1829

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Conversations with Eckermann

His Majesty's dominions, on which the sun never sets.

- Christopher North, Noctes Ambrosianae

I call upon you therefore to cast your eyes upon the wretchedness of your brethren, and to do your utmost to enlighten them go to work and enlighten your brethren! Let the Lord see you doing what you can to rescue them and yourselves from degradation.

- David Walker's appeal

It will be my sincere and constant desire to observe toward the Indian tribes within our limits a just and liberal policy, and to give that humane and considerate attention to their rights and their wants which is consistent with the habits of our Government and the feelings of our people.

- Andrew Jackson, from his inaugural address. See below.

Born in 1829:

• (approx). Apache chief Goyathlay, aka Geronimo.
• German mathematician Elwin Bruno Christoffel.
• German mathematician Heinrich Eduard Schroeter.
• German mathematician Moritz Benedikt Cantor.
• English mathematician Joseph Wolstenholme.
• Scottish meteorologist Alexander Buchan.
• German chemist Friedrich August von Stradonitz Kekulé.
• British chemist William Odling.
• British astronomer Norman Robert Pogson.
• American astronomer Asaph Hall.
• Chinese artist and calligrapher Zhao Zhiqian.
• German painter Anselm Feuerbach.
• English painter John Everett Millais.
• British painter Frederick Sandys.
• American sculptor John Rogers.
• Italian composer Gaetano Braga.
• Okinawan karate master Kosaku Matsumora.
• German pianist and composer Otto Goldschmidt.
• French Creole pianist and composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk, in New Orleans.
• Russian pianist and composer Anton Rubenstein.
• British travel writer, journalist, and politican Laurence Oliphant, in Cape Town.
• German literary critic, artist, poet and philosopher Friederich von Schegel.
• British writer and amateur landsape architect Udevale Price.
• British historian Samuel Rawson Gardiner.
• Serbian "prophet" Mitar Tarabich.
• William Booth and his future wife Catherine Mumford, founders of the Salvation Army, .
• American evangelist and hymnwriter John William McGarvey.
• English feminist Maria Rye.
• American feminist Jane Croly, in Leicestershire.
• Irish prostitute and missionary Eliza Jane Seymour, aka Laura Bell.
• Union general William Anderson Pile.
• Confederate general Alfred Mouton.
• American orator and politician Carl Schurz, author of a speech incorrectly thought to define jingoism.
• Future king Oskar II of Sweden and Norway.

• American statesman John Jay.
• Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel.
• French zoologist Jean Baptiste Lamarck, who formulated an early version of the theory of evolution.
• French painter Jean-Baptiste Regnault.
• Japanese wooblock artist Gototei Kunimaru.
• Chinese painter Gai Qi.
• Chinese writer Xi Peilan.
• Belgian composer François Joseph Gossec.
• English chemist Sir Humphrey Davy.
• British composer William Shield.
• French revolutionary politician Paul François Barras, who gave Napoleon Bonaparte the go-ahead to use artillery on the rioting Paris Sections in 1796.
• English physicist and Egyptologist Thomas Young.
• Irish murderer William Burke, hanged for digging up (or making) corpses to sell them to anatomists.
• Italian guitar virtuoso and composer Mauro Giuliani.
• Freed Fulbe slave "Prince" Abd al-Rahman Ibrahima, shortly after landing in Liberia.
• George Washington Adams, eldest son of John Quincy Adams, had visions and jumped off his ship in the middle of the Atlantic.
• Pope Leo XII.  The College of Cardinals meets and elects Francesco Xaviero Castiglioni; he will take the name Pius VIII.
• Chennamma, rani (queen) of Kittur, in British custody after defending against a British invasion.
• Mir Mahboob Ali Khan Bahadur Asaf Jah,  Nizam of Hyderabad and Berar. His son Nasir ud Daula Farkundah Ali sicceeds him.

