1824

Centuries:	18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades:	1790s 1800s 1810s - 1820s - 1830s 1840s 1850s
Years:	1821 1822 1823 - 1824 - 1825 1826 1827

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For the game, see: 1824 (board game).

For the novel, see: 1824: The Arkansas War.

Year 1824 (MDCCCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events of 1824

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 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 7 - Worst flood in Saint Petersburg: water rose 421 cm above normal and 200 lost their lives.
November 30 - the first sod is turned in Ontario, for the first of four Welland Canals ( The canal would open for a trial run exactly 5 years later, to the day )
December 9 - At the Battle of Ayacucho, Peruvian forces defeat Spanish.
December 24 - The Chi Phi (ΧΦ) Fraternity was founded at Princeton University.

The British take Rangoon, Burma.
Egyptians capture Crete.
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.
The Panoramagram is developed, creating the first volumetric display.

January 8 - Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889)
January 15 - Marie Duplessis, French courtesan
January 21 - 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 - Bedřich 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)
March 25 - Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (d. 1900)
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 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)
October 18 - Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano, Spanish author (d. 1905)
December 10 - George MacDonald, English writer (d. 1905)
December 14 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d. 1898)
date unknown - Gideon T. Stewart, American temperance movement leader (d. 1907)

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