Editing 1829

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[[File:The Foundation of Perth.jpg|thumb|250px|June 3: [[Perth]] is founded in Australia.]]
[[File:1829 Inauguration of President Andrew Jackson.jpg|thumb|250px|March 4: First populist U.S. President, [[Andrew Jackson]], is [[First inauguration of Andrew Jackson|inaugurated in Washington D.C.]] and invites the general public to tour the White House.]]
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== 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]].

== Births ==

=== January–June ===
[[File:King_Oscar_II_of_Sweden_in_uniform.png|thumb|110px|King [[Oscar II of Sweden]]]]
* [[January 1]] – [[Tommaso Salvini]], Italian actor (d. 1915)
* [[January 3]] – [[Konrad Duden]], German philologist (d. 1911)
* [[January 10]] – [[Epameinondas Deligeorgis]], Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1879)
* [[January 17]] – [[Catherine Booth]], English ''Mother'' of [[The Salvation Army]] (d. 1890)
* [[January 21]] – King [[Oscar II of Sweden]] and Norway (d. 1907)
* [[January 27]] – [[Isaac Roberts]], Welsh astronomer (d. 1904)
* [[February 2]]
** [[Alfred Brehm]], German zoologist (d. 1884)
** [[William Stanley (inventor)|William Stanley]], British inventor, engineer (d. 1909)
* [[February 22]] – [[Princess Sumiko]], Japanese princess (d. 1881)
* [[February 26]] – [[Levi Strauss]], American clothing designer (d. 1902)
* [[March 2]] – [[Carl Schurz]], German revolutionary, American statesman (d. 1906)
* [[March 14]] – [[Pierre-Hector Coullié]], Cardinal-Archbishop of Lyon (d. 1912)
* [[March 16]] – [[George M. Robeson]], American politician (d. 1897)
* [[March 19]] – [[Carl Frederik Tietgen]], Danish financier, industrialist (d. 1901)
* [[April 6]] – [[Anna Haslam]], Irish women's rights activist, suffragist (d. 1922)
* [[April 10]] – [[William Booth]], British founder of [[The Salvation Army]] (d. 1912)
* [[May 8]] – [[Louis Moreau Gottschalk]], American composer, pianist (d. 1869)
* [[June 4]] – [[Allan Octavian Hume]], British civil servant (d. 1912)
* [[June 5]] – [[George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen]], Scottish-Canadian businessman,  philanthropist (d. 1921)
* [[June 6]] – [[Shusaku Honinbo]], Japanese ''Go'' player (d. 1862)
* [[June 8]] – [[John Everett Millais|Sir John Everett Millais]], British Pre-Raphaelite painter (d. 1896)
* [[June 14]] – [[Bernard Petitjean]], French Catholic missionary to Japan (d. 1884)
* [[June 16]] – [[Geronimo]], indigenous American (Apache) leader (d. 1909)

=== July–December ===
[[File:Adolf Fick 8bit korr klein1.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Adolf Eugen Fick]]]]
[[File:Frkekulé.jpg|thumb|110px|[[August Kekulé]]]]
* [[July 2]] – [[Martis Karin Ersdotter]], Swedish businesswoman (died 1902)
* [[July 14]] – [[Edward Benson (bishop)|Edward White Benson]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (d. 1896)
* [[July 26]] – [[Auguste Beernaert]], Belgian statesman, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. 1912)
* [[August 24]] – [[Emanuella Carlbeck]], Swedish social reformer  (d. 1901)
* [[September 3]] – [[Adolf Eugen Fick]], German-born physician, physiologist (d. 1901)
* [[September 7]] – [[August Kekulé]], German chemist (d. 1896)
* [[September 12]] – [[Anselm Feuerbach]], German painter (d. 1880)
* [[October 1]] – [[Sidney Hill]], English philanthropist (d. 1908)
* [[October 5]] – [[Chester A. Arthur]], 21st [[President of the United States]] (d. 1886)
* [[October 13]] – [[Jules Pellechet]], French architect (d. 1903)
* [[October 15]] – [[Asaph Hall]], American astronomer (d. 1907)
* [[November 9]] – [[Peter Lumsden|Sir Peter Lumsden]], British general in the Indian army (d. 1918)
* [[November 10]] – [[Newton Knight]], American farmer, soldier and [[Southern Unionist]] in Mississippi and Civil War guerrilla (d. [[1922]])
* [[November 28]] – [[Anton Rubinstein]], Russian pianist, composer (d. 1894)

