1824

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

Decades: 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s - 1820s - 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s

Years: 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 - 1824 - 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829

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Events

• January 22 - Ashantis crush British forces in the Gold Coast
• Cimetiere de Montparnasse established
• The Dutch sign the Masang Agreement[?] temporarily ending hostilities in the Padri War[?]
• March 17 signing of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824.
• March 11 - The United States War Department[?] creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs[?] and Ely Parker[?] of the Seneca tribe becomes its first director.
• September 16 Charles X succeeds Louis XVIII as King of France
• November - Andrew Jackson receives more popular votes than John Quincy Adams in the U.S. presidential election
• December - John Quincy Adams defeats Andrew Jackson in U.S. presidential election by winnning more votes in the United States Electoral College[?]

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

• 1824 in literature:

Births

• January 8 - Wilkie Collins, novelist (+ 1889)
• January 21 - Thomas Stonewall Jackson, Confederate Army general
• March 2 - Bedrich Smetana, composer
• March 12 - Gustav Kirchhoff, physicist
• May 23 - Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general (+ 1881)
• September 4 - Anton Bruckner, composer
• October 5 - Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and historian
• December 14 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter
• George MacDonald, writer (+ 1905)

Deaths

• February 21 - Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Napoleon?s wife, Josephine
• April 19 - George Gordon, Lord Byron, poet
• May 26 - Capel Lofft, writer
• September 16 - Louis XVIII of France