Henry Thoreau, in a Latin Edition HISTORIAE ALEXANDRI MAGNI
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INDEX 1829 1829 EVENTS OF 1828 General Events of 1829 SPRING JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH SUMMER APRIL MAY JUNE FALL JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER WINTER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER Following the death of Jesus Christ there was a period of readjustment that lasted for approximately one million years. –Kurt Vonnegut, THE SIRENS OF TITAN January February March Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 29 30 31 April May June Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 26 27 28 29 30 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 28 29 30 31 July August September EVENTS OF 1830 HDT WHAT? INDEX 1829 1829 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 1 1 2 3 4 5 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 26 27 28 29 30 31 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 27 28 29 30 30 31 October November December Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 29 30 27 28 29 30 31 THE RHODE-ISLAND ALMANACK FOR 1829. By Isaac Bickerstaff. Providence, Rhode Island: Hugh H. Brown. THE RHODE-ISLAND REGISTER AND UNITED STATES CALENDAR FOR 1829. Providence: Hugh H. Brown. THE CHRISTIAN ALMANACK FOR RHODE-ISLAND. Vol. 2, No.2. American Tract Society. Providence. This almanac was probably not printed within the state. Mrs. Felicia Hemans’s THE FOREST SANCTUARY was republished with new lyrics. Maria Jane Jewsbury dedicated her LAYS OF LEISURE HOURS to Mrs. Hemans. At the age of 22 Arnold Henri Guyot relocated from Neuchâtel to Berlin, where he would attend the lectures of Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, Johann August Wilhelm Neander, Eilhard Mitscherlich, Karl Ritter, Ernst Wilhelm Theodor Herrmann Hengstenberg, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Heinrik Steffens, and Heinrich Wilhelm Dove. Alexander von Humboldt would familiarize him with the Berlin Botanical Garden. Yet another edition of MISSIONARY JOURNAL AND MEMOIR OF THE REV. JOSEPH WOLFF, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF; REVISED AND EDITED BY JOHN BAYFORD (London: J. Duncan). William Stephen Coleman was born at Horsham, West Sussex to Dr. William Thomas Coleman and Henrietta Dendy Coleman. HDT WHAT? INDEX 1829 1829 Jules Desnoyers named the Quaternary System — a period in which we humans have lived. Philippe-Charles Schmerling collected a Neanderthal fossil, the partial cranium of a small child (although Charles Lyell would present an illustration of this in 1863 in ANTIQUITY OF MAN, it would not be until the following century that the skull would be recognized as Neanderthal). PALEONTOLOGY Ignaz Venetz believed that the dispersal of erratic boulders in the Alps, the nearby Juras, and the Northern German Plain must have been due to some really huge glaciers, but at the Schweizerische Naturforschende Gesellschaft he encountered scepticism. Finally he would manage to convert a friend, Jean de Charpentier, who would transform his concept into a theory resembled that of Göran Wahlenberg in which such glaciation was confined to the Alpine region. THE SCIENCE OF 1829 OUR MOST RECENT GLACIATION The Reverend Andrew Bigelow’s “Paul at Athens” was featured in LIBERAL PREACHER. Cornelius Vanderbilt established a steamboat company. Colonel William Leete Stone’s FROM NEW YORK TO NIAGARA—JOURNAL OF A TOUR, IN PART BY CANAL, IN 1829. David Hosack’s MEMOIR OF DEWITT CLINTON, WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING NUMEROUS DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF HIS LIFE AND OF THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE CANALS. The Pioneer Line, running packet boats on the Erie Canal on every day but the Sabbath, failed. The Oswego Canal connected the Erie Canal with the east end of Lake Ontario. The New York State legislature approved funding for a Chemung Canal linking the Chemung River to the Erie Canal. Rochester packet boatbuilder Seth C. Jones launched the 15/20-ton Superior on the Erie Canal. The boat had a 7-foot-high cabin decorated with scenic paintings by artist Daniel Steele. HDT WHAT? INDEX 1829 1829 Elizur Wright, Junior became Professor of Mathematics in Hudson College. He got married with Susan Clark (circa 1810-circa 1875) and this union would produce a daughter Mary Vashon Wright in 1839 and a son John Seward Wright in 1842. Johann Ludwig Krapf matriculated at Tübingen University in Württemberg, Germany as a student of theology. Jöns Jacob Berzelius identified the chemical element thorium. The Reverend William Kirby’s SEVEN SERMONS ON OUR LORD’S TEMPTATION, GROUNDED UPON THOSE OF BISHOP ANDREWS. TO WHICH IS ADDED FROM THE SAME AUTHOR, A SERMON ON THE PASSION (Longman and Co.). SEVEN SERMONS Washington Irving’s A CHRONICLE OF THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA. FROM THE MSS. OF [the nonexistent] FRAY ANTONIO AGAPIDA (London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street). CONQUEST OF GRANADA CONQUEST OF GRANADA This year the author would earn $23,500 from his writing (that’d be upward of a couple million, today). Robert Hunt’s THE MOUNT’S BAY; A DESCRIPTIVE POEM ... AND OTHER PIECES (Penzance: J. Downing & T. Matthews). A new Pope, named Pius VIII (he had been Francesco Saverio Castiglioni of Cingoli in Marche). The 4th and 5th volumes of Walter Savage Landor’s IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS OF LITERARY MEN AND STATESMEN, ETC. (London: Duncan). Some silver was stolen from his home, and this led him into a struggle with the police of Florence. Their interviews with local tradesmen led to his being classified as “dangerous” and he was banished from the city. With a loan from Joseph Ablett of Llanbedr Hall, Denbighshire, he purchased the Villa Gherardesca at Fiesole, but almost immediately he would become involved in a lawsuit with a neighbor there, over water rights. Landor was visited by William Hazlitt and James Henry Leigh Hunt, and was on intimate terms with Charles Armitage Brown. He became acquainted with Edward John Trelawny, whom he would include in the 4th volume of his IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS. HDT WHAT? INDEX 1829 1829 The School Committee of Salem banned corporal punishment at its high schools, and at the Latin School where Master Daniel Parker has scorned to apply his ferule to student palms, preferring instead to rely for discipline upon a cowhide whip. Master Dodge, at the Northfield Writing School, was not subject to this ban, and continued to rely upon his cowhide whip, which he referred to as the “Red Dragoon” (as an alternative to being flogged a student might opt to lick up a chalk circle drawn on the floor). Nathaniel Hawthorne, living in his “dismal and squalid chamber” “under the eaves” of the Manning home in Salem while attempting to establish himself as a writer, had burned his manuscript of his first collection SEVEN TALES OF MY NATIVE LAND but in about this year began to prepare another collection, PROVINCIAL TALES. Portions of this collection were beginning to see publication in periodicals as separate tales and sketches. In this year, for instance, his story “The Gentle Boy” which would eventually appear in TWICE-TOLD TALES earned him $35.00 in a magazine called “Token.” Though his mother and sisters lived in the same home reclusively, often taking their meals apart, he was not himself as much a melancholic as he would later enjoy describing himself to have been, for we know that in addition to keeping a notebook record of his encounters, impressions, and literary ideas, he was going on trips from time to time by stagecoach and on foot into the New England countryside. It was in this year that the “Concord Stagecoach” was designed in Concord, New Hampshire. HDT WHAT? INDEX 1829 1829 Charles T. Jackson graduated from Harvard Medical School, winning the Boylston prize for his dissertation, and left for a field trip in Europe during which he would study medicine and geology.