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| 1829 |
| | | The Metropolitan Police, set up in London by Robert Peel, become known as 'bobbies' from his first name | |
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| 1829 |
| | | 20-year-old Edgar Allan Poe publishes Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems | |
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| 1829 |
| | | The Emancipation Act, enabling Daniel O'Connell to take his seat at Westminster, at last removes the restrictions on Catholics in UK public life | |
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| 1829 |
| | | The state government of Georgia declares that it is illegal for for the Cherokees to hold political assemblies | |
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| 1829 |
| | | Gioacchino Rossini's opera William Tell has its premiere in Paris | |
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| 1829 |
| | | Pugin joins the staff of Covent Garden as a scene painter, but is soon designing sets and costumes | |
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| 1829 |
| | | German composer Felix Mendelssohn visits the Hebrides and see's Fingal's Cave, later the theme of his Hebrides Overture | |
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| 1829 |
| | | Oxford and Cambridge compete against each other in the first university boat race, held at Henley | |
|  | Boat Race souvenir, printed cloth 1876
Richmond Local Studies
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| 1829 |
| | | The locomotive Rocket, built by George and Robert Stephenson, defeats two rivals in the Rainhill trials, near Liverpool | |
|  | Stephenson's Rocket (replica)
National Archives, Kew
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| 1829-1830 |
| | | Old St Mary's Church is demolished but many monuments are transferred to a new Church on the same site and the vaults continue to be used under the new building | |
|  | Hampton Old Church, in a print of c.1835
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