Major Events
- Jun 19 Robert Peel introduces the Metropolitan Police Act 1829 into Parliament to establish a unified police force for London, the city's 1st modern police force
- Jul 23 William Austin Burt patents America's first "typographer" (typewriter)
- Sep 29 The first units of the London Metropolitan Police appear on the streets of the British capital, the city's 1st modern police force
- Dec 4 Britain outlaws "suttee" in India, a Hindu practice where a widow burns herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre
- More 1829 Events
Catherine Booth
Levi Strauss
William Booth
Geronimo
Chester A. Arthur
Anton RubinsteinMore People Born in 1829
John Jay
Jean-Baptiste LamarckMore 1829 Deaths
Andrew Jackson
Arthur Wellesley