1834

1834 (MDCCCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1834th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 834th year of the 2nd millennium, the 34th year of the 19th century, and the 5th year of the 1830s decade. As of the start of 1834, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
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Film - Literature – Music - (jazz)
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Lists of leaders
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Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
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1834 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1834
MDCCCXXXIV
Ab urbe condita2587
Armenian calendar1283
ԹՎ ՌՄՁԳ
Assyrian calendar6584
Balinese saka calendar1755–1756
Bengali calendar1241
Berber calendar2784
British Regnal year4 Will. 4 – 5 Will. 4
Buddhist calendar2378
Burmese calendar1196
Byzantine calendar7342–7343
Chinese calendar癸巳年 (Water Snake)
4530 or 4470
    — to —
甲午年 (Wood Horse)
4531 or 4471
Coptic calendar1550–1551
Discordian calendar3000
Ethiopian calendar1826–1827
Hebrew calendar5594–5595
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1890–1891
 - Shaka Samvat1755–1756
 - Kali Yuga4934–4935
Holocene calendar11834
Igbo calendar834–835
Iranian calendar1212–1213
Islamic calendar1249–1250
Japanese calendarTenpō 5
(天保５年)
Javanese calendar1761–1762
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4167
Minguo calendar78 before ROC
民前78年
Nanakshahi calendar366
Thai solar calendar2376–2377
Tibetan calendar阴水蛇年
(female Water-Snake)
1960 or 1579 or 807
    — to —
阳木马年
(male Wood-Horse)
1961 or 1580 or 808
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January 1: Zollverein and German Unification

Events
The Buxton Memorial Fountain in London, celebrating the emancipation of slaves.

January–March

April–June
  • April 10 – The LaLaurie mansion in New Orleans burns, and Madame Marie Delphine LaLaurie flees to France.
  • April 14 – The Whig Party is officially named by United States Senator Henry Clay.
  • April 22 – Spain, France, Portugal and the United Kingdom sign the Quadruple Alliance.
  • May 9 – The founder of The Second Saudi State, Imam Turki bin Abdulla Al Saud, is assassinated after the Friday prayers by Ibrahim Hamza, following the orders of his cousin Mishari.
  • May 19 – The Syrian Peasant Revolt (1834–35) erupts in Egyptian-ruled Ottoman Syria, encompassing peasant uprisings in Palestine and Transjordan, Galilee and Hauran and the Syrian coast; the rebellions are suppressed with harsh military response leading to thousands of deaths and mostly subdued by August, though the Syrian coast uprising lasts until early 1835.
  • June 7 – Greek independence: General Theodoros Kolokotronis is sentenced to death for treason, for resisting the rule of Otto of Greece (he is released the following year).
  • June 21 – American inventor and businessman Cyrus McCormick is granted a patent for his mechanical reaper.

July–September
  • July 7 – 10 – Anti-abolitionist riots break out in New York City.
  • July 8 – Imam Faisal bin Turki enters Riyadh and upon entering his father's palace, assassinates his father's murderer, Ibrahim Hamza, and his master; Mishari, and becomes the ruler and founder of the Second Saudi State.
  • July 15 – The Spanish Inquisition, which began in the 15th century, is suppressed by royal decree.
  • July 16 – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne succeeds Earl Grey as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • July 24 – The Liberal Wars end in Portugal.
  • July 29 – The Office of Indian Affairs is organized in the United States.
  • August 1
  • August 11–12 – Ursuline Convent riots: A convent of Ursuline nuns is burned near Boston.
  • August 12 – In the Empire of Brazil, the Additional Act provides for establishment of the Provincial Legislative Assembly, extinction of the State Council, replacement of the Regency Trina, and introduction of a direct and secret ballot.
  • August 14 – The Poor Law Amendment Act in the United Kingdom states that no able-bodied British man can receive assistance, unless he enters a workhouse (a kind of poorhouse).
  • August 15 – The South Australia Act allows for the creation of a colony there.
  • September 11 – The emigrant ship Sybelle out of Cromarty (Scotland) is wrecked off St. Paul Island (Nova Scotia) with the loss of all 316 passengers and all but six of her crew.[5]
  • September 13 – The Gleaner newspaper is first published in Jamaica.
  • September 18 – Athens becomes Greece's capital city.

October–December

Date unknown
  • The British East India Company monopoly on China trade ends. It appoints a Tea Committee to assess the potential of Assam tea.
  • Athens becomes Greece's capital city.
  • The Medical School of Louisiana (later Tulane University) is founded in New Orleans.
  • Charles Babbage begins the conceptual design of the Analytical Engine, a mechanical forerunner of the modern computer. It will not be built in his lifetime.[9][10]
  • Thomas Davenport, inventor of the first American DC electrical motor, installs his motor in a small model car, creating one of the first electric cars.
  • The Romanian language is banned in the schools and government facilities of the Russian Empire's Bessarabia Governorate.[11]

Births

January–June
Heinrich von Treitschke
Gottlieb Daimler.

July–December
James McNeill Whistler
Edgar Degas
Aleksis Kivi

Deaths

January–June
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Gilbert du Motier

July–December
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Jonathan Jennings
Pedro I of Brazil

References
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  2. G. D. H. Cole, Attempts at General Union (Taylor & Francis, 2010) p122
  3. Sher, D. (1965). "The Curious History of NGC 3603". Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. 59: 76. Bibcode:1965JRASC..59...67S.
  4. Kitching, Sophie (February 9, 2018). "The bizarre reason this Hull landmark was moved 82 years ago". Hull Daily Mail. Trinity Mirror. Archived from the original on March 2, 2021. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
  5. "Shipping Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury. No. 1225. October 24, 1834.
  6. "Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) pp74-75
  7. Michael S. Patridge, The Duke of Wellington, 1769-1852: A Bibliography (Greenwood Publishing, 1990) p129
  8. Rory Muir, Wellington: Waterloo and the Fortunes of Peace 1814-1852 (Yale University Press, 2013) pp439-440
  9. Hyman, Anthony (1982). Charles Babbage: pioneer of the computer. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-858170-X.
  10. "Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871 (Trial model)". Science Museum, London. Archived from the original on September 20, 2010. Retrieved October 1, 2010.
  11. Stoica, Vasile (1919). The Roumanian Question: The Roumanians and their Lands. Pittsburgh Printing Company. p. 31.
  12. Dell, R.K. (1990). "Hector, James". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
  13. Whiteway, Michael (2004). Christopher Dresser: A Design Revolution. London: V&A Publications. ISBN 978-1-85177-428-9.
  14. Aleksis Kivi at the Encyclopædia Britannica
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