Today in History for Year 1834

Months in Year 1834: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 57 of 57

Jan 1st - German Tolunie goes into effect
Jan 3rd - The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City.
Jan 5th - Kiowa Indians record this as the night the stars fell
Jan 9th - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port San Julian, Patagonia
Jan 29th - Pres Jackson orders 1st use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute
Feb 3rd - Wake Forest University is established.
Feb 18th - 1st US labor newspaper, "The Man," published, NYC
Feb 26th - 1st US interstate crime compact (NY-NJ) ratified
Mar 6th - Toronto incorporated with William Lyon Mackenzie as its 1st mayor
Mar 9th - French Foreign Legion is founded.
Mar 16th - HMS Beagle anchors at Berkeley Sound, Falkland Islands
Mar 18th - 1st railroad tunnel in US completed, in Penn (275 m long)
Mar 18th - Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
Mar 28th - Senate censure Pres Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of US
Apr 3rd - The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.
Apr 13th - HMS Beagle anchors at river mouth of Rio Santa Cruz, Patagonia
Apr 18th - Charles Darwin sails to Rio Santa Cruz up Patagonia
Apr 29th - Charles Darwin's expedition sees top of Andes from Patagonia
May 1st - Belgian parliament accept railway laws
Naturalist Charles Darwin May 4th - Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean
May 5th - Charles Darwin's expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz
May 8th - Charles Darwin's expedition returns to the Beagle
May 8th - Prussia, Austria & Russia sign classified accord about Belgium
May 26th - Portuguese Civil war ends, Dom Miguel capitulates
Jun 1st - HMS Beagle for anchor in Port Famine, Magallanes Street
Jun 2nd - 5th national black convention meet (NYC)
Jun 8th - HMS Beagle sails from Port Famine to Cape Turn
Jun 10th - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails Pacific Ocean
Jun 14th - Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine
Jun 14th - Isaac Fischer Jr patents sandpaper
Jun 14th - Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont
Jun 15th - Rioters in Safed Palestine kills many Jews
Jun 21st - Cyrus Hall McCormick patents reaping machine
Jun 25th - Pope Gregory XVI's encyclical "Singulari nos" published
Jun 30th - Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
Jul 5th - Provisional government forms in Oregon Country
Jul 23rd - HMS Beagle anchors in Bay of Valparaiso
Aug 1st - Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire - Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into effect
Aug 16th - Charles Darwin climbs Mt Campana in Chile
Aug 17th - Charles Darwins reaches top of Campana Chile
Aug 18th - Mt Vesuvius erupts
Sep 14th - Charles Darwins company passes Tagua-tagua-more Chile
Sep 27th - Charles Darwin returns to Valparaiso
Oct 4th - Franz Grillparzer's "Der Traum ein Leben," premieres in Vienna
Oct 14th - 1st black to obtain a US patent, Henry Blair, for a corn planter
Oct 14th - In Philadelphia, Whigs and Democrats stage a gun, stone and brick battle for control of a Moyamensing Township election, resulting in one death, several injuries, and the burning down of a block of buildings.
Oct 16th - Much of the ancient structures of the Palace of Westminster (parliament) in London is burnt down.
Oct 28th - The Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
Nov 1st - 1st published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game)
Nov 10th - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails from Valparaiso
Nov 14th - William Thomson enters Glasgow University at 10 yrs 4 months
Nov 21st - HMS Beagle anchors at Bay of San Carlos, Chile
Nov 23rd - Hector Berlioz's "Harold in Italy," premieres
Nov 25th - Delmonico's, one of NY's finest restaurants, provides a meal of soup, steak, coffee & half a pie for 12 cents
Dec 3rd - 1st US dental society organized (NY)
Dec 23rd - Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs
Dec 25th - Charles Darwins celebrates Christmas on Beagle at Tres Montes, Chile

