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Events

• January 22 - Ashantis crush British forces in the Gold Coast
• 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 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, 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 15-16 - 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 homeless
• November - Andrew Jackson receives more popular votes than John Quincy Adams in the U.S. presidential election.
• November 5- Stephen Van Rensselaer establishes the Rensselaer School, which is today known as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
• 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).
• December 9 - At the Battle of Ayacucho, Peruvian forces defeat Spanish.

• 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 Mytilene.
• Beethoven's 9th symphony debuts
• Cimetière du Montparnasse established
• The Dutch sign the Masang Agreement temporarily ending hostilities in the Padri War

January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Ashanti may refer to: The Ashanti people, an ethnic group Ashanti, a region of Ghana Ashanti Shaquoya Douglas, a singer HMS Ashanti, two Royal Navy warships Ashanti Gold, a chocolate based liqueur by Peter Heering. ... Flag of Gold Coast Gold Coast was a British colony on the Gulf of Guinea in west Africa. ... March 17 is the 76th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (77th in Leap years). ... The Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824, also known as the Treaty of London (one of several), was a treaty signed between the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in London on March 17, 1824. ... 11 March is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). ... The United States Department of War was the military department of the United States governments executive branch from 1789 until 1949, when it became part of the United States Department of Defense. ... The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) responsibility is the administration and management of 55. ... Ely Samuel Parker (1828 - August 31, 1895), Hasanoanda, was an Iroquois of the Seneca tribe born at Indian Falls, New York (then part of the Tonawanda Reservation). ... The Seneca are a Native American people, one of the Six Nations of the Iroquois League. ... September 13 is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years). ... John Oxley John Oxley (1783 - May 26, 1828) was an early Australian explorer. ... Moreton Bay is a large bay on the eastern coast of Australia 19km from Brisbane, Queensland. ... Redcliffe is a peninsula on the western end of Moreton Bay in the south-east Great Sandy Region of Queensland, Australia. ... Sydney Harbour looking south from the vicinity of the Sydney Harbour Bridge towards the CBD skyline; the Opera House is visible in the background on the left. ... September 16 is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years). ... Charles X, King of France and of Navarre (October 9, 1757 – November 6, 1836) was born at the Palace of Versailles. ... Louis XVIII (November 17, 1755 - September 16, 1824) was King of France and Navarre from 1814 (although he declared that he considered his reign to have begun in 1795) until his death in 1824, with a brief break in 1815 due to Napoleons return in the Hundred Days. ... October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in Leap years). ... Edinburghs location in Scotland Edinburgh viewed from Arthurs Seat. ... Firefighter with an axe A firefighter, sometimes still called a fireman though women have increasingly joined firefighting units, is a person who is trained and equipped to put out fires, rescue people and in some areas provide emergency medical services. ... November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 46 days remaining. ... November 16 is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 45 days remaining. ... Edinburghs location in Scotland Edinburgh viewed from Arthurs Seat. ... Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767–June 8, 1845), one of the founders of the Democratic Party, was the seventh President of the United States, serving from 1829 to 1837. ... Bold text John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was the sixth (1825-1829) President of the United States. ... Presidential electoral votes by state. ... November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 56 days remaining. ... Stephen Van Rensselaer III (November 1, 1764–January 26, 1839) was an American statesman, soldier, and land-owner, the heir to one of the greatest estates in the New York region at the time. ... Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI, is a large university in Troy, New York, near Albany, founded in 1824 by Stephen Van Rensselaer. ... December 1 is the 335th (in leap years the 336th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Presidential electoral votes by state. ... The United States Electoral College is the electoral college which chooses the President and Vice President of the United States at the conclusion of each Presidential election. ... Seal of the House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the Congress of the United States, the other being the Senate. ... The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution altered Article II relating to presidential elections. ... December 9 is the 343rd day (344th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Battle of Ayacucho took place during the final phase of Perus War of Independence. ... Early life Bolívar was born in Caracas, in modern-day Venezuela, into an aristocratic family, educated by different tutors after his parents died. ... An emperor is a (male) monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. ... Yangôn, formerly Rangoon, population 4,504,000 (2001), is the capital of Myanmar. ... Greece and Crete Crete, sometimes spelled Krete (Greek Κρήτη / Kriti; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea. ... This city is not ot be confused with a village in the island of Samos named Mytilinii Mytilene (Μυτιλήνη in Greek) is the capital city of Lesbos, a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. ... Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized December 17, 1770 – March 26, 1827) was a German composer of Classical music, the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. ... The Cimetière du Montparnasse is a famous cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, France. ... The Padri War also called Minangkabau War is the name given to the skirmishes fought by Dutch troops from 1821 to 1837 in West Sumatra, Indonesia. ...

