Timelines of History Vol 7: 1800-1849 by Algis Ratnikas

Author:Algis Ratnikas [Ratnikas, Algis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Algis Ratnikas
Published: 2012-04-13T00:00:00+00:00

1834 Oct 16, In London the Houses of Parliament caught fire and many historic documents were burned. J.M.W. created two oil paintings of the burning of the Houses of Parliament.

(www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/england/london/parliament/barry.html) ( Econ, 9/29 / 0 7 , p. 90 )

1834 Oct, Constantine Samuel Rafinisque submitted an essay to the Royal Institute of France on the language of the Delaware Indians.

(NH, 10/96, p.16)

1834 Nov 1, The 1st published reference to poker was as Mississippi riverboat game.

(MC, 11/1/01)

1834 Nov 10, HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin sailed from Valparaiso.

(MC, 11/10/01)

1834 Nov 14, William Thomson entered Glasgow Univ. at 10 yrs 4 months.

(MC, 11/14/01)

1834 Nov 21, HMS Beagle anchored at Bay of San Carlos, Chile.

(MC, 11/21/01)

1834 Nov 23, Hector Berlioz's "Harold in Italy," premiered.

(MC, 11/23/01)

1834 Nov 25, Jean-Baptist Colyns, composer, was born.

(MC, 11/25/01)

1834 Nov 25, Delmonico's, one of NY's finest restaurants, provided a meal of soup, steak, coffee & half a pie for 12 cents.

(SFEC, 5/18/97, Z1 p.6)

1834 Nov, John Heckewelder, Moravian missionary, published a list of Lenape Indian names, a Delaware Indian tribe.

(NH, 10/96, p.16)

1834 Dec 3, 1st US dental society was organized in NY.

(MC, 12/3/01)

1834 Dec 10, Robert Peel (1788-1850) became prime minister of Britain after launching the first national election manifesto in British history.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Peel)

1834 Dec 23, Joseph Hansom of London received a patent for Hansom cabs.

(MC, 12/23/01)

1834 Dec 25, Charles Darwin celebrated Christmas on Beagle at Tres Montes, Chile.

(MC, 12/25/01)

1834 Dec 27, Charles Lamb (b.1775), English critic, poet, essayist, died. "No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference. It is the nativity of our common Adam."

(AP, 12/31/97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lamb)

1834 Dec 29, Thomas R. Malthus (b.1766), English vicar, economist ("Essay On Population"), died.

(Internet)

1834 Dec, Constantine Samuel Rafinisque submitted a supplement to the Royal Institute of France to his essay on the language of the Delaware Indians.

(NH, 10/96, p.16)

1834 James McNeill Whistler (d.1903), American painter and etcher, was born in Lowell Mass., the son of a civil engineer. He grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia, where his father was overseeing a railway line. He attended West Point and was expelled. He left the US for good at age 21 and painted beside Gustave Courbet. He worked in France and England after 1855. He painted "The White Girl."

(AAP, 1964)(WUD, 1994, p.1628)(WSJ, 5/31/95, p. A-14)

1834 Honore Daumier created his lithograph "The Legislative Belly."

(WSJ, 5/9/00, p.A24)

1834 Frederick Marryat authored the novel “Jacob Faithfully.” The term Shiver My Timbers!, an expletive denoting surprise or disbelief, was first seen in this book. It alluded to a ship's striking a rock or shoal so hard that her timbers shiver. In 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson found the term to be the perfect exclamation for the irascible Long John Silver: "So! Shiver me timbers, here's Jim Hawkins!" This stereotypical expletive became extremely popular with writers of sea yarns and Hollywood swashbucklers.

(www.answerbag.com/q_view.php/16871)

1834 "Turkey in the Straw" became a popular tune in the US.

(SFEC, 5/31/98, Z1 p.8)

1834 Gaetano Donizetti had the premier of his opera "Rosmonda d’Inghilterra," a story of Rosamond Clifford, who was put in a tower by her lover King Henry II.

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