Prime Minister: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (Whig)
May 19
The Syrian Peasant Revolt (183435) erupts in Egyptian-ruled Ottoman
Syria, encompassing peasant uprisings in Palestine and Transjordan,
Galilee and Hauran and the Syrian coast; the rebellions are suppressed
with harsh military response leading to thousands of deaths and mostly
subdued by August, though the Syrian coast uprising lasts until early 1835.
June 7
Greek independence: General Theodoros Kolokotronis is sentenced to death
for treason, for resisting the rule of Otto of Greece (he is released the
following year).