Ongoing events

• First Burmese War (1823-1826)

The First Anglo-Burmese War lasted from 1823 to 1826. ... 1823 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1826 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

Births

• January 8 - Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889)
• 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 - Bedrich Smetana, Czech composer (d. 1885)
• March 9 - Amasa Leland Stanford, Governor of California (d. 1893)
• March 10 - Freeman Towns, American Entrepreneur (d. 1861)
• March 12 - Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (d. 1887)
• March 19 - William Allingham, Irish author (d. 1889)
• May 6 - Tokugawa Iesada, 13th Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (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 22 - Frederic Louis Ritter, composer
• June 26 - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist and engineer (d. 1907)
• June 28 - Paul Pierre 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)
• October 18 - Frantisek Pivoda, composer
• December 10 - George MacDonald, English writer (d. 1905)
• December 14 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d. 1898)

January 8 is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Wilkie Collins William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. ... 1889 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... January 21 is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... For the 1960s country music artist, see Stonewall Jackson (musician); for the submarine, see USS Stonewall Jackson (SSBN-634). ... 1863 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... William Huggins Sir William Huggins, OM , FRS (February 7, 1824 – May 12, 1910) was a British astronomer. ... 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Peter Kozler (February 16, 1824 - April 16, 1879) was a Slovene lawyer, geographer, cartographer, politician and manufacturer, born in Koče, south of Kočevje, Austria-Hungary (now Slovenia). ... 1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... March 2 is the 61st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (62nd in leap years). ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... 1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... March 9 is the 68th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (69th in Leap years). ... Amasa Leland Stanford (March 9, 1824–June 21, 1893) was an American business tycoon, politician and founder of Stanford University. ... 1893 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... March 10 is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (70th in Leap years). ... American entrepreneur (ne. ... 1861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. ... March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (72nd in Leap years). ... Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (March 12, 1824 – October 17, 1887), a German physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects. ... 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... March 19 is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (79th in leap years). ... An 1880 portrait of William Allingham by his wife Helen William Allingham (March 19, 1824 or 1828 - November 18, 1889) was an Irish man of letters and poet. ... 1889 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... May 6 is the 126th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (127th in leap years). ... Tokugawa Iesada (徳川 家定 Tokugawa Iesada, 1824–1858) was the 13th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan who held office for only 5 years, from 1853 to 1858. ... The Tokugawa shogunate or Tokugawa bakufu (徳川幕府) (also known as the Edo bakufu) was a feudal military dictatorship of Japan established in 1603 by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family until 1868. ... 1858 is a common year starting on Friday. ... May 16 is the 136th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (137th in leap years). ... Levi Parsons Morton. ... The Vice President of the United States is the second-highest executive official of the United States government, the person who is, in the words of Adlai Stevenson, a heartbeat from the presidency. ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... May 23 is the 143rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (144th in leap years). ... Portrait of Ambrose Burnside by Mathew Brady, ca. ... 1881 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 192 days remaining. ... June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 188 days remaining. ... The Right Honourable William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, GCVO, OM, PC, PRS (26 June 1824–17 December 1907) was a Scottish-Irish mathematical physicist and engineer, an outstanding leader in the physical sciences of the 19th century. ... 1907 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... (Some entries on this page have been duplicated on August 1. ... Paul Pierre Broca (June 28, 1824 - July 9, 1880) was a French physician, anatomist and anthropologist. ... 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... July 12 is the 193rd day (194th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 172 days remaining. ... Rivage de Portrieux, Cotes-du-Nord by Eugène Boudin. ... 1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... July 27 is the 208th day (209th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 157 days remaining. ... Alexandre Dumas, fils (July 27, 1824 – November 27, 1895) was the son of Alexandre Dumas, père, who followed in his fathers footsteps becoming a celebrated author and playwright. ... 1895 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... September 4 is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years). ... Anton Bruckner Anton Bruckner (September 4, 1824 – October 11, 1896) was an Austrian composer of the Romantic era. ... 1896 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in Leap years). ... Henry Chadwick (October 5, 1824, Exeter, England - April 20, 1908, Brooklyn, New York) was a sportswriter, baseball statistician and historian. ... 1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in Leap years). ... December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... George MacDonald (December 10, 1824 – September 18, 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. ... 1905 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, (December 14, 1824 - October 24, 1898) was a French painter. ... 1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

Deaths

• January 21 - Jean Baptiste Drouet, French revolutionary (b. 1765)
• January 26 - Théodore Géricault, French painter (b. 1791)
• February 5 - Marie Duplessis, famous French courtesan, dies of tuberculosis in Paris - her funeral is lavish
• February 21 - Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Josephine de Beauharnais (b. 1781)
• March 2 - Haswell Rowson, author
• April 19 - George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (b. 1788)
• May 26 - Capel Lofft, English writer (b. 1751)
• June 18 - Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1769)
• June 21 - Étienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773)
• August 14 - Hugh Wilson, composer
• September 16 - Louis XVIII of France (b. 1755)
• October 30 - Charles Robert Maturin - Irish playwright and novelist (b. 1773)