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1829 CE

August Klingemann's adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres in Braunschweig. The bloodless Wellington–Winchilsea duel takes place at Battersea near London. King's College London is founded by Royal Charter, under the patronage of King George IV and the Prime Minister, The Duke of Wellington.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

  • March 22 – Greece receives autonomy from the Ottoman Empire in the London Protocol, signed by Russia, France and Britain, effectively ending the Greek War of Independence. Greece continues to seek full independence through diplomatic negotiations with the three Great Powers.source
  • April 1 – Vicente Guerrero becomes president of Mexico.source
  • April 13 – The Catholic Relief Act is passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, granting a substantial measure of Catholic emancipation in Britain and Ireland.source
  • June 3 – The Swan River Colony (later to become the cities of Perth and Fremantle) is founded in Western Australia. This secures the western third of the Australian landmass for the British.source
  • August 8 – The Prince de Polignac succeeds the Vicomte de Martignac as Prime Minister of France.source
  • September 14 – The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, ending the Russo-Turkish War.source
  • October 1 – South African College is inaugurated in Cape Town.source

Conflict & Security

  • February 27 – Battle of Tarqui: Troops of Gran Colombia and Peru battle to a draw.source
  • March 21 – The bloodless Wellington–Winchilsea duel takes place at Battersea near Londonsource
  • July 2 – Russo-Turkish War (1828–29): Russian Field-Marshal Hans Karl von Diebitsch launches the Trans-Balkan Offensive, which brings the Russian army within 68 km mi of Istanbul.source
  • October 17 – Kaspar Hauser is found wounded.source

Exploration & Expansion

  • June 5 – captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.source

Religion & Belief

  • March 31 – Pope Pius VIII succeeds Pope Leo XII as the 253rd pope.source
  • April 4 – The Mexican city of Cuautla, Morelos, is founded.source
  • May 15 – Joseph Smith claims to have received the Aaronic Priesthood from John the Baptist.source

Technology & Infrastructure

  • April 21– Popular German conductor Felix Mendelssohn begins his first of 10 visits to Britain, touring the island until November 28. This includes the first London performance of his concert overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, and his trip to Fingal's Cave.source
  • May 6 – The patent for an instrument called the accordion is applied for by Cyrill Demian (officially approved on May 23).source
  • June 19 – Robert Peel establishes the Metropolitan Police Service in London, the first modern police force. The first officers, known by the nickname "bobbies", go on patrol on September 29.source
  • July 4 – George Shillibeer begins operating the first bus service in London.source
  • July 23 – In the United States, William Burt obtains the first patent for a form of typewriter, the typographer.source
  • August 10 – Finsteraarhorn, the highest summit of the Bernese Alps, is first ascended.source
  • October 14 – Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill trials to determine the practicality of steam locomotives to operate the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in England.source
  • October 16 – The first modern hotel in the United States, Tremont House (Boston), opens.source
  • November 30 – The original Welland Canal opens for a trial run, with a ceremony at Port Dalhousie, Upper Canada.source

Culture & Society

  • January 19 – August Klingemann's adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres in Braunschweig.source
  • March 11 – German composer Felix Mendelssohn conducts the first performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion since the latter's death in 1750, in Berlin; the success of this performance sparks a revival of interest in Bach.source
  • June 1 – The Philadelphia Inquirer is founded in the U.S. as The Pennsylvania Inquirer.source
  • June 10 – The Oxford University Boat Club wins the first inter-university Boat Race, rowed at Henley-on-Thames.source
  • August 3 – Gioacchino Rossini's opera William Tell (Guillaume Tell) is first performed, in Paris.source
  • August 12 – Mrs. Helen Dance, wife of the captain of the ship Sulphur, cuts down a tree to mark the founding day of the town of Perth, Western Australia.source
  • August 14 – King's College London is founded by Royal Charter, under the patronage of King George IV and the Prime Minister, The Duke of Wellington.source
  • September 28 – African-American abolitionist David Walker publishes his Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, in Boston, Massachusetts.source
  • November 5 – The Chalmers University of Technology is founded in Gothenburg, Sweden.source
  • November 5 – Technical University of Denmark (DTU) opens.source
  • December 4 – In India, Lord William Bentinck, British Governor General of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal, pushes through a regulation declaring that all who abet sati (suttee) (the self-immolation of a widow on her husband's funeral pyre) in parts of British India are guilty of culpable homicide. This follows long campaigning by Bengali reformer Ram Mohan Roy.source

Births

  • February 2 – William Stanley, British inventor, engineer (d. 1909)source
  • March 2 – Carl Schurz, German revolutionary, American statesman (d. 1906)source
  • March 16 – George M. Robeson, American politician (d. 1897)source
  • June 4 – Allan Octavian Hume, British civil servant (d. 1912)source
  • June 5 – George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen, Scottish-Canadian businessman, philanthropist (d. 1921)source
  • June 8 – Sir John Everett Millais, British Pre-Raphaelite painter (d. 1896)source
  • June 16 – Geronimo, indigenous American (Apache) leader (d. 1909)source
  • July 14 – Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1896)source
  • July 26 – Auguste Beernaert, Belgian statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1912)source
  • October 1 – Sidney Hill, English philanthropist (d. 1908)source
  • October 5 – Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (d. 1886)source
  • November 9 – Sir Peter Lumsden, British general in the Indian army (d. 1918)source
  • November 10 – Newton Knight, American farmer, soldier and Southern Unionist in Mississippi and Civil War guerrilla (d. 1922)source
  • November 28 – Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist, composer (d. 1894)source

Deaths

  • January 12 – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, German poet, philosopher, and philologist (b. 1772)source
  • February 11 – Alexander Griboyedov, Russian playwright, diplomat (b. 1795)source
  • March 5 – John Adams, last surviving Bounty mutineer (b. 1767)source
  • May 10 – Thomas Young, English physician, linguist (b. 1773)source
  • May 17 – John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745)source
  • June 6 – Shanawdithit, last known pure-blooded member of the Beothuk people (b. c. 1801)source
  • June 27 – James Smithson, British mineralogist, chemist, whose fortune eventually went to the United States of America, and was used to initially fund the Smithsonian Institution (b. 1764)source
  • July 11 – Hannah Mather Crocker, American essayist, advocate of women's rights in America (b. 1752)source
  • September 28 – David Gillespie, American surveyor and politician (b. 1774)source
  • October 29 – Maria Anna Mozart ("Nannerl"), Austrian musician and composer, sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1751)source
  • November 14 – Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French chemist, discoverer of beryllium and chromium (b. 1763)source
  • November 26 – Bushrod Washington, American Supreme Court justice (b. 1762)source
  • December 12 – John Lansing Jr., American statesman (disappeared) (b. 1754)source
  • December 28 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (b. 1744)source