* 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

In 1834 James Frampton, a local landowner, wrote to the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, to complain about the union, invoking an obscure law from 1797 prohibiting people from swearing oaths to each other, which the members of the Friendly Society had done.

He was appointed Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1834, and presided in that court for more than nine years.

They made Lord Grey prime minister 1830 – 1834, and the Reform Act of 1832 became their signature measure.

In 1834, working with the Chief Superintendent of Trade representing the British Empire, William, Lord Napier, tried unsuccessfully to negotiate with the Chinese officials in Canton.

In December 1834 he was appointed as a Junior Lord of the Treasury in Sir Robert Peel's first ministry.

After Lord Grey resigned as Prime Minister in July 1834, the King was forced to appoint another Whig to replace him, as the Tories were not strong enough to support a government.

While he was less radical than many, when Lord Grey resigned ( July 1834 ), Melbourne was widely seen as the most acceptable replacement among the Whig leaders, and became Prime Minister.

They made Lord Grey prime minister 1830 – 1834, and the Reform Act 1832 became their signature measure.

The following few years were extremely turbulent, but eventually enough reforms were passed that King William IV felt confident enough to invite the Tories to form a ministry again in succession to those of Lord Grey and Lord Melbourne in 1834.

* Lord Teignmouth ( 1751 – 1834 ), Governor-General of India

This is most evident in the thematic aspects of his music, particularly Harold en Italie ( 1834 ), a work inspired by Lord Byron's Childe Harold.

The last Lord Chief Justice to serve in this way was Lord Denman in 1834.

Their only son, the sixth Duke, served as Lord Chamberlain of the Household from 1827 to 1828 and from 1830 to 1834.

In 1834, when the leader of the Commons, Lord Althorp, succeeded to the peerage as Earl Spencer, Russell became the leader of the Whigs in the Commons, a position he maintained for the rest of the decade, until the Whigs fell from power in 1841.

In 1834 he was raised to the bench, and on taking his seat as a Judge in the Court of Session he adopted the title of Lord Cockburn as a Scottish Law Lord of Session.

In December 1834 he obtained a commission from Lord Auckland to the East Indies on HMS Rattlesnake.

He was First Lord of the Admiralty under Grey and then Lord Melbourne in 1834 and again under Melbourne in 1835.

was passed in 1834 by the government of Lord Melbourne and largely implemented the findings of the Royal Commission which had presented its findings two years earlier.

In 1834 he completed the Reform Banquet, for Lord Grey — this painting contained 597 portraits ; in 1843, Curtius Leaping into the Gulf, and Uriel and Satan.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, KCVO, DL ( 10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902 ), known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Bt from 1837 to 1869 and usually referred to simply as Lord Acton, was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer.