18 April – over 300 delegates from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland travel to the office of the Prime Minister to call for the immediate abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire.[1]
August – Parliament begins annual grants for 50% of the cost of constructing new denominational schools.
28 August
The Slavery Abolition Act receives Royal Assent, abolishing slavery in most of the British Empire, coming into effect 1 August 1834. A £20 million fund is established to compensate slaveowners.
29 August – the Factory Act makes it illegal to employ children less than 9 years old in factories and limits child workers of 9 to 13 years of age to a maximum of 9 hours a day.[4]
Mrs Favell Lee Mortimer's instructional text The Peep of Day, or, A series of the earliest religious instruction the infant mind is capable of receiving.
3 December – Adam Buck, Irish-born neo-classical portraitist and miniature painter (b. 1759)
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^Robson, John (1990). "The Fiat and Finger of God: The Bridgewater Treatises". In Lightman, Bernard; Frank Turner (eds.). Victorian Faith in Crisis: Essays on Continuity and Change in Nineteenth-Century Religious Belief.