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This article is about the year 1833.
1833 (MDCCCXXXIII) was a common year starting
on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and
a common
year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1833rd year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
833rd year of the 2nd millennium,
the 33rd year of the 19th century,
and the 4th year of the 1830s decade. As of
the start of 1833, 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 3 – British sovereignty is reasserted over the Falkland
Islands, in the South Atlantic. ·
February 6 – His Royal Highness Prince
Otto Friedrich Ludwig of Bavaria assumes the title His Majesty Othon the First, by the Grace of God, King
of Greece, Prince of Bavaria. ·
March 4 – Andrew Jackson is sworn
in for his second term, as President of the United States. April–June[edit] ·
April 1 – General Antonio López
de Santa Anna is elected President of Mexico by
the legislatures of 16 of the 18 Mexican states. During his frequent absences
from office to fight on the battlefield, Santa Anna turns the duties of
government over to his vice president, Valentín Gómez
Farías. [1] ·
April 18 – Over 300 delegates from
England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland travel to the office of the Prime
Minister, the Earl Grey,
to call for the immediate abolition of slavery throughout the British
Empire. [2] ·
May 6 ·
Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber obtain
permission to build an electromagnetic
telegraph in Göttingen. ·
In Alexandria, Virginia,
an attack is made on U.S. President Andrew Jackson. ·
May 10 – The Lê Văn Khôi
revolt against Emperor Minh Mạng of Vietnam begins. ·
May 25 – The Chilean
Constitution of 1833 is promulgated. ·
June 5 – Ada Lovelace is introduced to Charles Babbage, by Mary Somerville.[3] ·
June 9 – Dubai gets independence from the United
Kingdon and is founded as a city. ·
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[edit] ·
July 5 – Liberal Wars – Battle
of Cape St. Vincent: The forces of Queen Maria II of Portugal win
decisively.
The Last Day of
Pompeii was first exhibited in 1833. ·
July 14 – John Keble preaches a sermon at Oxford, which is afterwards
published as National Apostasy;
this sermon has traditionally been considered as the beginning of the Oxford Movement of High Church Anglicans.[4] ·
July 20 – A mob in Jackson County,
Missouri destroys the printing office of the early Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, containing what is now known
as The Doctrine
and Covenants. ·
August 1 ·
The British Parliament passes the Slavery
Abolition Act 1833, ultimately giving slaves in much of the British Empiretheir freedom (enacted 1834). ·
King William's
College on the Isle of Man officially opens. ·
August 3 – Battle of Hülftenschanz: In
Switzerland, troops of the city of Basel march on rebels in Liestal, but are beaten back. ·
August 12 – The settlement of Chicago is established by 350 settlers
at the estuary of the Chicago River in the Illinois Territory,
USA. ·
August 18 – The Canadian ship SS Royal William sets out
from Pictou, Nova Scotia on
a 25-day passage of the Atlantic Ocean (largely under steam) to Gravesend, England. ·
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 28 1836,
a total of 18 Presidents of the United States (2 former, 1 current, and 15
known future) are living; which is more than any other time period in U.S.
