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This page is about the year 1824. For the board game, see 1824.

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Year 1824 (MDCCCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1824 1.1 January - March 1.2 April - June 1.3 July - September 1.4 October - December 1.5 Undated 1.6 Ongoing events 2 Births 2.1 January - June 2.2 July - December 2.3 Unknown dates 3 Deaths 3.1 January - June 3.2 July - December 3.3 Unknown dates

• January 8 - After much controversy, Michael Faraday is finally elected as a member of the Royal Society with only one vote against him.
• January 22 - Ashanti crush British forces in the Gold Coast (See also Wars between Britain and Ashanti in Ghana and Ashanti Confederacy).
• March 11 - The United States War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Ely S. Parker of the Seneca tribe becomes its first director.
• March 17 - Signing of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824.

• May 7 - One of Beethoven's greatest masterpieces, Symphony No. 9, premieres in Vienna.

• September 13 - With his crew and 29 convicts aboard the Amity, John Oxley arrives at and founds the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement at what is now Redcliffe in Queensland, Australia, after leaving Sydney.
• September 16 - Charles X succeeds Louis XVIII as King of France.

• October 10 - Edinburgh Town Council makes a decision to found the Edinburgh Municipal Fire Brigade, the first fire brigade in Britain.
• November 5 - first technological university in the English-speaking world founded: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
• November 7 - Worst flood in Saint Petersburg: water rose 421 cm above normal and 200 lost their lives.
• November 15- 16 - A huge fire breaks out on Old Assembly Close in Edinburgh. It destroys two tenements and Tron Kirk church. 11 residents and 2 firemen die, 400 people are left homeless.
• December 9 - At the Battle of Ayacucho, Peruvian forces defeat Spanish.
• December 24 - The Chi Phi (ΧΦ) Fraternity was founded at Princeton University.

• Simón Bolívar proclaimed Emperor of Peru.
• The British take Rangoon, Burma.
• Frontier treaty between United States and Russia is signed.
• Egyptians capture Crete.
• Turks seize island of Ipsara from Greeks but are defeated at Mytilene.
• What is now the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in Britain was founded in earnest.
• Cimetière du Montparnasse established
• The Dutch sign the Masang Agreement temporarily ending hostilities in the Padri War
• The name Australia, recommended by Matthew Flinders in 1804, is finally adopted as the official name of the country once known as New Holland.

• First Burmese War (1823–1826)

1824 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1824 MDCCCXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2577
Armenian calendar	1273 ԹՎ ՌՄՀԳ
Bahá'í calendar	-20 – -19
Buddhist calendar	2368
Chinese calendar	4460/4520-12-1 (癸未年十二月初一日) — to — 4461/4521-11-12 (甲申年十一月十二日)
Ethiopian calendar	1816 – 1817
Hebrew calendar	5584 – 5585
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1879 – 1880
- Shaka Samvat	1746 – 1747
- Kali Yuga	4925 – 4926
Holocene calendar	11824
Iranian calendar	1202 – 1203
Islamic calendar	1239 – 1240
Japanese calendar	Bunsei 7 (文政7年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2484 (皇紀2484年)
- Jōmon Era	11824
Julian calendar	1869
Korean calendar	4157
Thai solar calendar	2367
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• January 8 - Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889)
• January 15 - Marie Duplessis, French courtesan
• January 21 - Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, American Confederate general (d. 1863)
• February 7 - William Huggins, British astronomer (d. 1910)
• February 16 - Peter Kozler, Slovenian cartographer and geographer (d. 1879)
• March 2 - Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (d. 1885)
• March 9 - Amasa Leland Stanford, Governor of California (d. 1893)
• March 12 - Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (d. 1887)
• March 19 - William Allingham, Irish author (d. 1889)
• May 6 - Tokugawa Iesada, Japanese shogun (d. 1858)
• May 16 - Levi P. Morton, 22nd Vice President of the United States (d. 1920)
• May 23 - Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general (d. 1881)
• June 26 - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist and engineer (d. 1907)
• June 28 - Paul Broca, French anthropologist (d. 1880)
• July 12 - Eugène Boudin, French painter (d. 1898)

• July 27 - Alexandre Dumas, fils, French writer (d. 1895)
• September 4 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (d. 1896)
• October 5 - Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and historian (d. 1908)
• December 10 - George MacDonald, English writer (d. 1905)
• December 14 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d. 1898)

• Thomas Stent, Architect
• Gideon T. Stewart, American temperance movement leader (d. 1907)
• Juan Valera y Alcala Galiano, Spanish author (d. 1905)

See also Category: 1824 births.

• January 21 - Jean Baptiste Drouet, French revolutionary (b. 1765)
• January 26 - Théodore Géricault, French painter (b. 1791)
• February 21 - Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Josephine de Beauharnais (b. 1781)
• April 19 - George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (b. 1788)
• May 26 - Capel Lofft, English writer (b. 1751)
• June 16 - Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (b. 1739)
• June 18 - Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1769)
• June 21 - Étienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773)

• September 16 - Louis XVIII of France (b. 1755)
• October 30 - Charles Robert Maturin, Irish writer (b. 1773)

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See also Category: 1824 deaths.