Major Events
- Jan 1 German Tolunie goes into effect
- Jan 3 The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City.
- Jan 5 Kiowa Indians record this as the night the stars fell
- Jan 29 President Jackson orders first use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute
- Feb 3 Wake Forest University is established in North Carolina
- Feb 18 1st US labor newspaper, "The Man", published, NYC
- Feb 26 1st US interstate crime compact (NY-NJ) ratified
- Mar 6 Toronto incorporated with William Lyon Mackenzie as its 1st mayor
- Mar 9 French Foreign Legion is founded
- Mar 16 Charles Darwin, aboard HMS Beagle, anchors in the recently British-acquired Falklands Islands for the first time
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Did You Know?
Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union
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Famous Weddings in 1834
- Mar 31 Religious leader Brigham Young (32) weds herbalist Mary Ann Angell (27)
- Sep 4 American abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison (28) weds Helen Eliza Benson (22), in Boston, Massachusetts
- Oct 30 Anne Lister marries Anne Walker by taking Holy Communion together at Holy Trinity Church, York, England (not officially recognised)
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