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1822 Halab earthquake

The 1822 Halab earthquake, also known as the 1822 Afrin earthquake, nearly destroyed Aleppo on 13 August 1822, killing thousands across northwestern Syria and southern Turkey.

1822–23 United States House of Representatives elections

1822–23 United States House of Representatives elections: congressional elections held July 1822 to August 1823 for the 18th Congress (1823–1825), 213 seats under the 1820 census apportionment, last Era of Good Feelings House election, Speaker Henry Clay.

18228 Hyperenor

18228 Hyperenor (3163 T-1) is a ~23 km Jupiter Trojan asteroid at Jupiter's L5 point, discovered 26 March 1971 at Palomar by van Houten, van Houten-Groeneveld, and Gehrels; dark surface, albedo 0.068, 12.1-year orbit.

1824 Constitution of Mexico

The 1824 Constitution of Mexico, formally the Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States, promulgated after the fall of Iturbide's empire, divided Mexico into sovereign states and lasted until 1836.

1824 United States presidential election

1824 US presidential election: four Democratic-Republicans (Jackson, Adams, Crawford, Clay); no electoral majority, Jackson led with 99; House chose Adams 13-7-4 on February 9, 1825, prompting the 'corrupt bargain' charge.

1824–25 United States House of Representatives elections

1824–25 United States House of Representatives elections, held with the four-way 1824 presidential race; Adams won the House contingent election February 9, 1825, and Adams-voting representatives from Jackson districts suffered midterm losses.

1825 Blida earthquake

The 1825 Blida earthquake (البليدة) struck Blida, south-west of Algiers, on 2 March 1825, killing 6,000 to 7,000 people and leveling most of the town, which was rebuilt on a new site.

1826

1826 was a common year that saw the founding of the University of London and the Congress of Panama, which Simón Bolívar called to unite Spanish American republics.

18263 Anchialos

18263 Anchialos (5167 T-2), a Greek-camp Jupiter Trojan asteroid about 21.3 km across, discovered 25 September 1973 at Palomar by the van Houtens and Gehrels; 11.88-year orbit, 10.39-hour rotation, no Earth hazard.

18268 Dardanos

18268 Dardanos is a Jupiter Trojan asteroid about 20 km in diameter that librates around Jupiter's trailing L5 Lagrange point, named after an ancient toponym near Troy and discovered at Palomar in 1977.

1827 Bogota earthquake

The 1827 Bogota earthquake was a magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck southern Colombia on 16 November 1827, killing about 250 people, with severe damage from Neiva to Bogotá.

1827 Lahore earthquake

The 1827 Lahore earthquake was a destructive earthquake that struck Lahore, Punjab, in September 1827, killing about 1,000 people and destroying the Fort Kolitaran near the city.

18278 Dymas

18278 Dymas is a numbered minor planet whose name was officially corrected from the earlier published spelling "Drymas" by the IAU's Working Group on Small Body Nomenclature in 2024 errata to MPC 42366.

1828 Kashmir earthquake

The 1828 Kashmir earthquake was a destructive earthquake that struck the Kashmir Valley in June 1828, collapsing about 1,200 houses in Srinagar and killing perhaps 1,000 people.

1828 Sandyo In Etigo earthquake

The 1828 Sanjō (Echigo) earthquake (三条地震) struck Echigo Province in present-day Niigata Prefecture, Japan, in December 1828, killing about 1,400 people and destroying thousands of houses.

1828 United States presidential election

The 1828 United States presidential election: Andrew Jackson (Democratic) defeated incumbent John Quincy Adams (National-Republican), 178 to 83 electoral votes, in a rematch of the disputed 1824 'corrupt bargain' contest, with an expanded white male electorate.

18281 Tros

18281 Tros, provisional designation 4317 T-3, is a Jupiter Trojan asteroid about 14 kilometers wide, discovered at Palomar Observatory in 1977 and orbiting the Sun every 11.9 years.

18282 Ilos

18282 Ilos (4369 T-3), a Jupiter Trojan asteroid in the L5 swarm, discovered 16 October 1977 at Palomar by the van Houtens and Tom Gehrels; 15.4 km diameter, 11.96-year orbit, not hazardous.

1829 Shandong earthquake

The 1829 Shandong earthquake was a destructive earthquake that struck central Shandong, China, on 19 November 1829, damaging Yidu and Linqu and killing about 117 people.

1829 Spain earthquake

The 1829 Spain earthquake, known as the Torrevieja earthquake, struck the Vega Baja del Segura region south of Alicante on 21 March 1829, killing 389 people.

1830 Damavand earthquake

The 1830 Damavand earthquake was a magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck east of Tehran on 27 March 1830, destroying about 70 villages and killing over 500 people.

1830 Hebei earthquake

The 1830 Hebei earthquake, also called the 1830 Cixian earthquake (1830年河北磁县地震), was a magnitude 7.5 earthquake that struck Cixian County in southern Hebei on 12 June 1830, killing over 5,000 people.

1830 Kyoto earthquake

The 1830 Kyoto earthquake, known in Japanese as the Bunsei Kyoto earthquake, was an estimated magnitude 6.5 inland earthquake that struck Kyoto on 19 August 1830, killing hundreds.

1830 Russia earthquake

The 1830 Russia earthquake was a destructive earthquake that struck the Northern Caucasus, in present-day Dagestan, on 9 March 1830, with cataloged magnitude about 6.3.

1830s

The 1830s decade: Belgian independence declared 4 October 1830, British Slavery Abolition Act 1833, rise of American abolitionism, founding of the BAAS (1831), and the coining of "scientist" (1833).

1831 Barbados earthquake

The 1831 Barbados earthquake struck Barbados and neighboring islands, including Saint Vincent, Dominica, and Antigua, on August 11, 1831, killing an estimated 3,000 people while the Great Caribbean Hurricane ravaged the region.

1832 Georgian plot

The 1832 Georgian plot (Georgian: 1832 წლის შეთქმულება) was a conspiracy by Georgian nobles to expel Russian rule and restore the Bagrationi monarchy, uncovered in December 1832.

1832 United States presidential election

1832 United States presidential election: Andrew Jackson (Democratic) re-elected over Henry Clay (National Republican), 219-49 electoral votes; first national nominating conventions; Bank veto central issue; Wirt and Floyd also ran.

1833 Arica earthquake

The 1833 Arica earthquake was a large subduction-zone earthquake that struck the Peru–Chile border region on 18 September 1833, destroying much of Tacna and leaving the Ilo-Arica segment a recognized seismic gap today.

1833 Nepal earthquake

The 1833 Nepal earthquake was a large thrust earthquake, estimated at magnitude 7.5, that struck Kathmandu on August 26, 1833, destroying thousands of buildings and killing several hundred people.