history. ·
August 26 – The Canton of Basel is partitioned by the
Swiss Tagsatzung, to
create the two half-cantons of Basel-Cityand Basel-Country. ·
August 29 – The British
Parliament enacts the Factory Acts, limiting child labour. ·
September 2 – Oberlin College is founded in Oberlin, Ohio. ·
September 29 – Three-year-old Isabella II becomes
Queen of Spain, under the regency of her mother, Maria
Christina of the Two Sicilies. Her uncle Don
Carlos, Conde de Molina challenges her claim, beginning
the First Carlist War. October–December[edit] ·
October 20 – Alfred, Lord
Tennyson, writes his oft-quoted poem, Ulysses. [5] ·
November 12–13 – A very spectacular occurrence of
the Leonid meteor shower is
observed all over North America,
and is the inspiration for the song Stars Fell on
Alabama. ·
November 25 – A major 8.7 earthquake strikes Sumatra. ·
December – The American
Anti-Slavery Society is founded. ·
December 14 – Kaspar Hauser, a mysterious German youth, is
stabbed, dying three days later on December 17. ·
December 18 – The national anthem of
the Russian Empire, God Save the Tsar!, is first performed. Date unknown[edit] ·
The dawn of biochemistry: The first enzyme, diastase, is discovered by Anselme Payen. ·
Greece recaptures the Acropolis of Athens. ·
H.R.H. Prince Mongkut of Siam founds the Dhammayut Buddhist
reform movement. ·
Foundation of: ·
Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan. ·
Madras College, St Andrews, Scotland. Births[edit] January–June[edit]
Johannes Brahms ·
January 1 – Robert Lawson,
New Zealand architect (d. 1902) ·
January 2 – Frederick A. Johnson,
American politician (d. 1893) ·
January 5 – Eugene W. Hilgard,
German-American "Father of soil science" (d. 1916) ·
January 7 – Henry Roscoe
(chemist), English chemist (d. 1915) ·
January 18 – Joseph S. Skerrett,
American admiral (d. 1897) ·
January 28 – Charles George Gordon,
British army officer, administrator (d. 1885) ·
February 3 – Abu Bakar of Johor,
Malaysian sultan (d. 1895) ·
February 6 – J. E. B. Stuart, American Confederate
general (d. 1864) ·
February 11 – Melville Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1910) ·
February 19 – Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist, activist,
recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1906) ·
February 25 – John
St. John, American temperance
movement leader (d. 1916) ·
February 28 – Alfred von
Schlieffen, German field marshal (d. 1913) ·
March 4 – Antoine
Alphonse Chassepot, French inventor, gunsmith (d. 1905) ·
March 10 – Dimitrie Sturdza, 4-time Prime Minister of
Romania (d. 1914) ·
March 14 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor,
American dentist (d. 1910) ·
March 15 – Géza Fejérváry,
16th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1914) ·
March 20 – Daniel Dunglas Home,
Scottish medium (d. 1886) ·
March 22 – Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla,
Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1895) ·
April 6 – Luis Cordero Crespo,
14th President of Ecuador (d. 1912) ·
April 11 – Fredrik von Otter,
8th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1910) ·
May 5 – Lazarus Fuchs, German mathematician
(d. 1902) ·
May 7 – Johannes Brahms, German composer (d. 1897) ·
May 9 – Hermann von Spaun,
Austro-Hungarian admiral (d. 1919) ·
May 26 – Edward William
Godwin, English architect (d. 1886) ·
June 1 – John Marshall Harlan, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States (d. 1911) ·
June 4 – Garnet
Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, British field marshal (d. 1913) ·
June 24 ·
Gustaf Åkerhielm,
6th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1900) ·
Alfred William
Bennett, English botanist (d. 1902) July–December[edit]
Princess
Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau ·
July 26 – Gheorghe Manu, 17th Prime Minister of
Romania (d. 1911) ·
July 27 – Thomas George Bonney,
English geologist (d. 1923) ·
August 3 – Auguste Schmidt, German educator, women's
rights activist (d. 1902) ·
August 9 – Emily Pepys, English child diarist (d. 1877) ·
August 12 – Isaac L. Ellwood, American businessman,
rancher and inventor (d. 1910) ·
August 20 – Benjamin Harrison,
23rd President of the United States (d. 1901) ·
September 2 – Henry Hotze, Swiss American Confederate
propagandist (d. 1887) ·
September 20 – Ernesto Teodoro
Moneta, Italian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1918) ·
