1824


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Year 1824 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 12-day slower ).

January - March

 * - After much controversy, is finally elected as a member of the  with only one vote against him.
 * - crush  forces in the, killing the British governor  (See also  and ).
 * - proclaimed  of.
 * - against the Spanish begins, at  in modern-day
 * - The creates the  and  of the  becomes its first director.
 * - Signing of the.

April - June

 * - One of 's greatest masterpieces,, premieres in.

July - September

 * - With his crew and 29 aboard the Amity,  arrives at and founds the  Penal Settlement at what is now  in, , after leaving.
 * - succeeds  as King of.

October - December

 * - Town Council makes a decision to found the, the first  in Britain.
 * - first in the English-speaking world founded:.
 * - Worst flood in : water rose 421 cm above normal and 200 lost their lives.
 * - - A huge fire breaks out on  in . It destroys two tenements and  church. 11 residents and 2 firemen die, 400 people are left homeless.
 * - the first sod is turned at Allenburgh Ontario, for the first of four s ( The canal would open for a trial run exactly 5 years later, to the day )
 * - At the, Peruvian forces defeat Spanish.
 * - The (ΧΦ) Fraternity was founded at Princeton University.

Undated

 * The British take,.
 * between and  is signed.
 * Egyptians capture.
 * Turks seize island of from Greeks but are defeated at.
 * What is now the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in Britain was founded in earnest.
 * established
 * The sign the  temporarily ending hostilities in the
 * The name ', recommended by in, is finally adopted as the official name of the country once known as '.

January - June

 * -, British novelist (d. )
 * -, French courtesan
 * -, American Confederate general (d. )
 * -, British astronomer (d. )
 * -, Slovenian cartographer and geographer (d. )
 * -, Czech composer (d. )
 * -, Governor of California (d. )
 * -, German physicist (d. )
 * -, Irish author (d. )
 * -, American politician (d. )
 * -, Japanese shogun (d. )
 * -, 22nd (d. )
 * -, American Civil War general (d. )
 * -, Irish-born physicist and engineer (d. )
 * -, French anthropologist (d. )
 * -, French painter (d. )

July - December

 * -, French writer (d. )
 * -, Austrian composer (d. )
 * -, baseball writer and historian (d. )
 * -, Spanish author (d. )
 * -, English writer (d. )
 * -, French painter (d. )
 * date unknown -, American temperance movement leader (d. )


 * See also .

January - June

 * -, French revolutionary (b. )
 * -, French painter (b. )
 * -, son of (b. )
 * -, English poet (b. )
 * -, statesman (b. )
 * -, English writer (b. )
 * -, Third Consul of France (b. )
 * - (b. )
 * -, French writer (b. )

July - December

 * , philosopher
 * -, King of Siam (b. )
 * -, founder of the (b. )
 * - (b. )
 * -, Irish writer (b. )


 * See also .