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next turn year 1824

events

January–March[edit] January 8 – After much controversy, Michael Faraday is finally elected as a member of the Royal Society, with only one vote against him. January 22 – The Ashanti crush British forces in the Gold Coast, killing the British governor Sir Charles MacCarthy (see also Wars between Britain and Ashanti in Ghana and Ashanti Confederacy). January 24 – The first issue of the radical quarterly founded by Jeremy Bentham, The Westminster Review, is published in London. February 10 – Simón Bolívar is proclaimed dictator of Peru. February 21 – The Chumash Revolt of 1824 begins against the Spanish presence in California. March 5 – The First Anglo-Burmese War begins. March 7 – The Florida State Capitol moves from St. Augustine to Tallahassee. March 11 – The United States War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs. March 17 – The Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 is signed. March 29 – In Cairo, 4,000 people are killed in a fire, including people killed by the explosion of gunpowder housed at the palace of Egypt's Ottoman Governor Mehmet Ali.[1] April–June[edit] April 9 – The first permanent settlers arrive to construct the new city of Tallahassee, Florida, selected to be the capital of the Florida Territory newly acquired from the Kingdom of Spain; the area was selected because it is roughly equidistant from the territory's main cities, Pensacola and St. Augustine.[2] April 19 – Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron), the British poet, dies at the age of 36 in the Greek city of Missolonghi, where he had taken ill while making plans to liberate the Greeks from Ottoman rule, "not in combat, but of a fever caught in the unhealthy conditions at Missolonghi... exacerbated, it is generally agreed, by the over-zealous actions of his doctors, who bled him excessively." [3] May 7 – Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (the "Choral") premieres at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna. The deaf composer has to be turned around on the stage, to witness the enthusiastic audience reaction. May 24 – First Anglo-Burmese War: The British take Rangoon, Burma. June 16 – The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is established in Great Britain. July–September[edit] July 2 – The Confederation of the Equator begins in Pernambuco, Brazil: Wealthy landowners against the government of Emperor Pedro I initiate a secessionist movement for the independence of Pernambuco. July 8 – Queen Kamāmalu of Hawaii dies of measles, while accompanying her husband during a visit to the United Kingdom. July 10 – Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette and a beloved hero of the American Revolution, departs from the port of Le Havre in France on the ship HMS Cadmus for a triumphant return to the United States; he arrives in New York on August 15.[4] July 13 – King Kamehameha II of Hawaii dies of measles, during a visit to the United Kingdom, before he can meet with King George IV.[5] Because of the slow communications of the era, news of the King's death doesn't reach Hawaii until the following March; his funeral will take place on May 11, 1825. He was succeeded by his brother Kamehameha III. July 19 – Don Agustín de Iturbide, who had formerly been President of Mexico and then proclaimed himself Emperor Agustin the First, until being overthrown on March 19, 1823, is executed by a firing squad in the city of Padilla, five days after returning from exile in England.[6][7] August 4 – The Battle of Kos is fought between Turkish and Greek forces. August 6 – Peruvian War of Independence – Battle of Junín: Pro-independence forces defeat the Spanish, in the highlands of the Junín Region. August 16 – Lafayette visits the United States, departing on September 7, 1825. 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 his brother Louis XVIII, as King of France. October–December[edit] October 4 – The First Constitution of Mexico is enacted, declaring the country to be a federal republic. October 10 – The Edinburgh Town Council founds the Edinburgh Municipal Fire Brigade, the first fire brigade in Britain, under the leadership of James Braidwood. October 21 – Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement. November 5 – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the first technological university in the English-speaking world, is founded in Troy, New York. November 19 [O.S. November 7] – In the worst flood to date in Saint Petersburg, water rises 421 centimetres (166 in) 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 five 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 23 – Chief Pushmataha of the Choctaw Nation dies in Washington. December 24 – The First American fraternity, Chi Phi (ΧΦ), is founded at Princeton University. December 28 – The Bathurst War comes to an end, with the defeat of the Wiradjuri. Date unknown[edit] The Egyptians capture Crete. The Montparnasse Cemetery 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 invented as the first stereoscopic viewer. The Fort Vancouver trading post is established on the lower Columbia River by the Hudson's Bay Company. The Colorado potato beetle is first described, by Thomas Say.