September 22 – Gheorghe
Grigore Cantacuzino, 2-Time Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1913) ·
October 2 – William Corby, American Catholic priest
(d. 1897) ·
October 21 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite,
creator of the Nobel Prize (d. 1896) ·
October 23 – Antonio Flores Jijón,
13th President of Ecuador (d. 1915) ·
November 6 – Jonas Lie,
Norwegian author (d. 1908) ·
November 9 – Émile Gaboriau,
French writer (d. 1873) ·
November 12 – Alexander Borodin,
Russian composer (d. 1887) ·
November 13 – Edwin Booth, American tragedian (d. 1893) ·
November 14 – Hugh Henry Gough, British general, Victoria
Cross recipient (d. 1909) ·
November 19 – Eliza Lynch, First Lady of Paraguay
(d. 1886) ·
December 6 – Thaddeus C. Pound,
American businessman, politician (d. 1914) ·
December 7 – Rodrigo Augusto
da Silva, Brazilian Senator, author of the Golden Law (d. 1889) ·
December 9 – Friedrich
Daniel von Recklinghausen, German pathologist (d. 1910) ·
December 10 – Ellen Anckarsvärd,
Swedish women's rights activist (d. 1898) ·
December 13 – Petre S. Aurelian,
19th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1909) ·
December 20 – Samuel Mudd, American doctor to John Wilkes Booth (d. 1883) ·
December 25 – Princess
Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1916) Date unknown[edit] ·
Margaret Fox, American medium (d. 1893) ·
Fu Shanxiang, Chinese scholar, Chancellor
(d. 1864) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit]
·
January 10 – Adrien-Marie
Legendre, French mathematician (b. 1752) ·
January 16 –Nannette Streicher,
German piano maker, composer, music educator and writer (b. 1769) ·
January 16 – Banastre Tarleton,
British general, politician (b. 1754) ·
January 23 – Edward
Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (b. 1757) ·
March 13 – William
Bradley, British naval officer, cartographer (b. 1757) ·
April 6 – Adamantios Korais,
Greek scholar (b. 1748) ·
April 7 ·
Antoni
Radziwiłł, Polish politician (b. 1775) ·
Jacques Réattu,
French artist (b. 1760) ·
April 22 – Richard Trevithick,
English inventor (b. 1771) ·
May 5 – Sophia Campbell, Australian artist (b. 1777) ·
May 15 – Edmund Kean, British actor (b. 1787) ·
May 23 – Francesca Anna
Canfield, American linguist, poet, and translator (b. 1803) ·
June 1 – Oliver Wolcott Jr.,
American lawyer, politician, 2nd United
States Secretary of the Treasury, 24th Governor of
Connecticut (b. 1760) ·
June 2 – Simon Byrne, Irish prizefighter (b. 1806) July–December[edit]
·
July 2 – Gervasio
Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (b. 1757) ·
July 5 – Nicéphore Niépce,
French photography pioneer (b. 1765) ·
July 11 – Yagan, Noongar indigenous
Australian warrior (killed) (b. c. 1795) ·
July 12 – Samuel Sterett, American politician
(b. 1758) ·
July 20 – Ninian Edwards, American politician,
Governor of and Senator from Illinois (b. 1775) ·
July 22 – Joseph Forlenze, Italian ophthalmologist
(b. 1757) ·
July 23 – Anselmo de la Cruz,
Chilean political figure (b. 1777) ·
July 29 – William Wilberforce,
English politician, abolitionist (b. 1759) ·
August 9 – Godfrey Higgins, English archaeologist
(b. 1772) ·
September 7 – Hannah More, English religious writer,
Romantic and philanthropist (b. 1745) ·
September 15 – Arthur Hallam, English poet (b. 1811) ·
September 27 – Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu reformer (b. 1772) ·
September 29 – King Ferdinand VII of
Spain (b. 1784) ·
October 4 – Maria Jane Jewsbury,
English poet and literary reviewer (b. 1800) ·
October 16 – Andrey Bolotov, Russian agriculturalist,
memoirist (b. 1738) ·
November 23 – Jean-Baptiste
Jourdan, French marshal (b. 1762) References[edit] 1. ^ Will Fowler, Independent
Mexico: The Pronunciamiento in the Age of Santa Anna, 1821-1858 (University
of Nebraska Press, 2015) 2. ^ Iain Whyte, Zachary
Macaulay 1768-1838: The Steadfast Scot in the British Anti-Slavery Movement (Liverpool
University Press, 2011) 3. ^ Hyman, Anthony
(1982). Charles Babbage: pioneer of the computer. Oxford University
Press. pp. 177–8. ISBN 0-19-858170-X. 4. ^ Perry Butler, ‘Keble,
John (1792–1866)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,
Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2006, accessed 16 May 2014. 5. ^ Victorian Literature: An
Anthology, ed. by Victor Shea and William Whitla (John Wiley & Sons,
2014) p326 |
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