1833
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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).
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[edit] Events of 1833
January 23 - Britain retakes the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. March 4 - Andrew Jackson is sworn in for his second term as President of the United States. May 6 - Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber obtain permission to build an electromagnetic telegraph in Göttingen. May 13 - The Finnish parliament unsuccessfully attempts to pass a bill including a reindeer on its national postage stamp. June 5 - Ada Lovelace is introduced to Charles Babbage by Mary Somerville. In this year, for the first time, Babbage describes his analytical engine. 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 5 - Liberal Wars - Battle of Cape St. Vincent: The forces of Queen Maria II of Portugal win decisively.
August - The British Parliament passes the Slavery Abolition Act, giving all slaves in the British Empire their freedom (enacted 1834). August 1 - King William's College on the Isle of Man officially opens. August 12 - The city of Chicago is established at the estuary of the Chicago river by 350 settlers. 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, there are a total of 19 Presidents of the United States (3 former, 1 current, and 15 known future) living; which is more than any other time period in U.S. history. August 29 - The British Parliament enacts the Factory Acts limiting child labour (see also History of the United Kingdom). 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. November 12-13 - Stars Fell on Alabama: A spectacular occurrence of the Leonid meteor shower is observed in Alabama. November 25 - A major 8.7 earthquake strikes Sumatra. December 14 - Kaspar Hauser, a mysterious German youth, is shot, dying three days later on December 17.
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The dawn of biochemistry: The first enzyme, diastase, is discovered by Anselme Payen. Greece recaptures the Acropolis. H.R.H. Prince Mongkut of Siam founds the Dhammayut Buddhist reform movement. Foundation of:
[edit] Ongoing
Belgian Revolution (1830-1839) Padri War (1821-1837)
[edit] Births
1833 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1833
MDCCCXXXIII
MDCCCXXXIII
Ab urbe condita 2586
Armenian calendar 1282
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Ô¹ÕŽ ՌՄÕÔ²
Bahá'à calendar -11 – -10
Berber calendar 2783
Buddhist calendar 2377
Burmese calendar 1195
Byzantine calendar 7341 – 7342
Chinese calendar 壬辰年å一月å一日
(4469/4529-11-11)
(4470/4530-11-21)
(4469/4529-11-11)
— to —
癸巳年å一月廿一日(4470/4530-11-21)
Coptic calendar 1549 – 1550
Ethiopian calendar 1825 – 1826
Hebrew calendar 5593 – 5594
- Vikram Samvat 1888 – 1889
- Shaka Samvat 1755 – 1756
- Kali Yuga 4934 – 4935
Holocene calendar 11833
Iranian calendar 1211 – 1212
Islamic calendar 1248 – 1249
Japanese calendar TenpÅ 4
(天ä¿4å¹´)
(天ä¿4å¹´)
Korean calendar 4166
Thai solar calendar 2376
January 1 - Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (d. 1902) January 2 - Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893) February 11 - Melville Weston Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1910) 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) February 28 - Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (d. 1913) May 7 - Johannes Brahms, German composer (d. 1897) July 27 - Thomas George Bonney, English geologist (d. 1923) August 3 - Auguste Schmidt, German educator and womans' rights activist August 20 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (d. 1901) September 20 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1918) October 2 - William Corby, American Catholic priest (d. 1897) October 21 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite, creator of the Nobel Prize (d. 1896) November 6 - Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (d. 1908) November 9 - Émile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873) November 12 - Alexander Borodin, Russian composer (d. 1887) December 6 - Thaddeus C. Pound, American businessman and politician (d. 1914)
[edit] Deaths
January 10 - Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (b. 1752) January 16 - Banastre Tarleton, British general and politician January 23 - Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (b. 1757) April 7 - Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish politician (b. 1775) April 22 - Richard Trevithick, English inventor (b. 1771) May 15 - Edmund Kean, British actor (b. 1787) June 2 - Simon Byrne, Irish prize fighter (b. 1806) July 2 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (b. 1757) July 5 - Nicéphore Niépce, French photography pioneer (b. 1765) July 20 - Ninian Edwards - Governor of Illinois and Senator from Illinois (b. 1775) September 27 - Roy, Ram Mohan, Hindu reformer (b. 1772) September 29 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain (b. 1784) October 16 - Andrei Bolotov, Russian agriculturalist and memoirist (b. 1738) November 23 - Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (b. 1762)
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