Notable Historical Events - 1829
1829 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 19 |
Johann von Goethe's "Faust, Part 1," premieres |
Feb 2 |
Madman Jonathan Martin sets York Cathedral on fire, does £60,000 damage |
Mar 2 |
New England Asylum for the Blind, 1st in US, incorporated, Boston |
Mar 4 |
Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th US President |
Mar 4 |
Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Jackson inaugural ball |
Mar 16 |
Ohio authorizes high school night classes |
Mar 22 |
The three protecting powers (Britain, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece. |
Apr 9 |
Danzig (Gdansk) dike break flood kills 1,200 |
Apr 13 |
English Emancipation Act grants freedom of religion to Catholics |
Apr 25 |
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 28 |
Dutch parliament accepts new press laws |
May 2 |
After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of the HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia. |
May 15 |
Joseph Smith ordained by John the Baptist according to Joseph Smith |
May 24 |
Pope Pius VIII issues his program for pontificate |
Jun 5 |
HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba. |
Jun 8 |
1st UK municipal swimming pool outside of London opens in Liverpool |
Jun 10 |
The first Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race takes place. |
Jun 19 |
Robert Peel founds the London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies) |
Jul 4 |
Cornerstone laid for 1st US mint (Chestnut & Juniper St, Phila) |
Jul 4 |
The first London bus "omnibus", operated by George Shillibeer, begins service between Marylebone Road and Bank Junction |
Jul 7 |
Royal Military Chapel forms |
Jul 23 |
William Austin Burt patents "typographer" (typewriter) |
Aug 3 |
Gioacchino Rossini's "William Tell" premieres in Paris |
Aug 8 |
French government of De Polignac forms |
Aug 9 |
"Stourbridge Lion" locomotive goes into service |
Aug 16 |
Siamese twins Chang & Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited |
Aug 25 |
President Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses |
Aug 31 |
Opera "Guillaume Tell" is produced (Paris) |
Sep 14 |
Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war |
Sep 24 |
Russia & Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople |
Sep 25 |
Failed assassination attempt on Simon Bolívar |
Sep 28 |
Walker's Appeal, racial antislavery pamphlet, published in Boston |
Sep 29 |
British Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel establishes London's Metropolitan Police - hence the nicknames "bobbies" and "peelers". |
Oct 1 |
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 16 |
Tremont Hotel, 1st US modern hotel opens (Boston) |
Oct 17 |
Delaware River & Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opens |
Oct 17 |
1st supposed attack on abandoned German teenager Kaspar Hauser |
Nov 20 |
Jews expelled from Nikolayev & Sevastopol Russia |
Nov 30 |
First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, 5 years to the day from the ground breaking. |
Dec 4 |
Britain abolishes "suttee" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre) |
Dec 21 |
1st stone arch railroad bridge in US dedicated, Baltimore |
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