Editing 1834 (section)

== Events ==

=== January–March ===
* [[January 1]] – [[Zollverein]] (Germany): [[Customs]] charges are abolished at borders within its member states.
* [[January 3]] – The government of Mexico imprisons [[Stephen F. Austin]] in [[Mexico City]].
* January – The [[Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad]] is chartered in [[Wilmington, North Carolina]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.carolana.com/NC/Transportation/railroads/nc_rrs_wilmington_raleigh.html|work=North Carolina Railroads|title=Wilmington & Raleigh Railroad|access-date=2021-01-16}}</ref>
* [[February 3]] – [[Wake Forest University]] is founded as the Wake Forest Manual Labor Institute in [[Wake Forest, North Carolina]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://about.wfu.edu/history/|work=Wake Forest University|title=About Wake Forest|access-date=2024-12-17}}</ref>
* [[February 12]] – Freed American slaves from [[Maryland]] form a settlement in [[Cape Palmas]], it is named the [[Republic of Maryland]].
* [[February 13]] – [[Robert Owen]] organizes the [[Grand National Consolidated Trades Union]] in the United Kingdom.<ref>G. D. H. Cole, ''Attempts at General Union'' (Taylor & Francis, 2010) p122</ref>
* [[March 6]] – [[York, Upper Canada]], is incorporated as [[Toronto]].
* [[March 11]] – The United States Survey of the Coast is transferred to the [[United States Department of the Navy|Department of the Navy]].
* [[March 14]] – [[John Herschel]] discovers the open cluster of stars now known as [[NGC 3603]], observing from the [[Cape of Good Hope]].<ref name=Sher1965>{{cite journal|last=Sher|first=D.|title=The Curious History of NGC 3603|journal=Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada|volume=59|page=76|year=1965|bibcode=1965JRASC..59...67S}}</ref>
* [[March 28]] – [[Andrew Jackson]] is censured by the [[United States Congress]] (expunged in 1837).
* March – [[John Scott Russell]]'s ''Scottish Steam Carriage Company'' begins operating a regular passenger service in west central Scotland on the open road between [[Glasgow]] and [[Paisley, Renfrewshire]].

=== April–June ===
* [[April 10]] – The LaLaurie mansion in New Orleans burns, and Madame [[Marie Delphine LaLaurie]] flees to France.      
* [[April 14]] – The [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig Party]] is officially named by [[United States Senator]] [[Henry Clay]].
* [[April 22]] – [[Spanish Empire|Spain]], [[July Monarchy|France]], [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portugal]] and the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]] sign the [[1834 Quadruple Alliance|Quadruple Alliance]].
*  [[May 9]] – The founder of the [[Second Saudi State]], Imam Turki bin Abdullah Al Saud, is assassinated after the Friday prayers by Ibrahim Hamza, following the orders of his cousin Mishari.
* [[May 19]] – The [[Syrian Peasant Revolt (1834–35)]] erupts in [[Muhammad Ali dynasty|Egyptian-ruled]] [[Ottoman Syria]], encompassing peasant uprisings in [[Peasants' revolt in Palestine|Palestine and Transjordan]], at [[Galilee]] and [[Hauran]] and at the [[Alawite revolt (1834–35)|Syrian coast]]; the rebellions are suppressed with harsh military response leading to thousands of deaths and mostly subdued by August, though the Syrian coast uprising lasts until early 1835.
* [[June 7]] – Greek independence: General [[Theodoros Kolokotronis]] is sentenced to death for [[treason]], for resisting the rule of [[Otto of Greece]] (he is released the following year).
* [[June 21]] – American inventor and businessman [[Cyrus McCormick]] is granted a patent for his mechanical reaper.

