1829

Events

January–March

January 19 – August Klingemann's adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres in Braunschweig.
February 27 – Battle of Tarqui: Troops of Gran Colombia and Peru battle to a draw.
March 11 – German composer Felix Mendelssohn conducts the first performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion since the latter's death in 1750, in Berlin; the success of this performance sparks a revival of interest in Bach.
March 21 – The bloodless Wellington–Winchilsea duel takes place at Battersea near London
March 22 – Greece receives autonomy from the Ottoman Empire in the London Protocol, signed by Russia, France and Britain, effectively ending the Greek War of Independence. Greece continues to seek full independence through diplomatic negotiations with the three Great Powers.
March 31 – Pope Pius VIII succeeds Pope Leo XII as the 253rd pope.

April–June

April 1 – Vicente Guerrero becomes president of Mexico.
April 4 – The Mexican city of Cuautla, Morelos, is founded.
April 13 – The Catholic Relief Act 1829|Catholic Relief Act] is passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, granting a substantial measure of Catholic emancipation in Britain and Ireland (1801–1923)#Catholic Emancipation|Ireland].
April 21– Popular German conductor Felix Mendelssohn begins his first of 10 visits to Britain, touring the island until November 28. This includes the first London performance of his concert overture to A [Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn)|A Midsummer Night's Dream], and his trip to Fingal's Cave.
May 6 – The patent for an instrument called the accordion is applied for by Cyrill Demian.
May 15 – Joseph Smith claims to have received the Aaronic Priesthood from John the Baptist.
June 1 – The Philadelphia Inquirer is founded in the U.S. as The Pennsylvania Inquirer.
June 3 – The Swan River Colony is founded in Western Australia. This secures the western third of the Australian landmass for the British.
June 5 – captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
June 10 – The Oxford University Boat Club wins the first inter-university Boat Race, rowed at Henley-on-Thames.
June 19 – Robert Peel establishes the Metropolitan Police Service in London, the first modern police force. The first officers, known by the nickname "bobbies", go on patrol on September 29.

July–September

July 2 – Russo-Turkish War (1828–29): Russian Field-Marshal Hans Karl von Diebitsch launches the Trans-Balkan Offensive, which brings the Russian army within of Istanbul.
July 4 – George Shillibeer begins operating the first bus service in London.
July 23 – In the United States, William Burt obtains the first patent for a form of typewriter, the typographer.
August 3 – Gioacchino Rossini's opera William Tell is first performed, in Paris.
August 8 – The Prince de Polignac succeeds the Vicomte de Martignac as Prime Minister of France.
August 10 – Finsteraarhorn, the highest summit of the Bernese Alps, is first ascended.
August 12 – Mrs. Helen Dance, wife of the captain of the ship Sulphur, cuts down a tree to mark the founding day of the town of Perth, Western Australia.
August 14 – King's College London is founded by Royal Charter, under the patronage of King George IV and the Prime Minister, The Duke of Wellington.
September 14 – The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, ending the Russo-Turkish War.
September 28 – African-American abolitionist David Walker publishes his Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, in Boston, Massachusetts.

October–December

October 1 – South African College is inaugurated in Cape Town.
October 14 – Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill trials to determine the practicality of steam locomotives to operate the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in England.
October 16 – The first modern hotel in the United States, Tremont House (Boston), opens.
October 17 – Kaspar Hauser is found wounded.
November 5
* Technical University of Denmark opens.
* The Chalmers University of Technology is founded in Gothenburg, Sweden.
November 30 – The original Welland Canal opens for a trial run, with a ceremony at Port Dalhousie, Upper Canada.
December 4 – In India, Lord William Bentinck, British Governor General of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal, pushes through a regulation declaring that all who abet sati in parts of British India are guilty of culpable homicide. This follows long campaigning by Bengali reformer Ram Mohan Roy.

