In the year 1824, Simón Bolivar is proclaimed dictator of Peru (Feb 10), the United States War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs (Mar 11), the first permanent settlers arrive to construct the new city of Tallahassee, Florida’s new state capital (Apr 9), Beethoven’s 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna (May 7), Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement (Oct 21), Peruvian forces defeat the Spanish who by and by lose all of South America (Dec 9) - and all these fine people were born:

1824-0102 Robert Isidor Örn* lawyer/ mayor/statesman - Kuolemajärvi, Karjala, GD of Finland (1885/61) 1824-0107 Julia Kavanagh* Irish novelist - Thurles, Tipperary, Ireland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1877/53) 1824-0121 “Stonewall” Jackson* Confederate general - Clacksburg, VA USA (1863/39) 1824-0201 1824-0210 Thomas K. Beecher* Congregationalist preacher/school principal – Litchfield, CT USA (1900/76) 1824-0210 Samuel Plimsoll* politician/ social reformer - Bristol, England (1898/74) 1824-0220 1824-0223 Victoria Åberg* landscape painter/active in Germany - Loviisa, GD of Finland (1892/68) 1824-0228 Charles Blondin* tightrope walker - St Omer, Pas-de-Calais, Kingdom of France (1897/72) 1824-0302 Bedrich Smetana* Czech composer - Litomysl, Austria-Hungary (1884/60) 1824-0309 Leland Stanford* industrialist/tycoon/politician - Watervliet, NY USA (1893/69) 1824-0312 Louis Prang* American printer/lithographer/the “father of the American Christmas card” - Breslau, Prussia (1909/85) 1824-0313 Josef Trenkwald* Czech-Austrian painter - Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire (1897/73) 1824-0314 John Robson* journalist/ politician/Premier of the Province of British Columbia - Perth, Ontario, Upper Canada (1892/68) 1824-0326 Julie-Victoire Daubié* journalist/writer -  Bains-les-Bains, Kingdom of France (1874/50) 1824-0329 Ludwig Büchner* philosopher/physician - Darmstatdt, GD of Hesse (1899/75) 1824-0402 Thomas Armitage* physician/entrepreneur - Tilgate, Sussex, England (1890/66) 1824-0405 1824-0410 Julius Meinl I* Austrian businessman/founder of coffee manufacturer Julius Meinl AG - Graslitz, Bohemia (1914/90) 1824-0417 William McGaa* Scottish-American mountain man active in Colorado/lived with the Arapaho under the name Jack Jones - Wigtown, Scotland (1867/43) 1824-0420 1824-0430 1824-0508 William Walker* physician/lawyer/mercenary - Nashville, TN USA (1860/36) 1824-0523 Ambrose Burnside* railroad executive/inventor/industrialist - Liberty, IN USA (1881/57) 1824-0626 William Thomson* 1st Baron Kelvin/mathematical physicist (Kelvin scale)/ engineer - Belfast, Ireland (1907/83) 1824-0628 Paul Broca* physician/anatomist/anthropologist - Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, Gironde, Kingdom of France (1880/56) 1824-0701 Gustave Lambert* hydrographer - Grièges, Ain, Kingdom of France (1871/46) 1824-0807 Gideon T. Stewart* lawyer/ politician/temperance movement leader - Johnstown, NY USA (1909/84) 1824-0808 Maria Alexandrovna* Empress of Russia as the first wife and political adviser of Alexander II/one of the founders of the Russian Red Cross - Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Confederation (1880/55) 1824-0813 Victor Kullberg* horologist/one of London’s most famous watchmakers - Visby, Gotland, Sweden (1890/65) 1824-0904 Anton Bruckner* Austrian composer - Ansfelden, Austria-Hungary (1896/72) 1824-1006 Thomas Mundy Peterson* the first African American voter after the passage of the 15th Amendment - Metuchen, NJ USA (1904/79) 1824-1027 Edward Maitland* humanitarian writer/occultist - Ipswich, England (1897/72) 1824-1210 George MacDonald* author/poet/pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature - Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (1905/80) 1824-0 1824-0 1824-0 Updated 2025-0429 Helsinki - Vienna Looking for another year? Just click here!