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Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
Decades: | 1800s 1810s 1820s – 1830s – 1840s 1850s 1860s |
Years: | 1830 1831 1832 – 1833 – 1834 1835 1836 |
1833 in topic: |
Humanities |
Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature – Music |
By country |
Australia – Canada – France – Germany – Mexico – Philippines – South Africa – US – UK |
Other topics |
Rail Transport – Science – Sports |
Lists of leaders |
Colonial Governors – State leaders |
Birth and death categories |
Births – Deaths |
Establishments and disestablishments categories |
Establishments – Disestablishments |
Works category |
Works |
Gregorian calendar | 1833 MDCCCXXXIII |
Ab urbe condita | 2586 |
Armenian calendar | 1282 ԹՎ ՌՄՁԲ |
Assyrian calendar | 6583 |
Bahá'í calendar | -11–-10 |
Bengali calendar | 1240 |
Berber calendar | 2783 |
British Regnal year | 3 Will. 4 – 4 Will. 4 |
Buddhist calendar | 2377 |
Burmese calendar | 1195 |
Byzantine calendar | 7341–7342 |
Chinese calendar | 壬辰年十一月十一日 (4469/4529-11-11) — to — 癸巳年十一月廿一日(4470/4530-11-21) |
Coptic calendar | 1549–1550 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1825–1826 |
Hebrew calendar | 5593–5594 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1889–1890 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1755–1756 |
- Kali Yuga | 4934–4935 |
Holocene calendar | 11833 |
Igbo calendar | |
- Ǹrí Ìgbò | 833–834 |
Iranian calendar | 1211–1212 |
Islamic calendar | 1248–1249 |
Japanese calendar | Tenpō 4 (天保4年) |
Juche calendar | N/A (before 1912) |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 12 days |
Korean calendar | 4166 |
Minguo calendar | 79 before ROC 民前79年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2376 |
Year 1833 (MDCCCXXXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
- January 3 – Reassertion of British sovereignty 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
- 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 US President Andrew Jackson.
- May 25 – The Chilean Constitution of 1833 is promulgated.
- June 5 – Ada Lovelace is introduced to Charles Babbage by Mary Somerville.
- 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
- July 5 – Liberal Wars – Battle of Cape St. Vincent: The forces of Queen Maria II of Portugal win decisively.
- August 1
- The British Parliament passes the Slavery Abolition Act, giving all slaves in the British Empire their freedom (enacted 1834).
- King William's College on the Isle of Man officially opens.
- August 3 – In Switzerland, troops of the city of Basel march on rebels in Liestal, but are beaten back at the Battle of Hülftenschanz.
- August 12 – The city of Chicago is established at the estuary of the Chicago River by 350 settlers.
- 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, Kent, 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, there are a total of 18 Presidents of the United States (2 former, 1 current, and 15 known future) 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-City and Basel-Country.
- 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.
October–December
- November 12– November 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 stabbed, dying three days later on December 17.
Date unknown
- 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:
- Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan
- Madras College, St Andrews
- Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio
Births
January–June
- January 1 – Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (d. 1902)
- January 2 – Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893)
- January 18 – Joseph S. Skerrett, American admiral (d. 1897)
- February 6 – J.E.B. Stuart, Confederate general (d. 1864)
- 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)
- May 9 – Hermann von Spaun, Austro-Hungarian admiral (d. 1919)
July–December
- July 27 – Thomas George Bonney, English geologist (d. 1923)
- August 3 – Auguste Schmidt, German educator and womans' rights activist (d. 1902)
- 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)
- December 7 – Rodrigo Augusto da Silva, Brazilian Senator and author of the Golden Law (d. 1889)
Deaths
January–June
- January 10 – Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (b. 1752)
- January 16 – Banastre Tarleton, British general and politician (b. 1754)
- 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 5 – Sophia Campbell, Australian artist (b. 1777)
- May 15 – Edmund Kean, British actor (b. 1787)
- June 2 – Simon Byrne, Irish prize fighter (b. 1806)
July–December
- 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)
- July 22 – Joseph Forlenze – Italian ophthalmologist (b. 1757)
- July 23 – Anselmo de la Cruz, Chilean political figure (b. 1777)
- July 29 – William Wilberforce – British Politician and Abolitionist (b. 1759)
- September 7 – Hannah More, English religious writer, Romantic and philanthropist (b. 1745)
- September 15 – Arthur Hallam, English poet (b. 1811)
- 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)
Date unknown
- Samuel Sterett, American politician (b. 1758)