* 1757 – Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer ( d. 1834 )

* 1834 – Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty ( d. 1904 )

* 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.

* 1834 – Charles Lennox Richardson, English merchant ( d. 1862 )

* 1834 – The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.

* 1834 – John Venn, English mathematician ( d. 1923 )

" Tradition, reported by George Chalmers in his Caledonia ( 1807 ), and by the New Statistical Account ( 1834 – 1845 ), has it that the early-historic mound of the Cunninghillock by Inverurie is the burial place of Áed.

Sir Robert Peel, Bt., Prime Minister 1834 – 35, 1841 – 46

* Martin Marty ( 1834 – 96 )

* Roger Vaughan ( 1834 – 83 )

* Guglielmo Sanfelice d ' Acquavilla ( 1834 – 97 )

The discovery of the chemical elements has a long history from the days of alchemy and culminating in the creation of the periodic table of the chemical elements by Dmitri Mendeleev ( 1834 – 1907 ) and later discoveries of some synthetic elements.

** Miguel I ( 1828 – 1834 )

Charles Farrar Browne ( April 26, 1834 – March 6, 1867 ) was a United States humor writer, better known under his nom de plume, Artemus Ward.

* Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( 1772 – 1834 ), English poet and philosopher

* 1775 – François-Adrien Boïeldieu, French composer ( d. 1834 )

* 1834 – Léon Walras, French economist ( d. 1910 )

Bone die found at Cantonment Clinch ( 1823 – 1834 ), an American fort used in the American Civil War by both Confederate States of America | Confederate and Union ( American Civil War ) | Union forces at separate times.

* 1897 – Griffith Rhys Jones, Welsh conductor ( b. 1834 )

* 1834 – The Zollverein ( German Customs Union ) begins the first regular census in Germany.

* 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

Lithograph of the President's House, Thornton Hall, Dartmouth Hall, and Wentworth Hall, circa 1834. Presidents Ernest Fox Nichols ( 1909 – 16 ) and Ernest Martin Hopkins ( 1916 – 45 ) continued Tucker's trend of modernization, further improving campus facilities and introducing selective admissions in the 1920s.

* Carl Euler, ( 1834 – 1901 ), biologist

Considering the governor's act a personal rebuff, he aired his feelings in The Gazette on August 26, 1834::

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel ( February 16, 1834 – August 9, 1919 ),

The results of these inquiries contributed greatly to the abolition of slavery as of August 1, 1834, throughout the British Empire.

" Another emphasis on the musicality of the poem came in August 1834, with Henry Nelson Coleridge analysis in the Quarterly Review: " In some of the smaller pieces, as the conclusion of the ' Kubla Khan ', for example, not only the lines by themselves are musical, but the whole passage sounds all at once as an outburst or crash of harps in the still air of autumn.

Much of Paganini's playing ( and his violin composition ) was influenced by two violinists, Pietro Locatelli ( 1693 – 1746 ) and August Duranowski ( 1770 – 1834 ).

In this book, the son claims that James Chalmers first produced an essay describing and advocating a stamp in August 1834.

Slavery was abolished by an Act of Parliament that became law on 1 August 1834.

On 1 August 1834, an unarmed group of mainly elderly blacks being addressed by the Governor at Government House about the new laws, began chanting: " Pas de six ans.

On 1 August 1838 emancipation which had theoretically been granted to the slaves in 1834 became a reality.

* August 22 – Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University ( b. 1834 )

* August 16 – James Hector, Scottish geologist ( b. 1834 )

* August 9 – Thomas Telford, British engineer & architect ( d. 1834 )

* August 2 – William Campbell, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Upper Canada and a resident of Toronto ( d. 1834 )

* Uggero il danese ( 11 August 1834, Teatro Riccardi, Bergamo )

The abolition of slavery occurred on 1 August 1834, and to this day it is celebrated by a three day public holiday on the first Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in August in the British Virgin Islands.

Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet ( 5 February 17882 July 1850 ) was a British Conservative statesman, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 December 1834 to 8 April 1835, and again from 30 August 1841 to 29 June 1846.

Friedrich Leopold August Weismann ( 17 January 1834 – 5 November 1914 ) was a German evolutionary biologist.

* Kee-too-way-how (‘ Sounding With Flying Wings ’, better known as Alexander Cayen dit Boudreau, Chief of the Parklands or Willow Cree at Muskeg Lake, born 1834 St. Boniface, Manitoba, son of Pierre Narcisse Cayen dit Boudreau and Adelaide Catherine Arcand (‘ Kaseweetin ’), though he was of Métis descent he became chief of the Willow Cree and the Métis, who were living with the Cree, brother of Petequakey (‘ Isidore Cayen dit Boudreau ’), lived along Duck Lake, signed 1876 Treaty 6 and settled in a reserve at Muskeg Lake-that was later named after his brother Petequakey-but left the reserve in 1880 and lived again in the following years close to St. Laurent de Grandin mission, played a prominent role during the Northwest Rebellion of 1885 in which he participated in every battle, served also as an emissary of the Métis leader Gabriel Dumont to ask the Assiniboine for support, on 23 May 1885 he also submitted the declaration of surrender of Pitikwahanapiwiyin (' Poundmaker ') to General Middleton, was captured on the 1st June 1885, in the subsequent trial of Kee-too-way-how at Regina, Louis Cochin testified that he and the carters in the camp of Pitikwahanapiwiyin survived only thanks to the intercession by Kee-way-too-how and its people, despite the positive testimony, he was on 14 August 1885 sentenced to imprisonment for seven years for his involvement in the Métis rebellion, died 1886 ).

Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering ( August 5, 1834 – January 26, 1918 ) was a German physiologist who did much research into color vision and spatial perception.

Other important encyclicals were Mirari Vos, on liberalism and religious indifferentism ( issued on 15 August 1832 ), Quo Graviora, on the Pragmatic Constitution in the Rhineland ( issued on 4 October 1833 ), and Singulari Nos, on the errors of Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais ( issued on 25 June 1834 ).

Mission San Juan Capistrano was the very first to feel the effects of this legislation the following year when, on August 9, 1834 Governor Figueroa issued his " Decree of Confiscation.

Mission San Juan Capistrano was the very first to feel the effects of this legislation the following year when, on August 9, 1834, Governor Figueroa issued his " Decree of Confiscation.