Editing 1829 (section)

== Events ==

=== January–March ===
[[File:Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein - Goethe in the Roman Campagna - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|January 19: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]
* [[January 19]] – [[Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann|August Klingemann]]'s adaptation of [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]'s ''[[Goethe's Faust|Faust]]'' premieres in [[Braunschweig]].<ref name="Armstrong1881">{{cite book|author=Richard Acland Armstrong |author-link=Richard Acland Armstrong |title=The Modern review|url=https://archive.org/details/modernreview01armsgoog|access-date=November 27, 2011|year=1881|publisher=J. Clarke & Co.|pages=[https://archive.org/details/modernreview01armsgoog/page/n163 152]–}}</ref>
* [[February 27]] – [[Battle of Tarqui]]: Troops of [[Gran Colombia]] and [[Peru]] battle to a draw.
* [[March 11]] – German composer [[Felix Mendelssohn]] conducts the first performance of [[Johann Sebastian Bach]]'s ''[[St Matthew Passion]]'' since the latter's death in 1750, in Berlin; the success of this performance sparks a revival of interest in Bach.
* [[March 21]] – The bloodless [[Wellington–Winchilsea duel]] takes place at [[Battersea]] near [[London]]
* [[March 22]] – Greece receives autonomy from the [[Ottoman Empire]] in the [[London Protocol (1829)|London Protocol]], signed by [[Russian Empire|Russia]], France and Britain, effectively ending the [[Greek War of Independence]]. Greece continues to seek full independence through diplomatic negotiations with the three Great Powers.
* [[March 31]] – [[Pope Pius VIII]] succeeds [[Pope Leo XII]] as the 253rd pope.

=== April–June ===
* [[April 1]] – [[Vicente Guerrero]] becomes president of [[First Mexican Republic|Mexico]].
* [[April 4]] – The Mexican city of [[Cuautla, Morelos]], is founded.
* [[April 13]] – The [[Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829|Catholic Relief Act]] is passed by the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]], granting a substantial measure of [[Catholic emancipation]] in Britain and [[History of Ireland (1801–1923)#Catholic Emancipation|Ireland]].<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>
* [[April 21]]– Popular German conductor [[Felix Mendelssohn]] begins his first of 10 visits to Britain, touring the island until November 28. This includes the first London performance of his [[concert overture]] to ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn)|A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'', and his trip to [[Fingal's Cave]].<ref>[https://reubenvincent.duetpartner.com/mendelssohn-in-north-wales Mendelssohn: First of Ten Visits to Britain, 21st April – 28th November, 1829]</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first=George|last=Grove|author-link=George Grove|title=Mendelssohn's Scotch Symphony|jstor=904111|journal=[[The Musical Times]]|volume=45|issue=740|date=October 1, 1904|page=644|doi=10.2307/904111|url=https://zenodo.org/record/2346693}}</ref>
* [[May 6]] – The patent for an instrument called the [[accordion]] is applied for by Cyrill Demian (officially approved on May 23).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ksanti.net/free-reed/history/demian.html |title=The Classical Free-Reed, Inc. Demian's Accordion Patent |website=www.ksanti.net |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619162610/http://www.ksanti.net/free-reed/history/demian.html |archive-date=19 June 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[May 15]] – [[Joseph Smith]] claims to [[Priesthood (Latter Day Saints)#Restoration of the Aaronic Priesthood|have received the Aaronic Priesthood]] from John the Baptist.
* [[June 1]] – ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'' is founded in the U.S. as ''The Pennsylvania Inquirer''.
* [[June 3]] – The [[Swan River Colony]] (later to become the cities of [[Perth]] and [[Fremantle]]) is founded in Western Australia. This secures the western ''third'' of the Australian landmass for the British.
* [[June 5]] – {{HMS|Pickle}} captures the [[History of slavery|armed slave ship]] ''Voladora'' off the coast of [[Cuba]].
* [[June 10]] – The [[Oxford University Boat Club]] wins the first inter-university [[The Boat Race|Boat Race]],<ref name="Pocket On This Day"/> rowed at [[Henley-on-Thames]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theboatrace.org/origins|title=Foundations of The Boat Race|work=The Xchanging Boat Race|publisher=Theboatrace.org|access-date=March 29, 2012}}</ref>
* [[June 19]] – [[Robert Peel]] establishes the [[Metropolitan Police Service]] in London, the first modern police force. The first officers, known by the nickname "bobbies", go on patrol on September 29.<ref name="Pocket On This Day"/>