=== July–September ===
* [[July 7]]–[[July 10|10]] – [[Anti-abolitionist riots (1834)|Anti-abolitionist riots]] break out in [[New York City]].
*  [[July 8]] – Imam Faisal bin Turki enters [[Riyadh]] and upon entering his father's palace, assassinates his father's murderer, Ibrahim Hamza, and his master; Mishari, and becomes the ruler and founder of the Second Saudi State.
* [[July 15]] – The [[Spanish Inquisition]], which began in the 15th century, is suppressed by royal decree.
* [[July 16]] – [[William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne]] succeeds [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey|Earl Grey]] as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]].
* [[July 24]] – The [[Liberal Wars]] end in Portugal.
* [[July 29]] – The [[Office of Indian Affairs]] is organized in the United States.
[[File:Emancipation of Slaves 1834 monument - Victoria Tower Gardens - Millbank - Westminster - London - 24042004.jpg|100px|thumb|The [[Buxton Memorial Fountain]] in London, celebrating the emancipation of slaves.]]
* [[August 1]]
**[[Slavery]] is abolished in the [[British Empire]], by the [[Slavery Abolition Act 1833]].
**Construction work begins on the [[Wilberforce Monument]] in [[Kingston Upon Hull]].<ref name=Wilberforce>{{Cite web|last=Kitching|first=Sophie|date=9 February 2018|title=The bizarre reason this Hull landmark was moved 82 years ago|url=https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/history/bizarre-reason-hull-landmark-moved-1176719|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210302144359/https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/history/bizarre-reason-hull-landmark-moved-1176719|archive-date=2 March 2021|access-date=1 October 2021|website=[[Hull Daily Mail]]|publisher=[[Trinity Mirror]]|language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 11]]–[[August 12|12]] – [[Ursuline Convent riots]]: A convent of Ursuline nuns is burned near [[Boston]].
* [[August 12]] – In the [[Empire of Brazil]], the [[1834 Additional Act|Additional Act]] provides for establishment of the Provincial Legislative Assembly, extinction of the State Council, replacement of the Regency Trina, and introduction of a direct and secret ballot.
* [[August 14]] –  The [[Poor Law Amendment Act 1834|Poor Law Amendment Act]] in the United Kingdom states that no able-bodied British man can receive assistance, unless he enters a [[workhouse]] (a kind of [[poorhouse]]).
* [[August 15]] – The [[South Australia Act 1834|South Australia Act]] allows for the creation of a colony there.
* [[September 11]] – The emigrant ship ''Sybelle'' out of [[Cromarty]] (Scotland) is wrecked off [[St. Paul Island (Nova Scotia)]] with the loss of all 316 passengers and all but six of her crew.<ref>{{cite news|title=Shipping Intelligence|newspaper=Liverpool Mercury|date=24 October 1834|issue=1225}}</ref>
* [[September 13]] – ''[[The Gleaner (Jamaica)|The Gleaner]]'' newspaper is first published in [[Jamaica]].
* [[September 18]] – [[Athens]] becomes Greece's capital city.

=== October–December ===
* [[October 16]] – The [[Palace of Westminster]] is destroyed by [[Burning of Parliament|fire]], along with both the House of Commons and the House of Lords (which are not in session) of the British Parliament.  An investigation later traces the disaster to an order from the Exchequer to the Board of Works to destroy the [[tally stick]]s that had been stored as part of record keeping, the use of the furnaces beneath the House of Lords to carry out the task, and the failure of authorities to stop the work or to fight the fire after smoke had first been detected, the conclusion being that the fire was "wholly attributable to carelessness and negligence."<ref name=Fires>"Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) pp74-75</ref>
* [[November 14]] – [[William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne]] becomes the last [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] to be dismissed by the British monarch.  [[William IV of the United Kingdom|King William IV]] temporarily appoints [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington]], to form a caretaker government.<ref>Michael S. Patridge, ''The Duke of Wellington, 1769-1852: A Bibliography'' (Greenwood Publishing, 1990) p129</ref><ref>Rory Muir, ''Wellington: Waterloo and the Fortunes of Peace 1814-1852'' (Yale University Press, 2013) pp439-440</ref>
* [[December 3]] – The ''[[Zollverein]]'' institutes the first regular [[census in Germany]]. The population is 23,478,120.
* [[December 10]] – Sir [[Robert Peel]] succeeds [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|The Duke of Wellington]] as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]].
* [[December 11]] – The [[Sixth Xhosa War]] is characterized by severe clashes between white settlers and [[Bantu peoples]] in [[Cape Colony]]; Dutch-speaking settlers colonize the area north of [[Orange River]].

=== Date unknown ===
* The British [[East India Company]] monopoly on China trade ends. It appoints a Tea Committee to assess the potential of [[Assam tea]].
* The Medical School of Louisiana (later [[Tulane University]]) is founded in [[New Orleans]].
* [[Charles Babbage]] begins the conceptual design of the ''[[Analytical Engine]]'', a mechanical forerunner of the modern computer. It will not be built in his lifetime.<ref>{{cite book|first=Anthony|last=Hyman|author-link=R. Anthony Hyman|title=[[Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer]]|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=1982|isbn=0-19-858170-X}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/computing_and_data_processing/1878-3.aspx|title=Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871 (Trial model)|publisher=[[Science Museum, London]]|access-date=2010-10-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100920230519/http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/computing_and_data_processing/1878-3.aspx|archive-date=September 20, 2010|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Thomas Davenport (inventor)|Thomas Davenport]], inventor of the first American [[Direct current|DC]] electrical motor, installs his motor in a small model car, creating one of the first [[electric car]]s.
* The Romanian language is banned in the schools and government facilities of the Russian Empire's [[Bessarabia Governorate]].<ref name=Stoica1>{{cite book|last=Stoica|first=Vasile|title=The Roumanian Question: The Roumanians and their Lands|year=1919|publisher=Pittsburgh Printing Company|page=31 |url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/7314/view/1/31/}}</ref>
* Statue of [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] is erected in his birthplace of [[Geneva]].