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  • London, England, United Kingdom
    1824
    The palace of Westminster England

    The palace complex was substantially remodeled

    London, England, United Kingdom
    1824

    The palace complex was substantially remodeled, this time by Sir John Soane, between 1824 and 1827.




  • Peru
    Tuesday Feb 10, 1824
    Simón Bolívar

    The Peruvian congress named him dictator of Peru

    Peru
    Tuesday Feb 10, 1824

    Thereafter, Bolívar took over the task of fully liberating Peru. The Peruvian congress named him dictator of Peru on 10 February 1824, which allowed Bolívar to reorganize completely the political and military administration. Assisted by Antonio José de Sucre, Bolívar decisively defeated the Spanish cavalry at the Battle of Junín on 6 August 1824. Sucre destroyed the still numerically superior remnants of the Spanish forces at Ayacucho on 9 December 1824.




  • Montreal, Canada
    Wednesday Mar 17, 1824
    St. Patrick's Day

    The Canadian parade

    Montreal, Canada
    Wednesday Mar 17, 1824

    One of the longest-running and largest St Patrick's Day parades in North America occurs each year in Montreal, whose city flag includes a shamrock in its lower-right quadrant. The yearly celebration has been organized by the United Irish Societies of Montreal since 1929. The parade has been held yearly without interruption since 1824. St Patrick's Day itself, however, has been celebrated in Montreal since as far back as 1759 by Irish soldiers in the Montreal Garrison following the British conquest of New France.




  • Vienna, Austria
    Friday May 7, 1824
    Beethoven

    The Ninth Symphony

    Vienna, Austria
    Friday May 7, 1824

    Two commissions in 1822 improved Beethoven's financial prospects. The Philharmonic Society of London offered a commission for a symphony, and Prince Nikolas Golitsin of Saint Petersburg offered to pay Beethoven's price for three string quartets. The first of these commissions spurred him to finish the Ninth Symphony, which was first performed, along with the Missa Solemnis, on 7 May 1824, to great acclaim at the Kärntnertortheater.




  • Peloponnese, Greece
    Jul, 1824
    Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt

    Ibrahim was sent to the Peloponnese

    Peloponnese, Greece
    Jul, 1824

    Ibrahim was sent to the Peloponnese with a squadron and an army of 17,000 men. The expedition sailed on July 4, 1824, but was for some months unable to do more than come and go between Rhodes and Crete.




  • Peloponnese, Greece
    1824
    Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt

    Muhammad Ali was appointed governor of the Morea

    Peloponnese, Greece
    1824

    In 1824, Muhammad Ali was appointed governor of the Morea (the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece) by Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II.




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