1829

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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

Years: 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 - 1829 - 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834

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Events

• January 19 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres
• March 4 - Andrew Jackson succeeds John Quincy Adams as the President of the United States of America.
• March 22 - Greece receives autonomy from the Ottoman Empire. This effectively ends the Greek War of Independence. Greece continues to seek full independence through diplomatic negotiations with the Empire as well as with Russia, France and Britain.
• June 10 - Oxford University win the first Boat Race.
• August 8 - The Prince de Polignac[?] succeeds the Vicomte de Martignac[?] as Prime Minister of France.
• September 16 - Treaty of Adrianople[?] ends the Russo-Turkish War. Russia gains territory at the mouth of the Danube and along the eastern coast of the Black Sea.
• Peel's Metropolitan Police Act[?].
• Religious freedom restored in Ireland (see History of Ireland)
• typewriter is patented
• The last of the HMS Bounty mutineers dies at Pitcairn Island.

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

• 1829 in literature:

Births

• January 3 - Konrad Duden[?], philologist (+ 1911)
• January 21 - King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway
• February 2 - Alfred Brehm, zoologist (+ 1884)
• February 11 - William Anderson Pile[?] Bvt Major General (Union volunteers[?]).
• February 26 - Levi Strauss[?], clothing designer (+ 1902)
• March 16 - Sully Prudhomme, laureate of the first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901
• May 5 - Shusaku Honinbo, Go player (+ 1862)
• September 7 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, chemist (benzene ring)
• November 28 - Anton Rubinstein, pianist and composer

Deaths

• May 17 - John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States
• May 29 - Sir Humphry Davy, British chemist