• The St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences rejects Nikolai Lobachevsky's paper on non-Euclidean geometry.
• Felix Mendelssohn conducts the first performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. Matthew's Passion.  He also visits Fingal's cave in Scotland, an inspiration for his Hebrides Overture.
• James Mill's Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind is published.
• Sir Walter Scott's novel Anne of Geierstein appears.
• Vincenzo Bellini's operas La straniera and Zaira debut.
• Gioacchino Rossini's opera Guillaume Tell debuts.
• Hokusai paints 36 views of Mount Fuji.
• Nineteen-year-old Frederic Chopin leaves Poland for good, on a concert tour that will make him famous throughout Europe.
• Louis Daguerre and Nenri Niepce form a parnership to develop 'heliography'.
• Sir Robert Peel founds the London Metropolitan Police, known affectionately as 'bobbies', headquartered at Scotland Yard.
• William Austin Burt patents an early type of typewriter.
• Sylvester Graham promotes a special diet for men to adopt to control lust. Its main feature is a type of whole-wheat bread and a flat honey-flavored cracker.
• The Tremont Hotel opens in Boston; it is the first modern hotel.
• The United States is in an economic depression. Working-class whites are raised to believe that free blacks will take their jobs away. In Cincinnati, poor whites riot and do extensive damage to "Bucktown", the city ghetto.  Terrorized, half of the city's black people flee for Canada.
• David Walker issues an Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, calling for American slaves to rise against their masters.  Southern plantation owners go to great lengths to suppress any potential rebellion, which of course results in more violence.  The Georgia legislature puts a price on Walker's head.
• Samuel Cornish renames the first African-American newspaper, Freedom's Journal (to which Walker contributes),  The Rights of All.
• The idea of 'Colonization', shipping free blacks back to Africa, gains wide appeal among abolitionist circles.
• (March 4) Andrew Jackson is inaugurated as President of the United States. His inaugural ball is a mob scene; the place smells like cheese for weeks. To save money, Jackson begins using his own slaves instead of hired servants.
• Sam Houston is married, but his wife leaves him after seeing his war scars. Footloose, Houston travels to Oklahoma where Andrew Jackson has begun removing the Cherokee to; he becomes an honorary member of their tribe.  Back East, Harriet Beecher organizes a campaign to protest Jackson's actions.  The Cherokee Nation files suit because of Georgia's confiscation of their lands the previous year.
• Russia forces the Ottoman Empire to accept the Treaty of Adrianople.  The treaty gives Tsar Nicholas I Dobruja, Georgia, and Armenia, and autonomy for Wallachia, Moldavia, Serbia.  The Sultan also promises autonomy for Greece.
• The British raj forbids suttee (the burning of widows) in India; they also begin suppressing the Thuggee cult.
• Parliament repeals the 1673 Test Act and Roman Catholics may now hold public office again.
• Juan Manuel de Rosas becomes dictator over the Rio de la Plata confederation (the area around Buenos Aires; Argentina had not yet been formed).
• Venezuela secedes from Gran Colombia.
• Forces under Antonio José de Sucre, turn back a Peruvian invasion of Ecuador at the Battle of Tarqui.
• In a treaty with the Winnebagos, the United States takes away some of the Northen Illinois land it had granted them in an 1816 treaty.
• Spanish forces take Tampico in Mexico.
• Mexico abolishes slavery (except for Texas).
• Elizabeth Clarissa Lange and three other refugees from Haiti found a religious order in Baltimore with the help of Father Jacques Joubert.  The Oblate Sisters of Providence are the first religious order for African-American women; their mission included the first ever school for black girls.
• The first monument to George Washington is completed in Baltimore
• The Baltimore And Ohio Railroad begins construction with the world's first stone arch railroad bridge.
• The "Siamese Twins" Chang and Eng Bunker arrive in Boston from Siam.
• Louisiana moves its capital from New Orleans to Donaldsonville.
• Philipp Von Siebold is expelled form Japan after maps of the country are found in his possession.

1828 - 1829 - 1830

How they Were Made - 19th Century

Further reading:

www.earlyrepublic.net/yr/1829.htm

Created upon request. I feel so...used. so...cheap.

Board game published by Hartland Trefoil in the UK based on the railway boom of the 19th century. Players competed to make a fortune by building and operating railways across England and Wales (an expansion kit later added Scotland to the equation) and dealing in railway shares. The actual railway construction mecanics used a limited supply of hexagonal tiles placed on the map between companies' historical starting points with different sets showing increasingly complex layouts used as the game went on; trains were then run between towns on routes selected to maximise profits.

The game system was licensed to Avalon Hill, who produced an variant on a map of the United States under the name of 1830. It seems clear that the game influenced later computer games on the same subject, particularly Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon and its descendants.