May 7: The almost completely deaf Beethoven premieres his Ninth Symphony Events January–March January 8 – After much controversy, Michael Faraday is finally elected as a member of the Royal Society, with only one vote against him. January 22 – First Anglo-Ashanti War: Battle of Nsamankow – forces of the Ashanti Empire crush British forces in the Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana), killing the British governor Sir Charles MacCarthy. January 24 – The first issue of the radical quarterly founded by Jeremy Bentham, The Westminster Review, is published in London. February 10 – Simón Bolívar is proclaimed dictator of Peru. February 21 – The Chumash Revolt of 1824 begins against the Spanish presence in California. March 4 – Founding of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in the British Isles. March 5 – The First Anglo-Burmese War begins. March 7 – The Florida State Capitol moves from St. Augustine to Tallahassee. March 9 – Netherlands Trading Society (Netherlandsche Handel-Maatschappij), a predecessor of ABN AMRO, Dutch firm Financial group, founded. March 11 – The United States War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs. March 17 – The Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 is signed. March 19 – American explorer Benjamin Morrell departs Antarctica after a voyage later plagued by claims of fraud. March 29 – In Cairo, 4,000 people are killed in a fire, including people killed by the explosion of gunpowder housed at the palace of Egypt's Ottoman Governor Mehmet Ali. April–June April 9 – The first permanent settlers arrive to construct the new city of Tallahassee, Florida, selected to be the capital of the Florida Territory newly acquired from the Kingdom of Spain; the area has been selected because it is roughly equidistant from the territory's main cities, Pensacola and St. Augustine. April 19 – Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron), the British poet, dies at the age of 36 in the Greek city of Missolonghi, where he had taken ill while making plans to liberate the Greeks from Ottoman rule, "not in combat, but of a fever caught in the unhealthy conditions at Missolonghi... exacerbated, it is generally agreed, by the over-zealous actions of his doctors, who bled him excessively." May 7 – Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (the "Choral") premieres at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna. The deaf composer has to be turned around on the stage to witness the enthusiastic audience reaction. May 24 – First Anglo-Burmese War: The