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Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s
Years: 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 - 1834 - 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839
Events
- January 3 - The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City
- March 6 - York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
- March 28 - The United States Senate censures President Andrew Jackson for his actions in defunding the Second Bank of the United States
- July 16 - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne succeeds Earl Grey as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- December 10 - Sir Robert Peel succeeds Lord Melbourne as Prime Minister of the U.K.
- Spanish Inquisition, which began in the 13th century, was suppressed.
- South Australia Act[?] allows for the creation of an colony there.
- British East India Company monopoly on China trade ended
- Sixth Kaffir War[?]; severe clashes between white settlers and Bantu peoples in Cape Colony. Dutch speaking settlers colonize area north of Orange River.
- US President Andrew Jackson censured by United States Senate for taking out deposits from the Bank of the United States[?].
- Fire at the British Houses of Parliament
- Poor Law Amendment Act[?] states that no able-bodied British man can receive assistance unless he enters a workhouse.
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame, novel by Victor Hugo
Births
- January 7 - Johann Philipp Reis[?], physicist, inventor (+ 1874)
- February 7 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, chemist and inventor of the Periodic table of the chemical elements
- February 9 - Felix Dahn[?], author (+ 1912)
- February 16 - Ernst Haeckel, zoologist and philosopher (+ 1919)
- March 17 - Gottlieb Daimler, engineer and inventor (+ 1900)
- March 24 - John Wesley Powell, explorer, environmentalist (+ 1902)
- April 1 - James Fisk, entrepreneur (+ 1872)
- April 2 - Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor
- July 19 - Edgar Degas, painter
- August 31 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer
- Charles Spurgeon, English Baptist preacher
- William Morris, English poet and artist
- Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist and philosopher
Deaths
- July 25 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Romantic poet, literary critic, philosopher, newspaper writer, teacher
- December 23 - Thomas Malthus, economist and political philosopher
- December 27 - Charles Lamb, English essayist
- Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologian
- William Blackwood, English writer.
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apartment.
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confinement. They walked a few paces in silence, Colonel Talbot
addressed Edward.
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and cockade of these men.'
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nothing extraordinary in finding a man whose honour has been
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