January 27 – Author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe first elaborates on his vision of Weltliteratur (world literature), in a letter to Johann Peter Eckermann, declaring his belief that "poetry is the universal possession of mankind", and that "the epoch of world literature is at hand, and each must work to hasten its coming."[3]
February 28 – The
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in the United States offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
Shrigley abduction: Ellen Turner, a wealthy 15-year-old heiress from
Cheshire in England, is
abducted by
Edward Gibbon Wakefield. On May 14, Wakefield, his brother and a servant are sentenced to three years' imprisonment for the crime. Wakefield later becomes politically active in the
colonisation of New Zealand.
The new state constitution for the Mexican state of
Coahuila y Tejas is ratified, including a phasing-out of slavery in its Article 13, which declares that "From and after the promulgation of the constitution in the capital of each district, no one shall be born a slave in the state, and after six months the introduction of slaves under any pretext shall not be permitted."[4] The prohibition of importing slaves from the United States is lifted when Texas declares independence in 1836, and the Republic of Texas Constitution will provide specifically that Africans and "the descendants of Africans" will not be considered "citizens of the republic".
The predecessor of
Qasr El Eyni Hospital and Cairo University School of Medicine is established in
Egypt under the direction of
Antoine Clot as the first medical school in the region.[5][6]
March 16 – Freedom's Journal, the first African-American owned and published newspaper in the United States, is founded in New York City by
John Russwurm.
March 26 – German composer
Ludwig van Beethoven dies in
Vienna, after a prolonged illness. Thousands of citizens line the streets for the funeral procession 3 days later.
May 1 –
Georg Ohm publishes Die galvanische Kette, mathematisch bearbeitet (tr., The Galvanic Circuit Investigated Mathematically) in which
Ohm's law appears for the first time.
June 4 – French inventor
Joseph Niépce sends a package to
Louis Daguerre revealing the existence of his invention, "heliography", where an image can be reproduced onto a pewter plate and then reprinted.[10] In 1829, the two will begin a partnership, and Daguerre will perfect Niépce's photographic process to reproduce images more quickly.
September 20 – A petition for a land grant for 215 acres on the north bank of
Rio Grande, just across from Paso del Norte (modern-day
Ciudad Juárez), is approved; the first residence is built on what is modern-day
El Paso, Texas.
December 20 – Mexico passes its first "expulsion law", providing for citizens of Spain to be expelled within the next six months, and to remain barred from re-entry until the Kingdom of Spain recognizes Mexico's
1810 declaration of independence. Ultimately, because of all the exemptions within the expulsion act, only 1,779 of the 6,610 Spaniards are required to leave.[17]
^Allin, Michael (1999). Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris. Delta Books.
ISBN0-385-33411-7.
^"A Photo-engraving of 1826", in The Process Photogram and Illustrator (January 1905), p82
^John Frost, History of Ancient and Modern Greece (Lincoln and Edmands, 1831) p355
^Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot, Egypt in the Reign of Muhammad Ali (Cambridge University Press, 1984) p208
^Harrison, John (2009). Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain and America: The Quest for the New Moral World. London: Routledge. p. 35.
ISBN9780203092354.
^Billington, James H. (1999). Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. p. 245.
ISBN9780765804716.
^Williams, Raymond (2014). "Socialism". Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. Oxford University Press. p. 224.
^Gilles Jacoud, Political Economy and Industrialism: Banks in Saint-Simonian Economic Thought (Routledge, 2010)
^Timothy E. Anna, Forging Mexico, 1821-1835 (University of Nebraska Press, 2001) p203
^"Hautausmaita". Hautausmaita (in Finnish). Archived from
the original on May 24, 2021. Retrieved May 24, 2021.
January 27 – Author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe first elaborates on his vision of Weltliteratur (world literature), in a letter to Johann Peter Eckermann, declaring his belief that "poetry is the universal possession of mankind", and that "the epoch of world literature is at hand, and each must work to hasten its coming."[3]
February 28 – The
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in the United States offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
Shrigley abduction: Ellen Turner, a wealthy 15-year-old heiress from
Cheshire in England, is
abducted by
Edward Gibbon Wakefield. On May 14, Wakefield, his brother and a servant are sentenced to three years' imprisonment for the crime. Wakefield later becomes politically active in the
colonisation of New Zealand.
The new state constitution for the Mexican state of
Coahuila y Tejas is ratified, including a phasing-out of slavery in its Article 13, which declares that "From and after the promulgation of the constitution in the capital of each district, no one shall be born a slave in the state, and after six months the introduction of slaves under any pretext shall not be permitted."[4] The prohibition of importing slaves from the United States is lifted when Texas declares independence in 1836, and the Republic of Texas Constitution will provide specifically that Africans and "the descendants of Africans" will not be considered "citizens of the republic".
The predecessor of
Qasr El Eyni Hospital and Cairo University School of Medicine is established in
Egypt under the direction of
Antoine Clot as the first medical school in the region.[5][6]
March 16 – Freedom's Journal, the first African-American owned and published newspaper in the United States, is founded in New York City by
John Russwurm.
March 26 – German composer
Ludwig van Beethoven dies in
Vienna, after a prolonged illness. Thousands of citizens line the streets for the funeral procession 3 days later.
May 1 –
Georg Ohm publishes Die galvanische Kette, mathematisch bearbeitet (tr., The Galvanic Circuit Investigated Mathematically) in which
Ohm's law appears for the first time.
June 4 – French inventor
Joseph Niépce sends a package to
Louis Daguerre revealing the existence of his invention, "heliography", where an image can be reproduced onto a pewter plate and then reprinted.[10] In 1829, the two will begin a partnership, and Daguerre will perfect Niépce's photographic process to reproduce images more quickly.
September 20 – A petition for a land grant for 215 acres on the north bank of
Rio Grande, just across from Paso del Norte (modern-day
Ciudad Juárez), is approved; the first residence is built on what is modern-day
El Paso, Texas.
December 20 – Mexico passes its first "expulsion law", providing for citizens of Spain to be expelled within the next six months, and to remain barred from re-entry until the Kingdom of Spain recognizes Mexico's
1810 declaration of independence. Ultimately, because of all the exemptions within the expulsion act, only 1,779 of the 6,610 Spaniards are required to leave.[17]
^Allin, Michael (1999). Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris. Delta Books.
ISBN0-385-33411-7.
^"A Photo-engraving of 1826", in The Process Photogram and Illustrator (January 1905), p82
^John Frost, History of Ancient and Modern Greece (Lincoln and Edmands, 1831) p355
^Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot, Egypt in the Reign of Muhammad Ali (Cambridge University Press, 1984) p208
^Harrison, John (2009). Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain and America: The Quest for the New Moral World. London: Routledge. p. 35.
ISBN9780203092354.
^Billington, James H. (1999). Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. p. 245.
ISBN9780765804716.
^Williams, Raymond (2014). "Socialism". Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. Oxford University Press. p. 224.
^Gilles Jacoud, Political Economy and Industrialism: Banks in Saint-Simonian Economic Thought (Routledge, 2010)
^Timothy E. Anna, Forging Mexico, 1821-1835 (University of Nebraska Press, 2001) p203
^"Hautausmaita". Hautausmaita (in Finnish). Archived from
the original on May 24, 2021. Retrieved May 24, 2021.