1824

This page is about the year 1824. For the board game, see 1824.

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1824 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).

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January 8 - After much controversy, Michael Faraday is finally elected as a member of the Royal Society with only one vote against.
January 22 - Ashanti crush British forces in the Gold Coast (See also Wars between Britain and Ashanti in Ghana and Ashanti Confederacy).
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.
March 17 signing of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824.
May 7 - one of Beethoven's greatest masterpieces, Symphony No. 9, premieres in Vienna.
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, Queensland, Australia, after leaving Sydney.
September 16 - Charles X succeeds 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 5 - first technological university in the English-speaking world founded: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
November 15- 16 - A 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 people are left homeless.
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.
What is now the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in Britain was founded in earnest.
Cimetière du Montparnasse established
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.