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August 18: Demerara
rebellionbegins. 1823 (MDCCCXXIII) was
a common year starting
on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and
a common
year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1823rd year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini(AD) designations, the 823rd
year of the 2nd millennium,
the 23rd year of the 19th century,
and the 4th year of the 1820s decade. As of
the start of 1823, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January–March[edit] ·
January 23 – In Paviland Cave on
the Gower Peninsula of
Wales, William Buckland inspects
the "Red Lady of Paviland",
the first identification of a prehistoric human burial.[1] ·
Jackson
Male Academy, precursor of Union University, opens in Tennessee. ·
Gioachino Rossini's Semiramide is first performed. ·
February 10 – The first worldwide
carnival parade takes place in Cologne, Prussia. ·
February 11 – Carnival tragedy
of 1823: About 110 boys are killed during a stampede at the Convent
of the Minori Osservanti in Valletta, Malta. ·
February 15 (approx.) – The first
officially recognised gold is found in Australia, by surveyor James McBrien
at Fish River,
near Bathurst, New
South Wales, predating the Australian gold
rushes. ·
February 20 – Explorer James Weddell's expedition to Antarctica
reaches latitude 74°15' S and longitude34°16'45" W: the
southernmost position any ship had reached before, a record that will hold
for more than 80 years. ·
March 19 – Emperor Agustín de Iturbide of
Mexico abdicates, thus ending the short-lived First Mexican Empire. April–June[edit] ·
April 13 – Franz Liszt, 11, gives a concert, after
which he is personally congratulated by Ludwig van Beethoven. ·
May 5 – Emperor Pedro I of Brazil inaugurates Brazil's first Assembleia Geral,
with 50 Senators and 102 Deputies.[2] ·
May 7 – Mikhail
Semyonovich Vorontsov in appointed as Governor-General of Novorossiya (New Russia), the portion
of Russia bordering the Black Sea and in the territory now occupied by Ukraine.[3] ·
May 9 – Russian author Alexander Pushkin begins
work on his novel Eugene Onegin.[4] ·
May 25 – The Catholic Association begins,
at a meeting of 13 people at a bookseller's house, on Capel Street in Dublin.[5] ·
June 5 – Raffles Institution is
established (as the Singapore Institution) by the founder of Singapore, Sir Stamford Raffles. July–September[edit] ·
July 1 – The Congress
of Central America declares absolute independence from Spain,
Mexico, and any other foreign nation, including North America, and a
republican system of government is established. ·
July – Robert Peel ensures the passage of
five Acts
of Parliament in the United Kingdom, effectively abolishing
the death penalty for
over one hundred offences;[6] in particular, the Judgement of
Death Act allows judges to commute sentences for capital
offences (other than murder or treason) to imprisonment or transportation.[7] ·
July 10 – The Gaols Act is passed by Parliament
of the United Kingdom, based on the prison reform campaign
of Elizabeth Fry.[6] ·
July 15 – The Basilica
of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, in Rome, is almost completely
destroyed by fire. ·
August 1 – William
Pitt Amherst arrives in Calcutta with Lady Amherst, to become
the new Governor-General
of India.[8] ·
August 4 – Felipe
Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop, the Mexican government
administrator in charge of Anglo-American immigration into Mexico's state
of Coahuila y Tejas,
allows Stephen F. Austin to
put together an 11-man police force, that will later be expanded to become
the Texas Ranger
Division.[9] ·
August 5 – The Royal Hibernian
Academy is founded in Dublin.[10] ·
August 16 – Tsar Alexander I of
Russia draws up a secret "manifesto", designating
his second younger brother Nikolaito
succeed him, and bypassing Nikolai's older brother, Grand
