1824

Events

• January 22 - Ashantis crush British forces in the Gold Coast
• Cimetière du Montparnasse established
• The Dutch sign the Masang Agreement temporarily ending hostilities in the Padri War
• March 17 signing of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824.
• March 11 - The United States War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Ely Parker of the Seneca tribe becomes its first director.
• September 16 Charles X succeeds Louis XVIII as King of France.
• November - Andrew Jackson receives more popular votes than John Quincy Adams in the U.S. presidential election.
• December 1 - U.S. presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task to decide the winner (as stipulated by the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution).
• Simón Bolívar proclaimed Emperor of Peru.
• The British take Rangoon.
• Frontier treaty between United States and Russia is signed.
• Egyptians capture Crete.
• Turks seize island of Ipsara from Greeks but are defeated at Mitylene.
• Beethoven's 9th symphony debuts

Ongoing events

• First Burmese War (1823-1826)

Births

• January 8 - Wilkie Collins, novelist (d. 1889)
• January 21 - Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate Army general (d. 1863)
• February 7 - William Huggins, astronomer (d. 1910)
• February 16 - Peter Kozler, cartographer, geographer (d. 1879)
• March 2 - Bedrich Smetana, composer
• March 9 - Amasa Leland Stanford, 8th Governor of California (d. 1893).
• March 12 - Gustav Kirchhoff, physicist (d. 1887)
• May 19 - William Allingham, author (d. 1889)
• May 23 - Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general (d. 1881)
• June 22 - Frederic Louis Ritter, composer
• June 26 - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, physicist and engineer, created kelvin temperature scale (d. 1907)
• June 28 - Paul Pierre Broca, anthropologist (d. 1880)
• September 4 - Anton Bruckner, composer
• October 5 - Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and historian
• October 18 - Frantisek Pivoda, composer
• December 10 - George MacDonald, writer (d. 1905)
• December 14 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter

Deaths

• February 21 - Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Josephine de Beauharnais, wife of Napoleon I of France
• March 2 - Haswell Rowson, author
• April 19 - George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet
• May 26 - Capel Lofft, writer
• June 21 - Étienne Aignan, translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Académie française (b. 1773)
• August 14 - Hugh Wilson, composer
• September 16 - Louis XVIII of France

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