1824

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s - 1820s - 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s

Years: 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 - 1824 - 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829

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Events

• January 22 - Ashantis crush British forces in the Gold Coast
• Cimetiere de Montparnasse established
• The Dutch sign the Masang Agreement[?] temporarily ending hostilities in the Padri War[?]
• March 17 signing of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824.
• March 11 - The United States War Department[?] creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs[?] and Ely Parker[?] of the Seneca tribe becomes its first director.
• September 16 Charles X succeeds Louis XVIII as King of France
• November - Andrew Jackson receives more popular votes than John Quincy Adams in the U.S. presidential election
• December - John Quincy Adams defeats Andrew Jackson in U.S. presidential election by winnning more votes in the United States Electoral College[?]

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

• 1824 in literature:

Births

• January 8 - Wilkie Collins, novelist (+ 1889)
• January 21 - Thomas Stonewall Jackson, Confederate Army general
• March 2 - Bedrich Smetana, composer
• March 12 - Gustav Kirchhoff, physicist
• May 23 - Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general (+ 1881)
• September 4 - Anton Bruckner, composer
• October 5 - Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and historian
• December 14 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter
• George MacDonald, writer (+ 1905)

Deaths

• February 21 - Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Napoleon?s wife, Josephine
• April 19 - George Gordon, Lord Byron, poet
• May 26 - Capel Lofft, writer
• September 16 - Louis XVIII of France

Common misspelling and questions (FAQ)

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In guilty splendour shake the public ways; And verse of mine shall never brand the wretch And chaste themselves, are not ashamed to own. Not to be passed; and she that had renounced By all that prized it; not for prudery's sake, 'Twas hard, perhaps, on here and there a waif But was a wholesome rigour in the main, That purity, whose loss was loss of all. And judged offenders well. Then he that sharped, Was marked and shunned as odious. He that sold His every nerve in action and at stretch, The price of his default. But now,--yes, now, So liberal in construction, and so rich That they are safe, sinners of either sex, Well equipaged, is ticket good enough Hypocrisy, detest her as we may May claim this merit still--that she admits And thus gives virtue indirect applause; Where vice has such allowance, that her shifts Long since; with many an arrow deep infixt To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. Been hurt by the archers. In his side he bore, With gentle force soliciting the darts Since then, with few associates, in remote My former partners of the peopled scene, Here much I ruminate, as much I may, Than once, and others of a life to come. Each in his own delusions; they are lost .