Duke Konstantin. The existence of the manifesto is revealed on
Alexander's death in 1825.[11] ·
August 18 – Demerara
rebellion of 1823: In British Guiana (South America), an
insurrection of 10,000 black slaves begins; it is suppressed after three
days, but hundreds of suspects are executed in the reprisals that follow.[12] ·
August 20 – Pope Pius VII dies after a reign of
more than 23 years, that began on March 14, 1800; he is remembered for
crowning Napoleon Bonaparte as Emperor of France.[13] ·
August 24 – Hugh Glass gets mauled by a sow
grizzly, while on a fur trapping expedition in the Missouri Territory
(Movie: The Revenant 2015),(Book:The Revenant). ·
September 10 – Simón Bolívar is
named President of Peru. ·
September 22 – Joseph Smith wrote that in 1838 that on
this day he had first come to the place where the golden plateswere stored, having been
directed there by God through an angel. ·
September 23 – First
Anglo-Burmese War: Burmese forces attack the British on
Shapura, an island close to Chittagong. ·
September 28 – Roman Catholic Cardinal
Annibale della Genga is elected Pope Leo XII. October–December[edit] ·
October 5 – Medical journal The Lancet is founded by Thomas Wakley in London. ·
November 3 – An explosion at the
Rainton Colliery Company's Plain Pit mine, at Chilton Moor, kills 57 coal miners.[14] ·
November – According to
tradition, William Webb Ellis invents
the sport of rugby football at Rugby School in England.[6] ·
December 2 – James Monroe first introduces the Monroe Doctrine in the State of the
Union address, declaring that any European attempts to recolonize
the Americas would be considered a hostile act towards the United States. Date unknown[edit] ·
The first Anglo-Ashanti
War begins. ·
Olbers' paradox is described by the German
astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm
Olbers. ·
Work
begins on the British Museum in
London, designed by Robert Smirke,
and the Altes Museum in
Berlin, designed by Karl Friedrich
Schinkel. ·
The Oxford Union is founded as a student
debating society in England. Births[edit] January–June[edit]
·
January 1 – Sándor Petőfi,
Hungarian poet, revolutionary (d. 1849) ·
January 3 – Robert Whitehead, English engineer, inventor
(d. 1905) ·
January 8 – Alfred Russel
Wallace, British naturalist, biologist (d. 1913) ·
January 27 – Édouard Lalo, French composer (d. 1892) ·
February 15 – Li Hongzhang, Chinese politician, general,
and diplomat (d. 1901) ·
February 23 – John Braxton Hicks,
English obstetrician (d. 1897) ·
Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of
Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 1883) ·
Ernest Renan, French philosopher,
philologist, historian and writer (d. 1892) ·
March 8 – Gyula Andrássy,
4th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1890) ·
March 14 – Théodore de Banville,
French writer (d. 1891) ·
March 20 – Ned Buntline, American publisher, writer,
and publicist (d. 1886) ·
March 23 – Schuyler Colfax, 17th Vice
President of the United States from 1869 to 1873 (d. 1885) ·
April 1 – Simon Bolivar
Buckner, American soldier, politician and Confederate soldier
(d. 1914) ·
April 3 – William M. Tweed, American political boss
(d. 1878) ·
April 4 – Carl Wilhelm Siemens,
German engineer (d. 1883) ·
April 24 – Sebastián Lerdo
de Tejada, 27th President of Mexico (d. 1889) ·
April 25 – Abdülmecid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1861) ·
May 2 – Emma Hardinge
Britten (b. Emma Floyd), English-born spiritualist (d. 1899) ·
May 9 – Frederick Weld, 6th Prime Minister of New
Zealand (d. 1891) ·
May 15 ·
Youssef Bey Karam, Lebanese nationalist leader (d. 1889) ·
Thomas Lake Harris,
American poet (d. 1906) ·
May 17 – Henry
Eckford, British horticulturist (d. 1905) ·
May 22 – Solomon Bundy, American politician (d. 1889) ·
May 26 – William Pryor
Letchworth, American businessman, philanthropist, founder of Letchworth State
