In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.

* 1824 – Maria Alexandrovna, German wife of Alexander II of Russia ( d. 1880 )

* 1824 – John Chisum, American cattle baron ( d. 1884 )

Several of Alexander's works were published in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, Venice, 1495 – 1498 ; his De Fato and De Anima were printed along with the works of Themistius at Venice ( 1534 ); the former work, which has been translated into Latin by Grotius and also by Schulthess, was edited by J. C. Orelli, Zürich, 1824 ; and his commentaries on the Metaphysica by H. Bonitz, Berlin, 1847.

* 1824 – Greek War of Independence: Constantine Kanaris leads a Greek fleet to victory against Ottoman and Egyptian ships in the Battle of Samos.

* 1824 – The Battle of Kos is fought between Turkish and Greek forces.

* Constitution of 1824 – the first Brazilian constitution, enacted by Dom Pedro I.

* Brazilian War of Independence ( 1822 – 1824 ): Series of military campaigns that had as objective to cement Brazilian sovereignty and end Portuguese resistance.

#*** Joseph Lucien Charles Napoléon Bonaparte ( 1824 – 1865 )

A more successful " New Version " by Bishop Mark Hildesley ( 1698 – 1772 ) was in use until 1824 when English liturgy became universal on the island.

In eight years of active service as an officer, he served two and a half years in a surveying ship in the Mediterranean ( 1818 – 21 ), one and a half years in a surveying sloop in the English Channel and off the coast of Ireland ( 1823 – 24 ), and one and a half years as Surveyor of the frigate during a voyage ( 1824 – 26 ) to and from the Hawaiian Islands ( then known as the " Sandwich islands ").

**** Orléans-Montpensier, then Orléans-Galliera ( 1824 – present )

** Louis XVIII ( 1814 – 1815, 1815 – 1824 )

** Charles X ( 1824 – 1830 )

* Louis XVIII ( 1795 – 1824 )

* Charles X ( 1824 – 1836 )

Dickens's protégé, Wilkie Collins ( 1824 – 1889 )— sometimes referred to as the " grandfather of English detective fiction "— is credited with the first great mystery novel, The Woman in White.

* 1907 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist ( b. 1824 )

* 1824 – United States presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

The first ten volumes ( 1819 – 1824 ) were published under the joint editorship of Brewster and Jameson, the remaining four volumes ( 1825 – 1826 ) being edited by Jameson alone.

* February 8 – Winfield Scott Hancock, American general ( b. 1824 )

Winfield Scott Hancock ( February 14, 1824 – February 9, 1886 ) was a career U. S. Army officer and the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1880.

Winfield Scott Hancock and his identical twin brother Hilary Baker Hancock were born on February 14, 1824, in Montgomery Square, Pennsylvania, a hamlet just northwest of Philadelphia in present-day Montgomery Township.

* Winfield Scott Hancock ( 1824 – 1886 ), American Civil War Union general named after the above

" In addition to the various works of Brewster already mentioned, the following may be added: Notes and Introduction to Carlyle's translation of Legendre's Elements of Geometry ( 1824 ); Treatise on Optics ( 1831 ); Letters on Natural Magic, addressed to Sir Walter Scott ( 1832 ); The Martyrs of Science, or the Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler ( 1841 ); More Worlds than One ( 1854 ).

In 1824, the Morris Canal and Banking Company was chartered with John Scott of Powerville, an important commissioner.

* John Scott, Jr ( July 24, 1824 – November 29, 1896 )-Member of the United States Senate

Scott wrote about the town in his 1824 novel, St. Ronan's Well.

Hovell published two pamphlets Reply to " A Brief Statement of Facts in Connection with an Overland Expedition from Lake George to Port Phillip in 1824 ", and an Answer to the Preface to the Second Edition of Mr Hamilton Hume's " A Brief Statement of Facts ", ( for a balanced discussion of the merits of the case see paper by professor Sir Ernest Scott in Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol.

* John Scott ( Iowa politician ) ( 1824 – 1903 ), Lieutenant Governor of Iowa

* John Scott ( Pennsylvania ) ( 1824 – 1896 ), lawyer, U. S. Senator for Pennsylvania

* George Byng Scott ( 1824 – 1886 ), Administrator of the Northern Territory of Australia from 1863 to 1876

* Thomas Scott Preston ( 1824 – 1891 ) Roman Catholic Vicar General of New York

In 1824 Sir Walter Scott published Redgauntlet.

She is the subject of a novel: Redgauntlet ( 1824 ) by Sir Walter Scott.

Redgauntlet ( 1824 ) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in Dumfries, Scotland in 1765, and described by Magnus Magnusson ( a point first made by Andrew Lang ) as " in a sense, the most autobiographical of Scott's novels.

It was in his drawing-room that Scott and Byron first met, and here, in 1824, after the death of Lord Byron, that the manuscript of his memoirs, considered by Gifford unfit for publication, was destroyed.

Sir Walter Scott, who favored the bildungsroman and open plots, wrote in his " Prefatory Memoir to Richardson " to The Novels of Samuel Richardson ( 1824 ):

He maintained that Scott was free because he had been held illegally as a slave while resident in a free state, according to the 28-year-old precedent set in the 1824 ruling of " once free always free " in Winny v. Whitesides.

The historical ships made by Indian shipbuilders included HMS Asia ( 1824 ) ( commanded by Edward Codrington during the Battle of Navarino in 1827 ), the frigate HMS Cornwallis ( 1813 ) ( onboard which the Treaty of Nanking was signed in 1842 ), and the HMS Minden ( on which The Star Spangled Banner was composed by Francis Scott Key ).

* John Hancock ( Texas politician ) ( 1824 – 1893 )

John Hancock ( October 24, 1824 – July 19, 1893 ) was U. S. judge and politician.