Year '1833' ('
MDCCCXXXIII') was a
common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Gregorian Calendar (or a
common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower
Julian calendar).
Events of 1833
January - March
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January 3 -
Britain retakes the Falkland Islands in the
South Atlantic.
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March 4 -
Andrew Jackson sworn in for his second term as
President of the United States.
April - June
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June 5 -
Ada Lovelace is introduced to
Charles Babbage by
Mary Somerville. In this year, for the first time, Babbage describes his
analytical engine.
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June 29 -
William Fraser Tolmie experiences an earthquake at
Fort Nisqually. His journal entry records the first written eyewitness account of an earthquake in the
Puget Sound region.
July - September
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July 5 - The
Battle of Cape St. Vincent is a decisive victory for the forces of Queen
Maria II of Portugal in the
Liberal Wars.
★ August - The British Parliament passes the
Slavery Abolition Act giving all slaves in the
British Empire their freedom (enacted
1834).
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August 1 -
King William's College on the
Isle of Man is officially opened.
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August 12 - The city of
Chicago was established at the
estuary of the
Chicago river by 350 settlers.
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August 20 - Future
United States President Benjamin Harrison is born in
Ohio. From this date until the death of Former U.S. President
James Madison on
June 281836, there were a total of 19 Presidents of the United States (3 Former, 1 Current, and 15 Future) living; which is more than any other time period in U.S. history.
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August 29 - The
British Parliament enacts
Factory Acts limiting
child labour. ''See also
History of the United Kingdom''.
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September 29 - Three-year old
Isabella II becomes Queen of Spain, under the regency of her mother,
Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. Her uncle
Don Carlos, Conde de Molina challenges her claim, beginning the
First Carlist War.
October - December
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November 12-
13 -
Stars Fell on Alabama: A spectacular occurrence of the
Leonid meteor shower that was observed in
Alabama.
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November 25 - Major 8.7
earthquake strikes
Sumatra.
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December 14 - Assassination of
Kaspar Hauser, who dies three days later on
December 17.
Undated
★ The dawn of
biochemistry: Discovery of the first
enzyme,
diastase, by
Anselme Payen.
★
Carl Friedrich Gauß and
Wilhelm Weber built an
electromagnetic telegraph in
Göttingen.
★ H.R.H. Prince
Mongkut of
Siam founds
Dhammayut Buddhist reform movement.
★
Kalamazoo College is founded in
Kalamazoo, Michigan.
★
Oberlin College is founded in
Oberlin, Ohio.
Births
January - June
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January 1 -
Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (d.
1902)
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January 2 -
Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d.
1893)
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February 11 -
Melville Weston Fuller, 8th
Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d.
1910)
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February 19 -
Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and activist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1906)
★
February 25 -
John St. John, American
temperance movement leader (d.
1916)
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February 28 -
Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (d.
1913)
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May 7 -
Johannes Brahms, German composer (d.
1897)
July - December
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July 27 -
Thomas George Bonney, English geologist (d.
1923)
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August 20 -
Benjamin Harrison, 23rd
President of the United States (d.
1901)
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September 20 -
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1918)
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October 21 -
Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite, creator of the
Nobel Prize (d.
1896)
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November 6 -
Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (d.
1908)
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November 9 -
Émile Gaboriau, French writer (d.
1873)
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November 12 -
Alexander Borodin, Russian composer (d.
1887)
: ''See also .''
Deaths
January - June
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January 10 -
Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (b.
1752)
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January 23 -
Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (b.
1757)
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April 7 -
Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish politician (b.
1775)
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April 22 -
Richard Trevithick, English inventor (b.
1771)
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May 15 -
Edmund Kean, British actor (b.
1787)
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June 2 -
Simon Byrne, Irish prize fighter (b.
1806)
July - December
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July 2 -
Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (b.
1757)
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July 5 -
Nicéphore Niépce, French photography pioneer (b.
1765)
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July 20 -
Ninian Edwards - Governor of Illinois and Senator from Illinois (b.
1775)
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September 27 -
Roy, Ram Mohan, Hindu reformer (b.
1772)
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September 29 - King
Ferdinand VII of Spain (b.
1784)
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October 16 -
Andrei Bolotov, Russian agriculturalist and memoirist (b.
1738)
★
November 23 -
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (b.
1762)
: ''See also .''
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