1834

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

1834 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).

Events

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.
March 18 - The Tolpuddle Martyrs, six Dorset farm labourers, are sentenced to be transported to a penal colony for forming a trade union
March 28 - The United States Senate censures President Andrew Jackson for his actions in defunding the Second Bank of the United States
June 14 - Isaac Fischer, Jr. patents sandpaper
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
August 14 - Poor Law Amendment Act states that no able-bodied British man can receive assistance unless he enters a workhouse
August 15 - South Australia Act allows for the creation of an colony there
October 16 - Much of the Palace of Westminster is destroyed by fire
November 11 - The rare 1804 silver dollar coin is struck by the United States Mint
November 24 - George Sand begins her journal to Alfred de Musset.
December 10 - Sir Robert Peel succeeds Lord Melbourne as Prime Minister of the U.K.
Abolition of slavery comes into effect in British Empire
Failed pro-republic uprising in Piedmont – one of the activists is Giuseppe Garibaldi
New Poor Law in England
Last hanging in chains upon a gibbet in England - James Cook for murder
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
The Hansom cab is patented
Louis Braille perfects his Braille system
The Exchequer was abolished as a revenue collecting department of the British government.

Births

January 7 - Johann Philipp Reis, physicist, inventor (d. 1874)
February 7 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist and inventor of the Periodic table of the chemical elements (d. 1907)
February 9 - Felix Dahn, author (d. 1912)
February 16 - Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist and philosopher (d. 1919)
March 16 - James Hector, Scottish geologist (d. 1907)
March 17 - Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and inventor (d. 1900)
March 20 - Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University (d. 1926)
March 23 - Julius Reubke, composer (d. 1858).
March 24 - William Morris, English poet and artist (d. 1896)
March 24 - John Wesley Powell, American explorer, environmentalist (d. 1902)
April 1 - James Fisk, entrepreneur (d. 1872)
April 2 - Frédéric Bartholdi, 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 22 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist and aeronautics pioneer (d. 1906)
August 31 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (d. 1886)
October 8 - Walter Kittredge, American musician and composer during the Civil War. (d. 1905)

Deaths

January 17 - Giovanni Aldini, 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, 1st President of Central America (b. 1780)
April 10 - John 'Merino' MacArthur, Australian farmer (b. 1767)
April 11 - John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, 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, botanist (b. 1799)
July 14 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution (b. 1763)
July 25 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English writer (b. 1772)
August 7 - Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor (b. 1752)
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 Boieldieu, French composer (b. 1775)
October 11 - William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier, British Navy officer, politician and diplomat (b. 1786)
December 23 - Thomas Malthus, economist and political philosopher (b. 1766)
December 27 - Charles Lamb, English essayist (b. 1775)