Births

January–June

January 1 – Tommaso Salvini, Italian actor
January 3 – Konrad Duden, German philologist
January 10 – Epameinondas Deligeorgis, Prime Minister of Greece
January 17 – Catherine Booth, English Mother of The Salvation Army
January 21 – King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway
January 27 – Isaac Roberts, Welsh astronomer
February 2
* Alfred Brehm, German zoologist
* William Stanley, British inventor, engineer
February 22 – Princess Sumiko, Japanese princess
February 26 – Levi Strauss, American clothing designer
March 2 – Carl Schurz, German revolutionary, American statesman
March 14 – Pierre-Hector Coullié, Cardinal-Archbishop of Lyon
March 16 – George M. Robeson, American politician
March 19 – Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier, industrialist
April 6 – Anna Haslam, Irish women's rights activist, suffragist
April 10 – William Booth, British founder of The Salvation Army
May 8 – Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American composer, pianist
June 4 – Allan Octavian Hume, British civil servant
June 5 – George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen, Scottish-Canadian businessman, philanthropist
June 6 – Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player
June 8 – Sir John Everett Millais, British Pre-Raphaelite painter
June 14 – Bernard Petitjean, French Catholic missionary to Japan
June 16 – Geronimo, indigenous American leader

July–December

July 2 – Martis Karin Ersdotter, Swedish businesswoman
July 14 – Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury
July 26 – Auguste Beernaert, Belgian statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
August 24 – Emanuella Carlbeck, Swedish social reformer
September 3 – Adolf Eugen Fick, German-born physician, physiologist
September 7 – August Kekulé, German chemist
September 12 – Anselm Feuerbach, German painter
October 1 – Sidney Hill, English philanthropist
October 5 – Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States
October 13 – Jules Pellechet, French architect
October 15 – Asaph Hall, American astronomer
November 9 – Sir Peter Lumsden, British general in the Indian army
November 10 – Newton Knight, American farmer, soldier and Southern Unionist in Mississippi and Civil War guerrilla
November 28 – Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist, composer

Deaths

January–June

January 6 – Amalia Holst, German writer, intellectual, and feminist
January 12 – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, German poet, philosopher, and philologist
January 25 – William Shield, English violinist, composer
January 29
* Paul Barras, French politician
* István Pauli Hungarian Slovene priest, writer
* Timothy Pickering, American politician
February 10 – Pope Leo XII
February 11 – Alexander Griboyedov, Russian playwright, diplomat
February 17 – Michel Ange Bernard Mangourit, French diplomat
February 21 – Kittur Chennamma, Indian queen regnant
February 26 – Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, German painter
March 2 – Karl Gottfried Hagen, German chemist
March 5 – John Adams, last surviving Bounty mutineer
March 8 – Francesco Ruspoli, 3rd Prince of Cerveteri
March 30 – Christopher Frederik Lowzow, Danish-Norwegian army officer
April 6 – Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician
April 18 – Veronika Gut, Swiss rebel heroine
May 10 – Thomas Young, English physician, linguist
May 17 – John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States
May 21 – Peter I, Grand Duke of Oldenburg
May 29 – Humphry Davy, British chemist
May 30 – Louis Aloysius, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein
June 6 – Shanawdithit, last known pure-blooded member of the Beothuk people
June 15 – Therese Huber, German writer and scholar
June 27 – James Smithson, British mineralogist, chemist, whose fortune eventually went to the United States of America, and was used to initially fund the Smithsonian Institution

July–December

July 11 – Hannah Mather Crocker, American essayist, advocate of women's rights in America
July 23 – Wojciech Bogusławski, actor and director, Father of Polish Theatre
August 7 – John Reeves, British judge
September 28 – David Gillespie, American surveyor and politician
October 10 – Maria Elizabetha Jacson, British botanist
October 29 – Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian musician and composer, sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
November 12 – Jean-Baptiste Regnault, French painter
November 14
* Maria Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Massa, Duchess of Massa and Princess of Carrara
* Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French chemist, discoverer of beryllium and chromium
November 26 – Bushrod Washington, American Supreme Court justice
December 12 – John Lansing Jr., American statesman
December 28
* Elizabeth Freeman, African American slave
* Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist
* Bill Richmond, British boxer
December 29 – Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg

Date unknown

Huang Lü, Chinese scientist