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:
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(approx). Apache chief Goyathlay, aka Geronimo.
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German mathematician Elwin Bruno Christoffel.
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German mathematician Heinrich Eduard Schroeter.
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German mathematician Moritz Benedikt Cantor.
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English mathematician Joseph Wolstenholme.
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Scottish meteorologist Alexander Buchan.
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German chemist Friedrich August von Stradonitz
Kekulé.
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British chemist William Odling.
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British astronomer Norman Robert Pogson.
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American astronomer Asaph Hall.
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Chinese artist and calligrapher Zhao Zhiqian.
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German painter Anselm Feuerbach.
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English painter John Everett Millais.
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British painter Frederick Sandys.
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American sculptor John Rogers.
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Italian composer Gaetano Braga.
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Okinawan karate master Kosaku Matsumora.
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German pianist and composer Otto Goldschmidt.
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French Creole pianist and composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk,
in New Orleans.
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Russian pianist and composer Anton Rubenstein.
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British travel writer, journalist, and politican Laurence Oliphant,
in Cape Town.
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German literary critic, artist, poet and philosopher Friederich von Schegel.
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British writer and amateur landsape architect Udevale Price.
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British historian Samuel Rawson Gardiner.
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Serbian "prophet" Mitar Tarabich.
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William Booth and his future wife Catherine
Mumford, founders of the Salvation Army, .
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American evangelist and hymnwriter John William McGarvey.
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English feminist Maria Rye.
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American feminist Jane Croly, in Leicestershire.
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Irish prostitute and missionary Eliza Jane Seymour, aka Laura
Bell.
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Union general William Anderson Pile.
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Confederate general Alfred Mouton.
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American orator and politician Carl Schurz, author of a speech incorrectly thought to define jingoism.
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Future king Oskar II of Sweden and Norway.
Died in 1829:
Events of 1829:
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The St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences rejects Nikolai Lobachevsky's paper on non-Euclidean geometry.
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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.
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James Mill's Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind is
published.
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Sir Walter Scott's novel Anne of Geierstein appears.
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Vincenzo Bellini's operas La straniera and Zaira
debut.
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Gioacchino Rossini's opera Guillaume Tell debuts.
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Hokusai paints 36 views of Mount Fuji.
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Nineteen-year-old Frederic Chopin leaves Poland for good, on
a concert tour that will make him famous throughout Europe.
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Louis Daguerre and Nenri Niepce form a parnership to develop 'heliography'.
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Sir Robert Peel founds the London Metropolitan Police, known
affectionately as 'bobbies', headquartered at Scotland Yard.
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William Austin Burt patents an early type of typewriter.
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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.
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The Tremont Hotel opens in Boston; it is the first modern hotel.
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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.
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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.
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Samuel Cornish renames the first African-American newspaper, Freedom's
Journal (to which Walker contributes), The Rights of
All.
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The idea of 'Colonization', shipping free blacks back to Africa, gains
wide appeal among abolitionist circles.
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(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.
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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.
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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.
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The British raj forbids suttee (the burning of widows) in India;
they also begin suppressing the Thuggee cult.
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Parliament repeals the 1673 Test Act and Roman Catholics may
now hold public office again.
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Juan Manuel de Rosas becomes dictator over the Rio de la Plata
confederation (the area around Buenos Aires; Argentina had not yet
been formed).
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Venezuela secedes from Gran Colombia.
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Forces under Antonio José de Sucre, turn back a Peruvian invasion
of Ecuador at the Battle of Tarqui.
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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.
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Spanish forces take Tampico in Mexico.
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Mexico abolishes slavery (except for Texas).
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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.
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The first monument to George Washington is
completed in Baltimore
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The Baltimore And Ohio Railroad begins construction with the
world's first stone arch railroad bridge.
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The "Siamese Twins" Chang and Eng Bunker arrive in Boston
from Siam.
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Louisiana moves its capital from New Orleans to Donaldsonville.
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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
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