1834

Events of 1834

January 1 - Zollverein: Customs charges are abolished 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 27 - Andrew Jackson is censured by the Congress of the United States.
April 14 - The Whig Party is officially named by United States Senator Henry Clay.
June 7 - Greek independence general Theodoros Kolokotronis is sentenced to death for treason for resisting the rule of Otto of Greece (he is released next year).
July 15 - The Spanish Inquisition, which began in the 15th century, is suppressed by royal decree.
July 16 - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne succeeds Earl Grey as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
July 24 - The Liberal Wars end in Portugal.
August 1 - Slavery is abolished in the British Empire (see Slavery Abolition Act).
August 11/12 - Ursuline Convent Riots: A convent of Ursuline nuns is burned near Boston, MA.
August 15 - The South Australia Act allows for the creation of a colony there.
October 16 - The Palace of Westminster is destroyed by fire.
December 10 - Sir Robert Peel succeeds Lord Melbourne as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
December 11 - The Sixth Xhosa War is characterized by severe clashes between white settlers and Bantu peoples in Cape Colony; Dutch speaking settlers colonize the area north of Orange River.

A pro-republic uprising fails in Piedmont; one of the activists is Giuseppe Garibaldi.
The British East India Company monopoly on China trade ends.
Robert Owen organizes the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union.
Athens becomes Greece's capital city.

July 10 - James McNeill Whistler, American painter and etcher (d. 1903)
July 19 - Edgar Degas, French painter (d. 1917)
August 4 - John Venn, British mathematician (d. 1923)
August 22 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics pioneer (d. 1906)
August 31 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (d. 1886)
September 9 - Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (d. 1903)
November 19 - Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (d. 1924)
October 8 - Walter Kittredge, American composer (d. 1905)
December 16 - Léon Walras, French economist (d. 1910)

July 12 - David Douglas, Scottish botanist (b. 1799)
July 14 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution (b. 1763)
July 19 - Károly Hadaly, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1743)
July 25 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English writer (b. 1772)
August 1 - Robert Morrison, Scottish Protestant missionary to China (b. 1782)
August 7 - Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor (b. 1752)
August 17 - Husein Gradaščević, Bosnian rebel leader (b. 1802)
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 - Emperor Pedro I of Brazil (b. 1798)
October 8 - François-Adrien Boïeldieu, French composer (b. 1775)
October 11 - William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier, British Navy officer, politician and diplomat (b. 1786)
December 23 - Thomas Malthus, English economist and political philosopher (b. 1766)
December 27 - Charles Lamb, English essayist (b. 1775)