1834

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s

Years: 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 - 1834 - 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839

• January 3 - The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City
• March 6 - York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
• March 28 - The United States Senate censures President Andrew Jackson for his actions in defunding the Second Bank of the United States
• July 16 - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne succeeds Earl Grey as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• December 10 - Sir Robert Peel succeeds Lord Melbourne as Prime Minister of the U.K.
• Spanish Inquisition, which began in the 13th century, was suppressed.
• South Australia Act[?] allows for the creation of an colony there.
• 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.
• US President Andrew Jackson censured by United States Senate for taking out deposits from the Bank of the United States[?].
• Fire at the British Houses of Parliament
• Poor Law Amendment Act[?] states that no able-bodied British man can receive assistance unless he enters a workhouse.

1834 in literature:

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame, novel by Victor Hugo

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
• February 9 - Felix Dahn[?], author (+ 1912)
• February 16 - Ernst Haeckel, zoologist and philosopher (+ 1919)
• March 17 - Gottlieb Daimler, engineer and inventor (+ 1900)
• March 24 - John Wesley Powell, explorer, environmentalist (+ 1902)
• April 1 - James Fisk, entrepreneur (+ 1872)
• April 2 - Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor
• July 19 - Edgar Degas, painter
• August 31 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer
• Charles Spurgeon, English Baptist preacher
• William Morris, English poet and artist
• Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist and philosopher

Deaths

• July 25 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Romantic poet, literary critic, philosopher, newspaper writer, teacher
• December 23 - Thomas Malthus, economist and political philosopher
• December 27 - Charles Lamb, English essayist
• Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologian
• William Blackwood, English writer.