1824

Events of 1824

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 in Queensland, Australia, after leaving Sydney.
September 16 - Charles X succeeds Louis XVIII as King of France.
October 10 - The Edinburgh Town Council makes a decision to found the Edinburgh Municipal Fire Brigade, the first fire brigade in Britain.
November 5 - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (the first technological university in the English-speaking world) is founded in Troy, New York.
November 7 - In the worst flood to date in Saint Petersburg, water rises 421 cm above normal and 200 lose their lives.
November 30 - The first sod is turned in Ontario, for the first of four Welland Canals (the canal opens for a trial run exactly 5 years later to the day).
December 3 - U.S. presidential election, 1824: None of the four candidates for U.S. President gain a majority of the electoral votes, so the election is thrown into the U.S. House of Representatives.
December 9 - Battle of Ayacucho: Peruvian forces defeat the Spanish.
December 24 - The Chi Phi (ΧΦ) Fraternity is founded at Princeton University.

The British take Rangoon, Burma.
The Egyptians capture Crete.
The Cimetière du Montparnasse is established in Paris, France.
The Dutch sign the Masang Agreement, temporarily ending hostilities in the Padri War.
The name Australia, recommended by Matthew Flinders in 1804, is finally adopted as the official name of the country once known as New Holland.
The Panoramagram is developed, creating the first volumetric display.

January 8 - Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889)
January 15 - Marie Duplessis, French courtesan
January 21 - Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, American Confederate general (d. 1863)
February 7 - William Huggins, British astronomer (d. 1910)
February 14 - Winfield Scott Hancock, American Civil War Union general (d. 1886)
February 16 - Peter Kozler, Slovenian cartographer and geographer (d. 1879)
March 2 - Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (d. 1885)
March 9 - Amasa Leland Stanford, Governor of California (d. 1893)
March 12 - Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (d. 1887)
March 19 - William Allingham, Irish author (d. 1889)
March 25 - Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (d. 1900)
May 6 - Tokugawa Iesada, Japanese shogun (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 26 - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist and engineer (d. 1907)
June 28 - Paul Broca, French anthropologist (d. 1880)
July 12 - Eugène Boudin, French painter (d. 1898)