Editing 1824 (section)

=== January–March ===
* [[January 8]] – After much controversy, [[Michael Faraday]] is finally elected as a member of the [[Royal Society]] in London, with only one vote against him.
* [[January 21]] – [[First Anglo-Ashanti War]]: [[Battle of Nsamankow]] – forces of the [[Ashanti Empire]] crush British forces in the [[Gold Coast (British colony)|Gold Coast]] (modern-day [[History of Ghana|Ghana]]), killing the British governor [[Charles MacCarthy (British Army officer)|Sir Charles MacCarthy]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Raugh|first1=Harold E.|title=The Victorians at war : 1815 - 1914 : an encyclopedia of British military history|date=2004|publisher=ABC-CLIO|location=Santa Barbara [u.a.]|isbn=1-57607-925-2|pages=33–34|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HvE_Pa_ZlfsC&q=Charles+McCarthy+Ashanti&pg=PA33|accessdate=6 March 2016}}</ref>
* [[January 24]] – The first issue of ''The [[Westminster Review]]'', the radical quarterly founded by [[Jeremy Bentham]], is published in London.
* [[February 10]] – [[Simón Bolívar]] is proclaimed dictator of [[Peru]].<ref>{{cite book|last=McFarlane|first=Anthony|title=War and Independence in Spanish America|year=2014|publisher=[[Routledge]]|page=398|isbn=978-1-85728-783-7}}</ref>{{sfn|McFarlane|2014|p=398}}
* [[February 20]] — [[William Buckland]] formally announces the name ''[[Megalosaurus]]'', the first scientifically validly named non-avian dinosaur species.<ref name="buckland1824">{{cite journal |last=Buckland |first=W. |year=1824 |title=Notice on the ''Megalosaurus'' or great Fossil Lizard of Stonesfield |journal=Transactions of the Geological Society of London |series=2 |doi=10.1144/transgslb.1.2.390 |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=390–396|s2cid=129920045 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/partpdf/91364 |url-access= |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date= }}</ref>
* [[February 21]] – The [[Chumash Revolt of 1824]] begins against the Spanish presence in [[Alta California]] (now the U.S. state of [[California]]) as an uprising by the [[Chumash people]] at [[Mission Santa Inés]] (now [[Solvang, California|Solvang]], [[Mission Santa Barbara]], and [[Mission La Purisima]] (now [[Lompoc, California|Lompoc]] in what is now [[Santa Barbara County, California]]. By [[June 28]], the uprising ends after the Spanish government and the Chumash leaders reach a peace agreement.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Sandos|first=James|jstor=41171145|title=LEVANTAMIENTO!: The 1824 Chumash Uprising Reconsidered|date=Summer 1985|issue=2|volume=67|journal=Southern California Quarterly|pages=109–133|doi=10.2307/41171145}}</ref>
* [[March 4]] – The [[Royal National Lifeboat Institution]] is founded in the British Isles.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Leach |first1=Nicholas |title=Cornwall's Lifeboat Heritage |date=2006 |publisher=Twelveheads Press |isbn=0-906294-43-6 |page=12}}</ref>
* [[March 5]] – The [[First Anglo-Burmese War]] begins in much of what is now [[Bangladesh]], and lasts for almost two years until the a surrender of territories by the Kingdom of Burma on February 24, 1826.<ref>{{cite book |author=G.E. Harvey |title=History of Burma |page=341 |chapter=Notes: Fire-Arms |year=1925 |publisher=Frank Cass & Co. Ltd. |location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=History of Burma |first=Lt. Gen. Sir Arthur P. |last=Phayre |year=1967 |pages=236–237 |edition=2nd |publisher=Sunil Gupta |location=London}}</ref>
* [[March 7]] – In the [[Florida Territory]], the announcement is made from [[St. Augustine, Florida|St. Augustine]] that the capital will be moved to [[Tallahassee, Florida|Tallahassee]].{{citation needed|date=December 2024}}
* [[March 9]] – The [[Netherlands Trading Society]] (''Netherlandsche Handel-Maatschappij''), predecessor of the Dutch bank [[ABN AMRO]], is founded.<ref>J.L. van en A. van Riel Zanden (2000); ''Nederland 1780-1914: Staat, instituties en economische ontwikkeling'', p. 139-145; Uitgeverij Balans, Amsterdam. {{ISBN|9050185193}}.</ref>
* [[March 11]] – The [[United States War Department]] creates the [[Bureau of Indian Affairs]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=A History of the Bureau of Indian affairs and Its Activities Among Indians |last=Jackson |first=Curtis |publisher=R & E Research|year=1997 |location=San Francisco, California |pages=43}}</ref>
* [[March 17]] – The [[Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824]] is signed to resolve territorial disputes between the British Empire and the Netherlands over control of the Malay Peninsula and the Dutch East Indies (now Malaysia and Indonesia)<ref>H.R.C. Wright, "The Anglo-Dutch Dispute in the East, 1814–1824." ''Economic History Review'' 3.2 (1950): 229–239 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2590770 online].</ref>
* [[March 19]] – American explorer [[Benjamin Morrell]] departs [[Antarctica]] after a voyage later plagued by claims of fraud.<ref>{{cite book|last= Morrell|first= Benjamin|title= A Narrative of Four Voyages...etc|url= https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%22Benjamin+Morrell%22+OR+%22Morrell%2C+Benjamin%22%29 |publisher= New York: J & J Harper|year= 1832|access-date= December 17, 2009|pages=69&ndash;70}}</ref>