1829
1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
Events
January 4 - Sir John Colborne , Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada founds Upper Canada College , as a feeder school to the newly formed University of Toronto and a home for the colony's upper class.
January 8 - Hanging of body-selling murderer William Burke - his associate William Hare, who testified against him, is released
January 19 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 's Faust March 4 - Andrew Jackson succeeds John Quincy Adams as the President of the United States of America .
March 22 - Greece receives autonomy from the Ottoman Empire . This effectively ends the Greek War of Independence . Greece continues to seek full independence through diplomatic negotiations with the Empire as well as with Russia , France and Britain .
May 2 - After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of the HMS Challenger , declared the Swan River Colony in Australia .
June 5 - HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba .
June 1 - Captain James Stirling founds the Swan River Colony in Western Australia .
June 10 - University of Oxford win the first Boat Race .
July 23 - In the United States , William Burt patents the first typewriter .
August 8 - The Prince de Polignac succeeds the Vicomte de Martignac as Prime Minister of France .
October 17 - Hooded man tries to assassinate Kaspar Hauser
September 16 - Treaty of Adrianople ends the Russo-Turkish War. Russia gains territory at the mouth of the Danube and along the eastern coast of the Black Sea .
October - George Stephenson 's steam locomotive, The Rocket , wins The Rainhill Trials held near Liverpool .
December 4 - In the face of fierce opposition, British Lord William Bentinck carries a regulation declaring that all who abetted suttee in India were guilty of culpable homicide .
December 13 - Last British hanging for forgery – Thomas Maynard
Births
January 3 - Konrad Duden , philologist (d. 1911 )
January 21 - King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway
February 2 - Alfred Brehm , zoologist (d. 1884 )
February 11 - William Anderson Pile American general
February 26 - Levi Strauss , clothing designer (d. 1902 )
March 2 - Carl Schurz , German revolutionary and American statesman, (d. 1906 )
March 16 - Sully Prudhomme , French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature
May 5 - Shusaku Honinbo , Go player (d, 1862 )
May 8 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk , American composer and pianist
September 7 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz , chemist, discoverer of the benzene ring
July 14 - Edward White Benson , Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1896 )
November 28 - Anton Rubinstein , Russian pianist and composer
Deaths
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