1829

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century
Decades:	20s BC 10s BC 0s BC – 0s – 10s 20s 30s
Years:	1826 1827 1828 – 1829 – 1830 1831 1832

1829 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science
Sports – Rail Transport
Countries: Australia – Canada – France – Germany – Ireland – Mexico – Netherlands – New Zealand – Norway – South Africa – Spain – UK – USA
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

For the game, see: 1829 (board game).

Year 1829 (MDCCCXXIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1829

January 19:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

January 19 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.
March 4 – Andrew Jackson succeeds John Quincy Adams as the 7th President of the United States of America.
March 22 – Greece receives autonomy from the Ottoman Empire. This effectively ends the Greek War of Independence. Greece continues to seek full independence through diplomatic negotiations with the Empire as well as with Russia, France and Britain.
March 31 – Pope Pius VIII succeeds Pope Leo XII as the 253rd Pope.
April 1 – Vicente Guerrero becomes the president of Mexico.
April 4 – The Mexican city of Cuautla, Morelos is founded.
May 6 – The patent for an instrument called the Accordion is applied for by Cyrill Demian (Officially approved on May 23.)
June 1 – The Philadelphia Inquirer is founded as The Pennsylvania Inquirer.
June 3 – The Swan River Colony (later to become the cities of Perth and Fremantle) is founded in Western Australia. This secures the western 'third' of the Australian landmass for the British.
June 5 – Slave trade: The HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
June 10 – The Oxford University Boat Club wins the very first Boat race. [1]

July 2 – Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829: Russian Field-Marshal Hans Karl von Diebitsch launches the Transbalkan offensive, which brings the Russian army within 68 km of Istanbul.
July 23 – In the United States, William Burt obtains the first Patent for a writing mechanism (see Typewriter).
August 8 – France: The Prince de Polignac succeeds the Vicomte de Martignac as Prime Minister of France.
August 10 – First ascent of Finsteraarhorn, the highest summit of the Bernese Alps.
August 12 – Mrs. Helen Dance, wife of the captain of the ship Sulphur, cuts down a tree to mark the day of the founding of the town of Perth, Western Australia.
September 16 – Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829: The Treaty of Adrianople gains for Russia some territory at the mouth of the Danube and along the eastern coast of the Black Sea.
October 1 – South Africa: South African College is founded.
October 8 – Rail transport: Stephenson's The Rocket wins The Rainhill Trials.
November 30 – The original Welland Canal opens for a trial run with a ceremony at Port Dalhousie.
December 4 – India: In the face of fierce opposition, British Lord William Bentinck carries a regulation declaring that all who abet Suttee in India are guilty of culpable Homicide.

Religious freedom is restored in Ireland (see History of Ireland).
The Chalmers University of Technology is founded.
The Metropolitan Police Act 1829 is passed, establishing the first modern police force, the Metropolitan Police Service ("bobbies") of London.