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 85 of 85

Jan 1st - Ludovic Halévy, French playwright (d. 1908)
Jan 5th - William John Wills, English explorer of Australia, member of the Burke and Wills expedition (d. 1861)
Jan 7th - Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (d. 1874)
Jan 10th - John Acton, English historian/MP
Jan 14th - William Cleaver Francis Robinson, composer
Jan 16th - Albert Lindley Lee, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1907
Jan 17th - Wilhelmina J R Albregt-Engelman, Dutch actress/daughter of Mimi Bia
Jan 17th - August Weismann, German biologist (d. 1914)
Jan 20th - George D. Robinson, 34th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
Jan 25th - Pablo Hernandez Salces, composer
Jan 27th - Dmitri Mendeleev, chemist (discovered periodic table of the elements)
Jan 27th - Robert Sanford Foster, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Jan 30th - Lord Avebury, [John Lubbock], British banker/politician
Feb 6th - William Dorsey Pender, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
Feb 6th - Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (d. 1889)
Feb 7th - Dmitri I Mendelejev, Russian chemist (Periodic Table)
Feb 9th - Felix Dahn, writer
Feb 9th - Franz Xaver Witt, composer
Feb 15th - William Preece, English electrical engineer/wireless pioneer
Feb 16th - Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, Potsdam Germ, biologist (Causes of Evolution)
Feb 22nd - Albert Heinrich Zabel, composer
Feb 23rd - Gustav Hermann Nachtigal, German physician/colonizer/consul in Tunis
Feb 26th - Aleksander Zarzycki, composer
Mar 4th - Peter Nicolai von Wilm, composer
Mar 6th - George du Maurier British illustrator and writer (d. 1896)
Mar 16th - James Hector, Scottish geologist (d. 1907)
Mar 17th - Gottlieb Daimler, Germany, engineer/inventor/designed 1st motorcycle
Mar 20th - Charles William Elliot, Boston, Pres of Harvard (1869-1909)
Mar 22nd - Francis Asbury Shoup, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
Mar 23rd - Julius Reubke, composer
Mar 24th - John Wesley Powell, US, geologist/explorer/ethnologist
Mar 24th - William Morris, England, designer/craftsman/poet/socialist
Apr 1st - Isidore Edouard Legouix, composer
Apr 1st - Big Jim Fisk, American entrepreneur (d. 1872)
Apr 21st - William Rufus Terrill, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
Apr 26th - Artemus Ward, (Charles Farrar Browne), humorist
Apr 26th - Horatio Richmond Palmer, composer
May 5th - Viktor Hartmann, Russian architect and painter (d. 1873)
May 21st - Charles-Albert Gobat, Switz, politician/lawyer/author (Nobel 1902)
May 23rd - Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (d. 1890)
Jun 8th - George Garrett, composer
Jun 10th - Hendrik Pierson, Dutch theologist (HP Foundation)
Jun 16th - Wesley Merritt, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1910)
Jun 19th - Edgar H G Degas, French painter (ballerina)
Jun 19th - Charles Spurgeon, English preacher (d. 1892)
Jul 1st - Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet (d. 1908)
Jul 2nd - Hendry P G Quack, lawyer/economist/secr Dutch Bank
Jul 10th - James A McNeill Whistler, US/British painter (Whistler's Mother)
Jul 14th - James Abbott McNeill Whistler, artist (Whistler's Mother)
Jul 16th - Carlo Angeloni, composer
Jul 16th - Peter Leyten, bishop of Breda (1885-1914)
Jul 19th - Edgar Degas, France, impressionist painter (Bouquet)
Jul 22nd - Daniel McCook Jr, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
Jul 23rd - James "Cardinal" Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore
Jul 31st - Peter H Hugenholtz, Dutch reformer/founder (Free Parish)
Aug 2nd - Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, Colmar France, sculptor (Statue of Liberty)
Aug 2nd - Isaac Capadose, lawyer/evangelist
Aug 4th - John Venn, English mathematician (d. 1923)
Aug 9th - Elias Alvares Lobo, composer
Aug 17th - Peter Benoit, Flemish composer/conductor (Leie/Rubens Cantata)
Aug 18th - Marshall Field, Conway Massachusetts, owner (Field Dept Store)
Aug 22nd - Nathaniel Harrison Harris, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
Aug 22nd - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer (d. 1906)
Aug 31st - Amilcare Ponchielli, Paderno Italy, composer (I Lituani)
Sep 9th - Joseph H Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant)
Sep 9th - William MacRae, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1882
Sep 15th - Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian/parliament member
Sep 17th - Edouard Pailleron, French attorney/stage writer
Oct 1st - Francis Marion Cockrell, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1915
Oct 3rd - Vilem Blodek, composer
Oct 8th - Walter Kittredge, American musician (d. 1905)
Oct 10th - Aleksis Kivi, [Stenvall], Finland, writer/poet (Nummisuutarit)
Oct 19th - Francis Channing Barlow, US lawyer/gen-major/co-founder (ABA)
Oct 28th - Dudley McIver DuBose, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1883
Nov 10th - Jose Hernandez, Argentina poet (MartinFierro)
Nov 10th - Wager Swayne, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
Nov 13th - Ignacio M Altamirano, Mexican author (El Zarco)
Nov 17th - Stephen Hinsdale Weed, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
Nov 19th - Georg H Quincke, German physicist (test of Quincke)
Nov 20th - Franjo Zaver Kuhac, composer
The Witch of Wall Street Hetty Green (Nov 21st) Nov 21st - Henrietta (Hetty) Green,New Bedford, Massachusetts, financier (Witch of Wall Street), (d. 1916)
Nov 21st - Joseph Jackson Bartlett, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1893
Nov 25th - Jean-Baptist Colyns, composer
Nov 29th - Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Dec 16th - Leon Walras, French economist (border use theory)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 32 of 32

