The Quadruple Alliance (April 22, 1834) –…

The first Euramericans to visit the Columbia River, noting that the tops of Salish heads were not pointed like those of neighboring tribes who practice vertical head binding, called them the Flathead Indians.

In response to a visit by four Flatheads to St. Louis and an entreaty to General William Clark for someone to bring the "Book of Heaven", prophesied in a vision, to the Salish people, thirty-year-old Jason Lee had been chosen to head a Methodist mission to the Salish.

Born on a farm near Stanstead, Quebec, Lee travels overland with a part of missionaries, arriving in Fort Vancouver in 1834.

After the site of their first mission is abandoned as unhealthy, ...

...the missionaries settle on the Willamette River, northwest of the present site of Salem, Oregon.

The Moreton Bay convict colony of Edengassie is designated a town in 1833 and named after former New South Wales governor Sir Thomas Brisbane. (Brisbane is today the third most populous city in Australia and the most populous city of Queensland, of which it is the capital.)

Cambodia submits to Siam during the long Thai-Annamese War and allows the installment of a pro-Thai prince on the Cambodian throne.

The Empire Style—sometimes considered the second phase of Neoclassicism, an early-nineteenth-century design movement in architecture, furniture, other decorative arts, and the visual arts—originated in and takes its name from the period when Napoleon I ruled France, known as the First French Empire, where it had been intended to idealize Napoleon's leadership and the French state.

The style had taken particular root in Imperial Russia, where it has been used to celebrate the victory over Napoleon in such memorial structures as the Russian Admiralty, Kazan Cathedral, Alexander Column, and Narva Triumphal Gate.

From 1824-1834, the prominent St. Petersburg architect Vasily Stasov, under the supervision of Karol Podczaszynski, has reconstructed the Bishops’ Palace of Vilnius in the Empire style; his reconstruction of the Palace remains to this day.

Friedrich Wöhler and Justus von Liebig prove by experiment that a group of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms can behave like an element, take the place of an element, and be exchanged for elements in chemical compounds, in their published investigation of the oil of bitter almonds in 1834.

Thus the foundation is laid of the doctrine of compound radicals, a doctrine which is to have a profound influence on the development of chemistry.

Wöhler, the first to synthesize urea, is also known for being a co-discoverer of beryllium, silicon and silicon nitride, as well as the synthesis of calcium carbide, among others.

Robert Schumann founds Die Neue Zeitschrift für Musik ("New Journal in Music"), first published on April 3, 1834.

An arch-Romantic composer, he publishes most of his critical writings in the Journal, and often lambastes the popular taste for flashy technical displays from figures Schumann perceives as inferior composers.

Schumann campaigns to revive interest in major composers of the past, including Mozart, Beethoven, and Weber, while he also promotes the work of some contemporary composers, including Chopin (who does not like Schumann's work) and Berlioz, whom he praises for creating music of substance.

On the other hand, Schumann will disparage the school of Liszt and Wagner.

He had at the age of fourteen written an essay on the aesthetics of music and contributed to a volume, edited by his bookseller father, titled Portraits of Famous Men.

While still at school in his birthplace of Zwickau, Saxony, he had read the works of the German poet-philosophers Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, as well as Byron and the Greek tragedians.

His most powerful and permanent literary inspiration is Jean Paul, whose influence is seen in Schumann's youthful novels Juniusabende, completed in 1826, and Selene.

Schumann's interest in music had been piqued as a child by the performance of Ignaz Moscheles playing at Carlsbad, and he had developed an interest in the works of Beethoven, Schubert, and Mendelssohn later.

His father, however, who had encouraged the boy's musical aspirations, had died in 1826, and neither his mother nor his guardian would encourage a career for him in music.

In 1828, he left school, and after a tour, during which he met Heinrich Heine in Munich, he had gone to Leipzig to study law.

In 1829, his law studies continued in Heidelberg.

During Easter 1830, he had heard Paganini play in Frankfurt.

In July, he wrote to his mother, "My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law."

By Christmas he was back in Leipzig, taking piano lessons from his old master, Friedrich Wieck, who assured him that he would be a successful concert pianist.

During his studies with Wieck, Schumann had permanently injured his right hand.

One suggested cause of this injury is that he damaged his finger by the use of a mechanical device designed to strengthen the weakest fingers, which held back one finger while he exercised the others.

Others have suggested that the injury was a side-effect of syphilis medication.

A more dramatic idea is that in an attempt to increase the independence of his fourth finger, he may have carried out a surgical procedure to separate the tendons of the fourth finger from those of the third.

Whatever the cause of the injury, Schumann had abandoned ideas of a concert career and devoted himself instead to composition.

To this end, he had begun a course of theory under Heinrich Dorn, the conductor of the Leipzig opera.

About this time, he had considered composing an opera on the subject of Hamlet.

Russia has occupied Moldavia and Wallachia for six years, during which Count Pavel Kiselev, a capable administrator, has improved health conditions, organized a well-disciplined police force, built up grain reserves, and overseen the drafting and ratification of the principalities' first fundamental laws, the Règlement Organique.

Russia uses these charters to co-opt Romanian boyars by protecting their privileges, including their tax-exempt status and oligarchic control of the government.

The charters, however flawed, give Romanians their first taste of government by law.

The Règlement provides for elected assemblies of boyars to choose each prince, reforms the principalities' judicial systems, and establishes public education.

At the same time, the documents' economic provisions enable the boyars to stiffen peasant obligations and reduce the peasants' freedom of mobility.

The language issue reemerges in Transylvania when the Diet finally reconvenes in 1834, as Hungarian deputies propose making Magyar the official language of Transylvania.

Russian authorities ban the Romanian language in schools and government facilities in Bessarabia, despite eight percent of the population speaking the language.

This will eventually lead to the banning of Romanian in churches, media and books.