Park, New York ·
July 6 – Sophie Adlersparre,
Swedish feminist (d. 1895) ·
June 13 – David
Breakenridge Read, Canadian lawyer, Mayor of Toronto (d. 1904) ·
June 21 – Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (d. 1873) July–December[edit]
·
July 9 (date uncertain) – Phineas Gage, improbable American head
injury survivor (d. 1860) ·
July 18 ·
Félix du
Temple de la Croix, French Army Captain, aviation pioneer
(d. 1890) ·
Leonard Fulton Ross,
American Civil War general (d. 1901) ·
July 23 – Coventry Patmore, English poet (d. 1896) ·
August 3 – Thomas Francis
Meagher, American Civil War general (d. 1867) ·
August 4 – Oliver P. Morton, American politician
(d. 1877) ·
August 5 – Eliza Tibbets, mother of the California
orange industry (d. 1898) ·
Hugh Stowell Brown,
Manx preacher (d.1886) ·
Charles Keene,
English artist, illustrator (d. 1891) ·
August 11 – Charlotte Mary Yonge,
English author (d. 1901) ·
August 13 – Goldwin Smith, English historian (d. 1910) ·
August 14 – Karel Miry, Belgian composer (d. 1889) ·
August 15 – Orris S. Ferry, American Civil War general,
politician (d. 1875) ·
August 26 – Wilhelm Troszel, Polish composer (d. 1887) ·
September 15 – Hugh Buchanan, American politician (d. 1890) ·
September 23 – James Black, American
temperance movement leader (d. 1893) ·
November 1 – Lascăr Catargiu,
4-time Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1899) ·
November 8 – Joseph Monier, French inventor (d. 1906) ·
November 16 – Henry G. Davis, American politician
(d. 1916) ·
November 18 – Charles H.
Bell American politician (d. 1893) ·
November 25 – Henry Wirz, Confederate military officer,
prisoner-of-war camp commander (d. 1865) ·
December 6 – Friedrich Max Müller,
German Orientalist (d. 1900) ·
December 9 – Rosalie Olivecrona,
Swedish women's rights activist (d. 1898) ·
December 13 – Ferdinand Büchner,
German composer (d. 1906) ·
December 22 – Thomas
Wentworth Higginson, American Unitarian minister, abolitionist
(d. 1911) ·
December 27 – Mackenzie Bowell, 5th Prime Minister
of Canada (d. 1917) Date Unknown[edit] ·
Manolache
Costache Epureanu, 2-time Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1880) ·
Andrzej Jerzy
Mniszech, Polish painter (d. 1905) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit]
·
January 21 – Gideon Olin, American politician (b. 1743) ·
January 26 – Edward Jenner, English physician, medical
researcher (b. 1749) ·
February 7 – Ann Radcliffe, English writer (b. 1764) ·
February 21 – Charles Wolfe, Irish poet (b. 1791) ·
March 1 – Pierre-Jean Garat,
French Basque opera singer (b. 1764) ·
March 5 – Magdalena
Rudenschöld, Swedish conspirator (b. 1766) ·
March 14 ·
Charles
François Dumouriez, French general (b. 1739) ·
John
Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, British Royal Navy admiral
(b. 1735) ·
March 18 – Jean-Baptiste Bréval,
French cellist (b. 1753) ·
March 19 – Adam Kazimierz
Czartoryski, Polish aristocrat and patron of the arts (b. 1734) ·
June 1 – Louis-Nicolas Davout,
French marshal (b. 1770) ·
June 19 – William Combe, English writer, poet and
adventurer (b. 1742) July–December[edit]
·
August 7 – Mátyás Laáb,
Croatian writer, translator (b. 1746) ·
August 20 – Pope Pius VII, Italian Benedictine (b. 1742) ·
August 22 – Lazare Carnot, French general, politician
and mathematician (b. 1753) ·
August 30 – Pierre Prévost,
French panorama painter (b. 1764) ·
September 11 – David Ricardo, English economist (b. 1772) ·
September 23 – Matthew Baillie, Scottish physician,
pathologist (b. 1761) ·
September 28 – Charlotte Melmoth,
English-born American actress (b. 1749) ·
November 9 – Vasily Kapnist, Ukrainian-Russian poet,
dramatist (b. 1758) ·
December 3 – Giovanni
Battista Belzoni, Italian explorer, pioneer archaeologist of Egypt
(b. 1778) ·
date
unknown - Agnes Ibbetson, English plant physiologist
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