Jan 12th - William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
Jan 16th - Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (b. 1769)
Jan 17th - Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (b. 1762)
Feb 4th - Amelie Julia Candielle, composer, dies at 66
Feb 6th - Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (b. 1804)
Feb 12th - Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 65
Feb 16th - Lionel Lukin, life boat pioneer, dies
Mar 12th - Karl W Feuerbach, mathematician (circle of Feuerbach), dies at 33
May 20th - Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert de Motier, nobleman, dies
May 20th - Marquis de Lafayette, French general, dies
May 23rd - Charles Wesley, composer, dies at 76
Jun 9th - William Carey, one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society (b. 1761)
Jun 10th - Antonius van Gils, RC theologist (against Relief), dies at 75
Jun 28th - Joseph Bové, Russian architect (b. 1784)
Jul 14th - Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution (b. 1763)
Jul 25th - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet, dies at 61
Aug 1st - Robert Morrison, missionary in China/translated bible, dies
Aug 5th - Gijsbert K van Hogendorp, Dutch min of Foreign affairs, dies at 71
Aug 7th - Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor (b. 1752)
Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Jul 25th) Aug 8th - Silvestro Palma, composer, dies at 80
Aug 14th - Friedrich Christian Ruppe, composer, dies at 63
Aug 17th - Husein Gradaščević, Bosnian rebel leader (b. 1802)
Sep 2nd - Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (b. 1757)
Sep 16th - Antoine-Vincent Arnault, French writer (Guillaume the Nassau), dies
Sep 24th - A J Pedro I van Alcantara, Emperor of Brazil (1822-31), dies
Oct 8th - Francois-Adrien Boieldieu, composer, dies at 58
Oct 19th - Cornelis Loots, accountant/poet (Volkswoede), dies at 69
Nov 5th - Aernout Drost, Dutch literary/founder (The Guide), dies at 24
Dec 6th - Jonas Daniel Meyer, Dutch lawyer, dies at 54
Dec 7th - Ludwig Schuncke, composer, dies at 23
Dec 23rd - Reverend Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (b. 1766)
Dec 27th - Charles Lamb, English essayist (b. 1775)