This Year in History:
1834
Discover what happened in this year with HISTORY’s summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths.
Escalating the tensions that would lead to rebellion and war, the Mexican government imprisons the Texas colonizer Stephen Austin in Mexico City. Stephen Fuller Austin was a reluctant revolutionary. His…
On this day in 1834, Andrew Jackson becomes the first president to use federal troops to quell labor unrest. Workers building the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal were rebelling because of…
Gottlieb Daimler, who in 1890 founded an engine and car company bearing his name, is born in Schorndorf, Germany, on this day in 1834. As a teenager, Daimler apprenticed to…
In England, six English agricultural laborers are sentenced to seven years of banishment to Australia’s New South Wales penal colony for their trade union activities. In 1833, after several years…
The great western explorer and conservationist John Wesley Powell is born near Palmyra, New York. The son of a Methodist minister, Powell imbibed his father’s theology as a boy. However,…
On March 28, 1834, President Andrew Jackson is censured by Congress for refusing to turn over documents. Jackson was the first president to suffer this formal disapproval from Congress. During…
On April 10, 1834, a fire at the LaLaurie mansion in New Orleans, Louisiana, leads to the discovery of a torture chamber where enslaved workers are routinely brutalized by Delphine…
On this day in 1834, 19‑year‑old Richard Henry Dana, author of Two Years Before the Mast, begins his two‑year stint as a seaman. Dana was born in Cambridge and enrolled…
On this day in 1834, future President Franklin Pierce marries a petite and devout Calvinist named Jane Appleton. Her brother‑in‑law officiated at the wedding. Jane and Franklin had three sons,…
