1829

Events

   * January 19 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres
   * March 4 - 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 10 - Oxford University win the first Boat Race.
   * July 23 - In the United States, William Burt patents the first
     typewriter.
   * August 8 - The Prince de Polignac succeeds the Vicomte de Martignac as
     Prime Minister of France.
   * September 16 - Treaty of Adrianople ends the Russo-Turkish War. Russia
     gains territory at the mouth of the Danube and along the eastern coast
     of the Black Sea.
   * Peel's Metropolitan Police Act.
   * Religious freedom restored in Ireland (see History of Ireland)
   * typewriter is patented
   * The last of the HMS Bounty mutineers dies at Pitcairn Island.

Births

   * January 3 - Konrad Duden, philologist (+ 1911)
   * January 21 - King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway
   * February 2 - Alfred Brehm, zoologist (+ 1884)
   * February 11 - William Anderson Pile Bvt Major General (Union
     volunteers).
   * February 26 - Levi Strauss, clothing designer (+ 1902)
   * March 16 - Sully Prudhomme, laureate of the first Nobel Prize in
     Literature in 1901
   * May 5 - Shusaku Honinbo, Go player (+ 1862)
   * September 7 - Friedrich August KekulŽ von Stradonitz, chemist (benzene
     ring)
   * November 28 - Anton Rubinstein, pianist and composer

Deaths

   * April 6 - Niels Henrik Abel, norwegian mathematician
   * May 17 - John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States
   * May 29 - Sir Humphry Davy, British chemist

Heads of states

   * Ottoman Empire - Mahmud II Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808-1839)
   * Prussia - Frederick William III King of Prussia (1797-1840)

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