Apr 19th - George Gorden Noel "Lord" Byron, poet, dies at 36
Apr 24th - Herman Muntinghe, theologist (History of Mankind), dies at 71
May 4th - Joseph Joubert, French essayist and moralist (b. 1754)
May 15th - Alexander Campbell, composer, dies at 60
May 26th - Capel Lofft, English writer (b. 1751)
Jun 16th - Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (b. 1739)
Jun 18th - Ferdinand III JJ-B, archduke of Austria/ruler of Toscane, dies at 55
Jun 21st - Étienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773)
Jul 20th - Joan M Kemper, lawyer (layed-out Civil Code), dies
Aug 21st - John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70
Aug 21st - Santiago Ferrer, composer, dies at 62
Sep 12th - Louis AG baron de Bacler d'Albe, French cartographer, dies at 62
Sep 16th - Louis XVIII SX, earl of Province/king of France (1814-24), dies
Sep 17th - Giacomo Tritto, composer, dies at 91
Nov 30th - Johann Georg Christoph Schetky, composer, dies at 87
Dec 21st - James Parkinson, English physician, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist (b. 1755)
Dec 25th - Barbara Krudener, mystic visionary who renounced nobility, dies at 60