Historical Events for Year 1829
| ◀ May June Jul ▶ | ||||||
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
| 28 | 29 | 30 | ||||
◀ 1828 1829 1830 ▶ | ||||||
Months in Year 1829: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Events 1 - 40 of 40
Jan 19th - Johann von Goethe's "Faust, Part 1," premieres
Feb 2nd - Madman Jonathan Martin sets York Cathedral afire, does £60,000 damage
Mar 2nd - New England Asylum for the Blind, 1st in US, incorporated, Boston
Mar 4th - Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th president
Mar 4th - Unruly crowd mobs White House during Pres Jackson inaugural ball
Mar 16th - Ohio authorizes high school night classes
Mar 22nd - The three protecting powers (Britain, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
Apr 9th - Danzig (Gdansk) dike break flood kills 1,200
Apr 13th - English Emancipation Act grants freedom of religion to Catholics
Apr 25th - Charles Fremantle arrives in the HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
Apr 28th - Dutch parliament accepts new press laws
May 2nd - After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of the HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia.
May 15th - Joseph Smith ordained by John the Baptist according to Joseph Smith
May 24th - Pope Pius VIII issues his program for pontificate
Jun 5th - The HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
Jun 8th - 1st UK municipal swimming pool outside of London, opens in Liverpool
Jun 10th - The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place.
Jun 19th - Sir Robert Peel found London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies)
Jul 4th - Cornerstone laid for 1st US mint (Chestnut & Juniper St, Phila)
British Prime Minister Robert Peel
Jul 7th - Royal Military Chapel forms
Jul 23rd - William Austin Burt patents "typographer" (typewriter)
Aug 3rd - Gioacchino Rossini's "William Tell," premieres in Paris
Aug 8th - French government of De Polignac forms
Aug 9th - "Stourbridge Lion" locomotive goes into service
Aug 16th - Siamese twins Chang & Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited
Aug 25th - Pres Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses
Aug 31st - Opera "Guillaume Tell" is produced (Paris)
Sep 14th - Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war
Sep 24th - Russia & Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople
Sep 25th - Failed assassination attempt on Simon Bolívar
Sep 28th - Walker's Appeal, racial antislavery pamphlet, published in Boston
Sep 29th - London's Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty (Scotland Yard)
Oct 1st - South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; later to separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.
Oct 16th - Tremont Hotel, 1st US modern hotel opens (Boston)
Military and Political Leader Simon Bolivar
Oct 17th - Delaware River & Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opens
Oct 17th - 1st supposed attack on abandoned German teenager Kaspar Hauser
Nov 20th - Jews expelled from Nikolayev & Sevastopol Russia
Nov 30th - First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, 5 years to the day from the ground breaking.
Dec 4th - Britain abolished "suttee" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre
Dec 21st - 1st stone arch railroad bridge in US dedicated, Baltimore
Today in History via RSS Feed
Today in History via Email
