1824

This article is about the year 1824. For other uses, see 1824 (disambiguation).

1824 (MDCCCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (dominical letter DC) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter FE) of the Julian calendar, the 1824th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 824th year of the 2nd millennium, the 24th year of the 19th century, and the 5th year of the 1820s decade. As of the start of 1824, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1918.

Events

May–July – King Kamehameha II of Hawaii and his Queen Consort Kamāmalu make a state visit to London, where they both die of smallpox.
May 7 – Première of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (the "Choral") at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna. The deaf composer has to be turned around on the stage to witness the enthusiastic audience reaction.
May 24 – The British take Rangoon, Burma in the First Anglo-Burmese War.
June 16 – The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is established in Great Britain.

August 16 – Lafayette visits the United States, departing in September 7, 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 his brother Louis XVIII as King of France.

October 4 – First Constitution of Mexico enacted, declaring the country to be a federal republic.
October 10 – The Edinburgh Town Council founds the Edinburgh Municipal Fire Brigade, the first fire brigade in Britain, under the leadership of James Braidwood.
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 19 [O.S. 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 First American Fraternity, Chi Phi (ΧΦ), is founded at Princeton University.

The Egyptians capture Crete.
The Montparnasse Cemetery 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's Bay Company.
The Colorado potato beetle is discovered by Thomas Say.