1824
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'''1824''' was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
See also
1824 in the United States
Events
January 22 - Ashanti people|Ashanti crush United Kingdom|British forces in the Gold Coast (British colony)|Gold Coast (See also History_of_Ghana#British_Dominance|Wars between Britain and Ashanti in Ghana and Ashanti Confederacy).
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 S. 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, Queensland|Moreton Bay Penal Settlement at what is now Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia, after leaving Sydney.
September 16 Charles X of France|Charles X succeeds Louis XVIII of France|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-November 16|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 5- first technological university in the English-speaking world founded: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
December 1 - U.S. presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total U.S. Electoral College|electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding 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.
Ludwig von Beethoven|Beethoven's 9th symphony debuts
Cimetière du Montparnasse established
The Netherlands|Dutch sign the Masang Agreement temporarily ending hostilities in the Padri War
Ongoing events
First Burmese War (1823–1826)
Births
January 8 - Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889)
January 21 - Thomas J. Jackson|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 12 - Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (d. 1887)
March 19 - William Allingham, Irish author (d. 1889)
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 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)
December 10 - George MacDonald, English writer (d. 1905)
December 14 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d. 1898)
Gideon T. Stewart, American temperance movement leader (d. 1907)
Deaths
January 21 - Jean Baptiste Drouet, French revolutionary (b. 1765)
January 26 - Théodore Géricault, French painter (b. 1791)
February 5 - Marie Duplessis, French courtesan (tuberculosis)
February 21 - Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Josephine de Beauharnais (b. 1781)
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)
September 16 - Louis XVIII of France (b. 1755)
October 30 - Charles Maturin|Charles Robert Maturin, Irish writer (b. 1773)
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