1824

Decades: 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s - 1820s - 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s

Years: 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 - 1824 - 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829

Events

• January 22 - Ashantis crush British forces in the Gold Coast
• Cimetière du Montparnasse established
• The Dutch sign the Masang Agreement temporarily ending hostilities in the Padri War
• 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 16 Charles X succeeds Louis XVIII as King of France
• November - Andrew Jackson receives more popular votes than John Quincy Adams in the U.S. presidential election
• 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).
• Simon Bolivar 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 Mitylene.

Ongoing events

• First Burmese War (1823-1826)

Births

• January 8 - Wilkie Collins, novelist (d. 1889)
• January 21 - Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate Army general (d. 1863)
• March 2 - Bedrich Smetana, composer
• May 23 - Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general (d. 1881)
• September 4 - Anton Bruckner, composer
• October 5 - Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and historian
• December 14 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter
• George MacDonald, writer (d. 1905)

Deaths

• February 21 - Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Napoleon's wife, Josephine
• April 19 - George Gordon Byron, later 6th Baron Byron, poet
• May 26 - Capel Lofft, writer
• September 16 - Louis XVIII of France

Heads of states

• Ottoman Empire - Mahmud II Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808-1839)
• Prussia - Frederick William III King of Prussia (1797-1840)
• Russia - Alexander I Tsar of Russia (1801-1825)

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