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Centuries:	18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades:	1800s  1810s  1820s  - 1830s -  1840s  1850s  1860s
Years:	1831 1832 1833 - 1834 - 1835 1836 1837

1834 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Sports - Rail Transport

Countries:         Australia - Canada -

Ireland - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. - UK

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

Year 1834 (MDCCCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1834 1.1 January - March 1.2 April - June 1.3 July - September 1.4 October - December 1.5 Undated 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 1 - Abolition of customs charges at borders within Germany.
• January 3 - The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City.
• March 6 - York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.

• June 7 - Greek independence general Theodoros Kolokotronis is sentenced to death for treason for resisting the rule of Otto of Greece (he is released next year).

• July 16 - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne succeeds Earl Grey as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• July 24 - End of the Liberal Wars in Portugal.
• August 1 - Slavery abolished in the British Empire (see Slavery Abolition Act).
• August 15 - South Australia Act allows for the creation of a colony there.

• October 16 - Palace of Westminster destroyed by fire
• December 10 - Sir Robert Peel succeeds Lord Melbourne as Prime Minister of the UK

• Failed pro-republic uprising in Piedmont – one of the activists is Giuseppe Garibaldi.
• Spanish Inquisition, which began in the 13th century, was suppressed.
• 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.

1834 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1834 MDCCCXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2587
Armenian calendar	1283 ԹՎ ՌՄՁԳ
Bahá'í calendar	-10 – -9
Buddhist calendar	2378
Chinese calendar	4470/4530-11-22 (癸巳年十一月廿二日) — to — 4471/4531-12-2 (甲午年十二月初二日)
Ethiopian calendar	1826 – 1827
Hebrew calendar	5594 – 5595
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1889 – 1890
- Shaka Samvat	1756 – 1757
- Kali Yuga	4935 – 4936
Holocene calendar	11834
Iranian calendar	1212 – 1213
Islamic calendar	1249 – 1250
Japanese calendar	Tenpō 5 (天保5年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2494 (皇紀2494年)
- Jōmon Era	11834
Julian calendar	1879
Korean calendar	4167
Thai solar calendar	2377
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• January 7 - Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (d. 1874)
• January 13 - John Mason Cook, after whom JMC Air is named (d. ?)
• February 8 - Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (d. 1907)
• February 9 - Felix Dahn, German author (d. 1912)
• February 16 - Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist and philosopher (d. 1919)
• February 19 - Charles Davis Lucas, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1914)
• March 16 - James Hector, Scottish geologist (d. 1907)
• March 17 - Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and inventor (d. 1900)
• March 20 - Charles W. Eliot, American President of Harvard University (d. 1926)
• March 23 - Julius Reubke, German composer (d. 1858).
• March 24 - William Morris, English pet and artist (d. 1896)
• March 24 - John Wesley Powell, American explorer (d. 1902)
• April 1 - Big Jim Fisk, American entrepreneur (d. 1872)
• April 2 - Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (d. 1904)
• May 23 - Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish sculptor (d. 1890)
• June 19 - Charles Spurgeon, English Baptist preacher (d. 1892)

• July 10 - James McNeill Whistler, American painter and etcher (d. 1903)
• July 19 - Edgar Degas, French painter (d. 1917)
• August 4 - John Venn, British mathematician (d. 1923)
• August 22 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics pioneer (d. 1906)
• August 31 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (d. 1886)
• September 9 - Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (d. 1903)
• November 19 - Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (d. 1924)
• October 8 - Walter Kittredge, American composer (d. 1905)
• December 16 - Léon Walras, French economist (d. 1910)

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See also Category: 1834 births.

• January 12 - William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
• January 17 - Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (b. 1762)
• February 2 - Lorenzo Dow, American minister (b. 1777)
• February 12 - Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologian (b. 1768)
• March 2 - José Cecilo del Valle, first President of Central America (b. 1780)
• April 5 - Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1757)
• April 10 - John 'Merino' MacArthur, Australian farmer (b. 1767)
• April 11 - John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, English philanthropist and patron of the arts and sciences (b. 1757)
• May 20 - Marquis de la Fayette, French nobleman and soldier (b. 1757)

• July 12 - David Douglas, Scottish botanist (b. 1799)
• July 14 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution (b. 1763)
• July 19 - Károly Hadaly, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1743)
• July 25 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English writer (b. 1772)
• August 1 - Robert Morrison, Scottish Protestant missionary to China (b. 1782)
• August 7 - Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor (b. 1752)
• August 17 - Husein Gradaščević, Bosnian rebel leader (b. 1802)
• September 2 - Thomas Telford, Scottish engineer (b. 1757)
• September 9 - James Weddell, Antarctic explorer (b. 1787)
• September 16 - William Blackwood, English writer (b. 1776)
• September 24 - Pedro I of Brazil (b. 1798)
• October 8 - François-Adrien Boïeldieu, French composer (b. 1775)
• October 11 - William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier, British Navy officer, politician and diplomat (b. 1786)
• December 23 - Thomas Malthus, English economist and political philosopher (b. 1766)
• December 27 - Charles Lamb, English essayist (b. 1775)
• December 31 - João Batista Gonçalves Campos, Intelectual leader of the Cabanagem revolutionary event, in the vice-Kingdom of Grao Para (b. 1782)

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See also Category: 1834 deaths.