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1829

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Year 1829 (MDCCCXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1829

January - June

January 19:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

July - December

  • July 2 - Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829: Russian Field-Marshal Hans Karl von Diebitsch launches the Transbalkan offensive, which would bring the Russian army within 68 km from Istanbul.
  • July 23 - In the United States, William Burt obtains the first patent for a writing mechanism. (See typewriter)
  • August 8 - France: The Prince de Polignac succeeds the Vicomte de Martignac as Prime Minister of France.
  • August 12 - Mrs Helen Dance, wife of the Captain of the ship Sulphur, cuts down a tree to mark the day of the founding of the town of Perth, Western Australia.
  • September 16 - Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829: Treaty of Adrianople gains for Russia some territory at the mouth of the Danube and along the eastern coast of the Black Sea.
  • October 1 - South Africa: University of Cape Town founded.
  • October 8 - Rail transport: The Rocket wins The Rainhill Trials.
  • November 30 - The original Welland Canal opens for a trial run with a ceremony at Port Dalhousie.
  • December 4 - India: In the face of fierce opposition, British Lord William Bentinck carries a regulation declaring that all who abetted suttee in India were guilty of culpable homicide.

Undated

  • Juan Manuel de Rosas becomes dictator of Argentina
  • James Smithson leaves £100.000 to fund the Smithsonian Institution
  • Religious freedom restored in Ireland (see History of Ireland)
  • Chalmers University of Technology founded.
  • Metropolitan Police Act 1829 passed, established the first modern police force, the Metropolitan Police Service ("bobbies") of London.

Births

1829 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1829
MDCCCXXIX
Ab urbe condita 2582
Armenian calendar 1278
ԹՎ ՌՄՀԸ
Assyrian calendar 6579
Bahá'í calendar -15–-14
Bengali calendar 1236
Berber calendar 2779
British Regnal year Geo. 4 – 10 Geo. 4
Buddhist calendar 2373
Burmese calendar 1191
Byzantine calendar 7337–7338
Chinese calendar 戊子年十一月廿六日
(4465/4525-11-26)
— to —
己丑年十二月初六日
(4466/4526-12-6)
Coptic calendar 1545–1546
Ethiopian calendar 1821–1822
Hebrew calendar 5589–5590
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1885–1886
 - Shaka Samvat 1751–1752
 - Kali Yuga 4930–4931
Holocene calendar 11829
Igbo calendar
 - Ǹrí Ìgbò 829–830
Iranian calendar 1207–1208
Islamic calendar 1244–1245
Japanese calendar Bunsei 12
(文政12年)
Juche calendar N/A (before 1912)
Julian calendar Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar 4162
Minguo calendar 83 before ROC
民前83年
Thai solar calendar 2372
  • January 3 - Konrad Duden, German philologist (d. 1911)
  • January 17 - Catherine Booth, the Mother of The Salvation Army (d. 1890)
  • January 21 - King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway (d. 1907)
  • February 2 - Alfred Brehm, German zoologist (d. 1884)
  • February 26 - Levi Strauss, American clothing designer (d. 1902)
  • March 2 - Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and American statesman (d. 1906)
  • March 16 - Sully Prudhomme, French author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)
  • March 19 - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (d. 1901)
  • April 10 - William Booth, the founder of The Salvation Army (d. 1912)
  • May 5 - Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (d. 1862)
  • May 8 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American composer and pianist (d. 1869)
  • June 8 - John Everett Millais, Pre-Raphaelite painter (d. 1896)
  • June 16 - Geronimo, Apache leader (d. 1909)
  • July 14 - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1896)
  • July 26 - Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert, Belgian statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1912)
  • September 7 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist (d. 1896)
  • October 3 - Sigismund von Schlichting, Prussian general (d. 1909)
  • October 5 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (d. 1886)
  • November 28 - Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1894)

Deaths

  • January 29 - Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (b. 1755)
  • February 10 - Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)
  • February 11 - Alexander Griboyedov, Russian playwright and diplomat (b. 1795)
  • April 6 - Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (b. 1802)
  • May 10 - Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (b. 1773)
  • May 17 - John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745)
  • May 29 - Sir Humphry Davy, British chemist (b. 1778)
  • June 27 - James Smithson, British mineralogist and chemist who left a bequest in his will to the United States of America which was used to initially fund the Smithsonian Institution (b. 1765)
  • December 12 - John Lansing, Jr., American statesman (disappeared) (b. 1754)
  • December 28 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (b. 1744)
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