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1834 Historical Event(s)
January 29, 1834
– US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
February 3, 1834
– Wake Forest University is established.
March 18, 1834
– Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
April 3, 1834
– The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.
May 30, 1834
– Joaquim António de Aguiar issue a law extinguishing “all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses of the regular religious orders”, earning him the nickname of “The Friar-Killer”.
July 7, 1834
– In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.
August 1, 1834
– Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.
October 9, 1834
– Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
December 1, 1834
– Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
December 3, 1834
– The Zollverein (German Customs Union) begins the first regular census in Germany.
Who Were Born On 1834?
January 1, 1834
– Ludovic Halévy, French playwright (d. 1908)
January 7, 1834
– Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (d. 1874)
March 24, 1834
– John Wesley Powell, American explorer and environmentalist (d. 1902)
April 1, 1834
– James “Big Jim” Fisk, American entrepreneur (d. 1872)
May 5, 1834
– Viktor Hartmann, Russian architect and painter (d. 1873)
June 18, 1834
– Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie, French philosopher (d. 1895)
June 21, 1834
– Elizabeth Jane Caulfeild, Countess of Charlemont Irish Jewish noblewoman (d. 1882)
August 18, 1834
– Marshall Field, American retailer(d. 1906)
August 22, 1834
– Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer (d. 1906)
December 16, 1834
– Léon Walras, French economist (d. 1910)