1829

1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).

Events

January 19 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres
March 4 - USA: Andrew Jackson succeeds John Quincy Adams as the President of the United States of America.
March 22 - Greece receives autonomy from the Ottoman Empire. This effectively ends the Greek War of Independence. Greece continues to seek full independence through diplomatic negotiations with the Empire as well as with Russia, France and Britain.
June 5 - Slave trade: HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
June 10 - Oxford University Boat Club win the very first boat race.
July 2 - Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829: Russian Field-Marshal Ivan Dibich launches the Transbalkan offensive, which would bring the Russian army within 68 km from Istanbul.
July 23 - In the United States, William Burt obtains the first patent for a writing mechanism. (See typewriter)
August 8 - France: The Prince de Polignac succeeds the Vicomte de Martignac as Prime Minister of France.
September 16 - Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829: Treaty of Adrianople gains for Russia some territory at the mouth of the Danube and along the eastern coast of the Black Sea.
October 1 - South Africa: University of Cape Town founded.
October 8 - Rail transport: The Rocket wins The Rainhill Trials.
October 17 - Hooded man tries to assassinate Kaspar Hauser
December 4 - India: In the face of fierce opposition, British Lord William Bentinck carries a regulation declaring that all who abetted suttee in India were guilty of culpable homicide.

January 29 - Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (b. 1755)
February 10 - Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)
April 6 - Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (b. 1802)
May 10 - Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (b. 1773)
May 17 - John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745)
May 29 - Sir Humphry Davy, British chemist (b. 1778)
June 27 - James Smithson, English founder of the Smithsonian Institute (b. 1765)
December 28 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (b. 1744)
John Lansing, Jr., American statesman (disappeared) (b. 1754)
Andrew Fuller, Founder of the Fuller Baptist Church and The Baptist Missionary Society.af:1829