== Deaths ==

=== January–June ===
* [[January 6]] – [[Amalia Holst]], German writer, intellectual, and feminist (b. 1758)
* [[January 12]] – [[Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel]], German poet, philosopher, and philologist (b. 1772)
* [[January 25]] – [[William Shield]], English violinist, composer (b. 1748)
* [[January 29]] 
** [[Paul Barras]], French politician (b. 1755)
** [[István Pauli]] (Pável) [[Hungarian Slovenes|Hungarian Slovene]] priest, writer (b. 1760)
** [[Timothy Pickering]], American politician (b. 1745)
* [[February 10]] – [[Pope Leo XII]] (b. 1760)
* [[February 11]] – [[Alexander Griboyedov]], Russian playwright, diplomat (b. 1795)
* [[February 17]] – [[Michel Ange Bernard Mangourit]], French diplomat (b. 1752)
* [[February 21]] – [[Kittur Chennamma]], Indian queen regnant (b. 1778)
* [[February 26]] – [[Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein]], German painter (b. 1751)
* [[March 2]] – [[Karl Gottfried Hagen]], German chemist (b. 1749)
* [[March 5]] – [[John Adams (mutineer)|John Adams]], last surviving  ''[[Mutiny on the Bounty|Bounty]]'' mutineer (b. 1767)
* [[March 8]] – [[Francesco Ruspoli, 3rd Prince of Cerveteri]] (b. 1752)
* [[March 30]] – [[Christopher Frederik Lowzow]], Danish-Norwegian army officer (b. 1752)
* [[April 6]] – [[Niels Henrik Abel]], Norwegian mathematician (b. 1802)
* [[April 18]] – [[Veronika Gut]], Swiss rebel heroine (b. 1757)
* [[May 10]] – [[Thomas Young (scientist)|Thomas Young]], English physician, linguist (b. 1773)
* [[May 17]] – [[John Jay]], first [[Chief Justice of the United States]] (b. 1745)
* [[May 21]] – [[Peter I, Grand Duke of Oldenburg]] (b. 1755)
[[File:Sir Humphry Davy, Bt by Thomas Phillips.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Humphry Davy]]]]
* [[May 29]] – [[Humphry Davy]], British chemist (b. 1778)
* [[May 30]] – [[Louis Aloysius, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein]] (b. 1765)
* [[June 6]] – [[Shanawdithit]], last known pure-blooded member of the [[Beothuk]] people (b. c. 1801)
* [[June 15]] – [[Therese Huber]], German writer and scholar (b. 1764)
* [[June 27]] – [[James Smithson]], British mineralogist, chemist, whose fortune eventually went to the United States of America, and was used to initially fund the [[Smithsonian Institution]] (b. 1764)

=== July–December ===
[[File:Jean-baptiste lamarck2.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]]]]
* [[July 11]] – [[Hannah Mather Crocker]], American essayist, advocate of women's rights in America (b. 1752)
* [[July 23]] – [[Wojciech Bogusławski]], actor and director, ''Father of Polish Theatre'' (b. 1757)
* [[August 7]] – [[John Reeves (activist)|John Reeves]], British judge (b. 1752)
* [[September 28]] – [[David Gillespie (surveyor)|David Gillespie]], American surveyor and politician (b. 1774)
* [[October 10]] – [[Maria Elizabetha Jacson]], British botanist (b. 1755)
* [[October 29]] – [[Maria Anna Mozart]] ("Nannerl"), Austrian musician and composer, sister of [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] (b. 1751)
* [[November 12]] – [[Jean-Baptiste Regnault]], French painter (b. 1754)
* [[November 14]] – [[Louis Nicolas Vauquelin]], French chemist, discoverer of [[beryllium]] and [[chromium]] (b. 1763)
* [[November 26]] – [[Bushrod Washington]], American Supreme Court justice (b. 1762)
* [[December 12]] – [[John Lansing Jr.]], American statesman (disappeared) (b. 1754)
* [[December 28]]
** [[Elizabeth Freeman]], African American slave
** [[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]], French scientist (b. 1744)
** [[Bill Richmond]], British boxer (b. 1763)
* [[December 29]] – [[Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg]] (b. 1797) (scarlet fever)

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Huang Lü]], Chinese scientist

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