Editing 1834 (section)

=== 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]].