March 29 – In
Cairo, 4,000 people are killed in a fire, including people killed by the explosion of gunpowder housed at the palace of Egypt's Ottoman Governor
Mehmet Ali.[3]
April 9 – The first permanent settlers arrive to construct the new city of
Tallahassee, Florida, selected to be the capital of the
Florida Territory newly acquired from the Kingdom of Spain; the area has been selected because it is roughly equidistant from the territory's main cities,
Pensacola and
St. Augustine.[7]
April 19 –
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron), the British poet, dies at the age of 36 in the Greek city of
Missolonghi, where he had taken ill while making plans to liberate the Greeks from Ottoman rule, "not in combat, but of a fever caught in the unhealthy conditions at Missolonghi... exacerbated, it is generally agreed, by the over-zealous actions of his doctors, who
bled him excessively."[8]
May 7 –
Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (the "Choral") premieres at the
Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna. The deaf composer has to be turned around on the stage to witness the enthusiastic audience reaction.
July 13 – King
Kamehameha II of Hawaii dies of
measles, during a visit to the United Kingdom, before he can meet with King George IV.[10] Because of the slow communications of the era, news of the King's death does not reach Hawaii until the following March; his funeral would then take place on May 11, 1825, and subsequently he was succeeded by his brother
Kamehameha III.
July 19 – Don
Agustín de Iturbide, who had formerly been
President of Mexico and then proclaimed himself Emperor Agustin the First, until being overthrown on March 19, 1823, is executed by a firing squad in the city of
Padilla, five days after returning from exile in England.[11][12]
November 19 [
O.S. November 7] – In the
worst flood to date in
Saint Petersburg, water rises 421 centimetres (166 in) above normal, and 200 lose their lives.
November 30 – The first sod is turned in
Ontario for the first of four
Welland Canals (the canal opens for a trial run five years later to the day).
^Walford, Cornelius, ed. (1876). "Fires, Great". The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance. C. and E. Layton. p. 71.
March 29 – In
Cairo, 4,000 people are killed in a fire, including people killed by the explosion of gunpowder housed at the palace of Egypt's Ottoman Governor
Mehmet Ali.[3]
April 9 – The first permanent settlers arrive to construct the new city of
Tallahassee, Florida, selected to be the capital of the
Florida Territory newly acquired from the Kingdom of Spain; the area has been selected because it is roughly equidistant from the territory's main cities,
Pensacola and
St. Augustine.[7]
April 19 –
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron), the British poet, dies at the age of 36 in the Greek city of
Missolonghi, where he had taken ill while making plans to liberate the Greeks from Ottoman rule, "not in combat, but of a fever caught in the unhealthy conditions at Missolonghi... exacerbated, it is generally agreed, by the over-zealous actions of his doctors, who
bled him excessively."[8]
May 7 –
Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (the "Choral") premieres at the
Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna. The deaf composer has to be turned around on the stage to witness the enthusiastic audience reaction.
July 13 – King
Kamehameha II of Hawaii dies of
measles, during a visit to the United Kingdom, before he can meet with King George IV.[10] Because of the slow communications of the era, news of the King's death does not reach Hawaii until the following March; his funeral would then take place on May 11, 1825, and subsequently he was succeeded by his brother
Kamehameha III.
July 19 – Don
Agustín de Iturbide, who had formerly been
President of Mexico and then proclaimed himself Emperor Agustin the First, until being overthrown on March 19, 1823, is executed by a firing squad in the city of
Padilla, five days after returning from exile in England.[11][12]
November 19 [
O.S. November 7] – In the
worst flood to date in
Saint Petersburg, water rises 421 centimetres (166 in) above normal, and 200 lose their lives.
November 30 – The first sod is turned in
Ontario for the first of four
Welland Canals (the canal opens for a trial run five years later to the day).
^Walford, Cornelius, ed. (1876). "Fires, Great". The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance. C. and E. Layton. p. 71.