Timeline June 1834

Events in June 1834 2

• 1761 – 1834 William Carey (1761-1834) Died 9 June 1834, aged 72 Carey was an English Baptist missionary, translator, and botanist who spent four decades in India, translating the Bible into Bengali and other South Asian languages. He helped found Serampore College and is often called the father of modern Protestant missions. He died at Serampore, near Calcutta.
• 1834 Cyrus McCormick Patents the Mechanical Reaper A horse-drawn machine to cut grain Cyrus McCormick patented a horse-drawn reaping machine in Virginia, improving on a design his father had developed. The reaper could cut grain far faster than hand labour, and McCormick later built a manufacturing empire around it in Chicago. The invention became a cornerstone of American agricultural mechanization.