Years: 1831 1832 1833 - 1834 - 1835 1836 1837

Decades: 1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1834 in art 1834 in literature 1834 in music 1834 in rail transport 1834 in science 1834 in sports List of state leaders in 1834 List of religious leaders in 1834

Events

• January 1 - Abolition of customs charges at borders within Germany.
• January 3 - The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City
• March 6 - York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
• March 18 - The Tolpuddle Martyrs, six Dorset farm labourers, are sentenced to be transported to a penal colony for forming a trade union
• March 28 - The United States Senate censures President Andrew Jackson for his actions in defunding the Second Bank of the United States
• June 14 - Isaac Fischer, Jr. patents sandpaper
• July 16 - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne succeeds Earl Grey as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• July 24 - End of the Liberal Wars in Portugal
• August 1 - Slavery abolished in the British Empire
• August 14 - Poor Law Amendment Act states that no able-bodied British man can receive assistance unless he enters a workhouse
• August 15 - South Australia Act allows for the creation of an colony there
• October 16 - Much of the Palace of Westminster is destroyed by fire
• November 11 - The rare 1804 silver dollar coin is struck by the United States Mint
• November 24 - George Sand begins her journal to Alfred de Musset.
• December 10 - Sir Robert Peel succeeds Lord Melbourne as Prime Minister of the U.K.
• Abolition of slavery comes into effect in British Empire
• Failed pro-republic uprising in Piedmont – one of the activists is Giuseppe Garibaldi
• New Poor Law in England
• Last hanging in chains upon a gibbet in England - James Cook for murder
• Spanish Inquisition, which began in the 13th century, was suppressed.
• British East India Company monopoly on China trade ended
• Sixth Kaffir War; severe clashes between white settlers and Bantu peoples in Cape Colony. Dutch speaking settlers colonize area north of Orange River
• The Hansom cab is patented
• Louis Braille perfects his Braille system
• The Exchequer was abolished as a revenue collecting department of the British government.

Births

• January 7 - Johann Philipp Reis, physicist, inventor († 1874)
• February 7 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, chemist and inventor of the Periodic table of the chemical elements († 1907)
• February 9 - Felix Dahn, author († 1912)
• February 16 - Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist and philosopher († 1919)
• March 16 - James Hector, Scottish geologist († 1907)
• March 17 - Gottlieb Daimler, engineer and inventor († 1900)
• March 20 - Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University († 1926)
• March 23 - Julius Reubke, composer († 1858).
• March 24 - William Morris, English poet and artist († 1896)
• March 24 - John Wesley Powell, explorer, environmentalist († 1902)
• April 1 - James Fisk, entrepreneur († 1872)
• April 2 - Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor († 1904)
• June 19 - Charles Spurgeon, English Baptist preacher († 1892)
• July 10 - James McNeill Whistler, painter and etcher († 1903)
• July 19 - Edgar Degas, painter († 1917)
• August 22 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist and aeronautics pioneer († 1906)
• August 31 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer († 1886)
• October 8 - Walter Kittredge, American musician and composer during the Civil War. († 1905)

Deaths

• January 17 - Giovanni Aldini, physicist (* 1762)
• February 2 - Lorenzo Dow, US minister (* 1777)
• February 12 - Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologian (* 1768)
• March 2 - José Cecilo del Valle, 1st President of Central America (* 1780)
• April 10 - John 'Merino' MacArthur, Australian farmer (* 1767)
• April 11 - John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, philanthropist and patron of the arts and sciences (* 1757)
• May 20 - Marquis de la Fayette, nobleman and soldier (* 1757)
• July 12 - David Douglas, botanist (* 1799)
• July 25 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Romantic poet, literary critic, philosopher, newspaper writer, teacher (* 1772)
• August 7 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, inventor (* 1752)
• September 2 - Thomas Telford, Scottish engineer (* 1757)
• September 9 - James Weddell, Antarctic explorer (* 1787)
• September 16 - William Blackwood, English writer (* 1776)
• September 24 - Pedro I of Brazil (* 1798)
• October 11 - William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier, British Navy officer, politician and diplomat (* 1786)
• December 23 - Thomas Malthus, economist and political philosopher (* 1766)
• December 27 - Charles Lamb, English essayist (* 1775)

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