=== July–September ===
* [[July 2]] – [[Russo-Turkish War (1828–29)]]: Russian Field-Marshal [[Hans Karl von Diebitsch]] launches the Trans-Balkan Offensive, which brings the Russian army within {{convert|68|km|mi}} of [[Istanbul]].
* [[July 4]] – [[George Shillibeer]] begins operating the first bus service in London.<ref name="Icons">{{cite web|url=http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1820-1840|title=Icons, a portrait of England 1820-1840|access-date=September 12, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070922055840/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1820-1840 |archive-date=September 22, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[July 23]] – In the United States, [[William Austin Burt|William Burt]] obtains the first patent for a form of [[typewriter]], the ''[[Typographer (typewriter)|typographer]]''.
* [[August 3]] – [[Gioacchino Rossini]]'s opera ''[[William Tell (opera)|William Tell]] (Guillaume Tell)'' is first performed, in Paris.
* [[August 8]] – The [[Prince de Polignac]] succeeds the [[Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac|Vicomte de Martignac]] as [[Prime Minister of France]].
* [[August 10]] – [[Finsteraarhorn]], the highest summit of the [[Bernese Alps]], is first ascended.
* [[August 12]] – Mrs. Helen Dance, wife of the captain of the ship ''Sulphur'', cuts down a tree to mark the founding day of the town of [[Perth]], Western Australia.
* [[August 14]] – [[King's College London]] is founded by [[Royal Charter]], under the patronage of [[George IV of the United Kingdom|King George IV]] and the Prime Minister, [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|The Duke of Wellington]].
* [[September 14]] – The Ottoman Empire signs the [[Treaty of Adrianople (1829)|Treaty of Adrianople]] with Russia, ending the [[Russo-Turkish War]].
* [[September 28]] – African-American abolitionist [[David Walker (abolitionist)|David Walker]] publishes his ''Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World'', in Boston, Massachusetts.

=== October–December ===
* [[October 1]] – [[South African College]] is inaugurated in [[Cape Town]].
* [[October 14]] – [[Robert Stephenson|Stephenson]]'s ''[[Stephenson's Rocket|Rocket]]'' wins the [[Rainhill trials]] to determine the practicality of steam locomotives to operate the [[Liverpool and Manchester Railway]] in England.
* [[October 16]] – The first modern hotel in the United States, [[Tremont House (Boston)]], opens.
* [[October 17]] – [[Kaspar Hauser]] is found wounded.
* [[November 5]]
** [[Technical University of Denmark]] (DTU) opens.
** The [[Chalmers University of Technology]] is founded in [[Gothenburg]], Sweden.
* [[November 30]] – The original [[Welland Canal]] opens for a trial run, with a ceremony at Port Dalhousie, Upper Canada.
* [[December 4]] – In India, [[Lord William Bentinck]], British [[Governor of Bengal|Governor General of the Presidency of Fort William]] in Bengal, pushes through a regulation declaring that all who abet [[Sati (practice)|sati]] (suttee) (the [[self-immolation]] of a widow on her husband's funeral [[pyre]]) in [[Company rule in India|parts of British India]] are guilty of [[culpable homicide]].<ref>"Suttees, or the Burning of Widows", in ''The World's Progress: A Dictionary of Dates'', ed. by George P. Putnam and F. B. Perkins (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1878) p604.</ref> This follows long campaigning by Bengali reformer [[Ram Mohan Roy]].