1829 - What happened in 1829 ?

January 1829

Monday 19:

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.

April 1829

Monday 13:

The British Parliament grants freedom of religion to Roman Catholics

May 1829

Saturday 02:

After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia.

June 1829

Friday 05:

HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.

Wednesday 10:

First Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge.

July 1829

Thursday 23:

In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the first typewriter.

September 1829

Wednesday 16:

The Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829, ends with the signing of the Treaty of Adrianople (Edirne)

Tuesday 29:

London's reorganized police force, the Metropolitan Police, becomes the first official police department in the world.

October 1829

Thursday 01:

South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; later to become the University of Cape Town.

December 1829

Friday 04:

In the face of fierce opposition, British Lord William Bentinck carries a regulation declaring that all who abetted suttee in India were guilty of culpable homicide.