1824: Difference between revisions

1824 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1824; MDCCCXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2577
Armenian calendar	1273; ԹՎ ՌՄՀԳ
Assyrian calendar	6574
Balinese saka calendar	1745–1746
Bengali calendar	1231
Berber calendar	2774
British Regnal year	4 Geo. 4 – 5 Geo. 4
Buddhist calendar	2368
Burmese calendar	1186
Byzantine calendar	7332–7333
Chinese calendar	癸未年 (Water Goat); 4521 or 4314; — to —; 甲申年 (Wood Monkey); 4522 or 4315
Coptic calendar	1540–1541
Discordian calendar	2990
Ethiopian calendar	1816–1817
Hebrew calendar	5584–5585
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1880–1881
- Shaka Samvat	1745–1746
- Kali Yuga	4924–4925
Holocene calendar	11824
Igbo calendar	824–825
Iranian calendar	1202–1203
Islamic calendar	1239–1240
Japanese calendar	Bunsei 7; (文政７年)
Javanese calendar	1751–1752
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4157
Minguo calendar	88 before ROC; 民前88年
Nanakshahi calendar	356
Thai solar calendar	2366–2367
Tibetan calendar	阴水羊年; (female Water-Goat); 1950 or 1569 or 797; — to —; 阳木猴年; (male Wood-Monkey); 1951 or 1570 or 798

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century; 19th century ; 20th century;
Decades:	1800s; 1810s; 1820s ; 1830s; 1840s;
Years:	1821; 1822; 1823; 1824 ; 1825; 1826; 1827;

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Year 1824 (MDCCCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

August 1824 Lafayette visits the United States, departing in September 1825
September 13 – With his crew and 29 convicts aboard the Amity, John Oxley arrives at and founds the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement at what is now Redcliffe in Queensland, Australia, after leaving Sydney.
September 16 – Charles X succeeds Louis XVIII as King of France.
October 10 – The Edinburgh Town Council makes a decision to found the Edinburgh Municipal Fire Brigade, the first fire brigade in Britain.
October 21 – Joseph Aspdin patents Portland Cement.
November 5 – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (the first technological university in the English-speaking world) is founded in Troy, New York.
November 7 – In the worst flood to date in Saint Petersburg, water rises 421 cm above normal and 200 lose their lives.
November 30 – The first sod is turned in Ontario, for the first of four Welland Canals (the canal opens for a trial run exactly 5 years later to the day).
December 3 – U.S. presidential election, 1824: None of the four candidates for U.S. President gain a majority of the electoral votes, so the election is thrown into the U.S. House of Representatives.
December 9 – Battle of Ayacucho: Peruvian forces defeat the Spanish.
December 23 – Chief Pushmataha of the Choctaw Nation dies in Washington
December 24 – The Chi Phi (ΧΦ) Fraternity is founded at Princeton University.

The British take Rangoon, Burma.
The Egyptians capture Crete.
The Cimetière du Montparnasse is established in Paris, France.
The Dutch sign the Masang Agreement, temporarily ending hostilities in the Padri War.
The name Australia, recommended by Matthew Flinders in 1804, is finally adopted as the official name of the country once known as New Holland.
The Panoramagram is developed, creating the first volumetric display.
The Fort Vancouver trading post is established on the lower Columbia River by the Hudson Bay Company.

January 8 – Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889)
January 15 – Marie Duplessis, French courtesan (d. 1847)
January 21 – Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, American Confederate general (d. 1863)
February 7 – William Huggins, British astronomer (d. 1910)
February 14 – Winfield Scott Hancock, American Civil War Union general (d. 1886)
February 16 – Peter Kozler, Slovenian cartographer and geographer (d. 1879)
March 2 – Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (d. 1885)
March 9 – Amasa Leland Stanford, Governor of California (d. 1893)
March 12 – Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (d. 1887)
March 19 – William Allingham, Irish author (d. 1889)
March 25 – Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (d. 1900)
May 6 – Tokugawa Iesada, 13th shogun of Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan (d. 1858)
May 16 – Levi P. Morton, 22nd Vice President of the United States (d. 1920)
May 23 – Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general (d. 1881)
June 26 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist and engineer (d. 1907)
June 28 – Paul Broca, French anthropologist (d. 1880)
July 12 – Eugène Boudin, French painter (d. 1898)

July 27 – Alexandre Dumas, fils, French writer (d. 1895)
September 4 – Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (d. 1896)
October 5 – Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and historian (d. 1908)
October 18 – Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano, Spanish author (d. 1905)
December 10 – George MacDonald, English writer (d. 1905)
December 14 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d. 1898)
date unknown – Gideon T. Stewart, American temperance movement leader (d. 1907)

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 * [[December 3]] &ndash; [[U.S. presidential election, 1824]]: None of the four candidates for U.S. President gain a majority of the electoral votes, so the election is thrown into the [[U.S. House of Representatives]].
 * [[December 9]] &ndash; [[Battle of Ayacucho]]: Peruvian forces defeat the Spanish.
+* [[December 23]] &ndash; Chief [[Pushmataha]] of the Choctaw Nation dies in Washington
 * [[December 24]] &ndash; The [[Chi Phi]] (ΧΦ) Fraternity is founded at Princeton University.