1833
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Years: 1830 1831 1832 - 1833 - 1834 1835 1836 |
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Decades: 1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s |
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Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1833 in topic: Lists of leaders: |
1833 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
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Events
- January 3, British invades the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
- March 2, President Andrew Jackson signs the Force Bill, which authorizes him to use troops to enforce Federal law in South Carolina.
- March 3 -Ayya Vaikundar incarnated in a human body from the sea of Thiruchendur.
- May 11 - French-American farmhand Antoine le Blanc murders family of three.
- May 28 - Royal pretender Karl Wilhelm Naundorf arrives in Paris in foot
- June 6, US President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride a train.
- August 29 - Child labor - in United Kingdom, parliament passes an act that makes illegal to employ children less than 9 years old in factories and limits the child workers 9 to 13 years of age to maximum of 9 hours a day
- September 2, Oberlin College is founded by John Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart.
- September 29, the infant 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.
- December 14, assassination of Kaspar Hauser, dies three days later in December 17
- Charles Babbage described his analytical engine. (see also history of computing hardware)
- The dawn of biochemistry: discovery of the first enzyme, diastase, by Anselme Payen
- The British Parliament passes the Slavery Abolition Act giving all slaves in the British Empire their freedom.
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Births
- 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 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 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 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)
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Deaths
- January 10 - Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (b. 1752)
- 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)
- July 2 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (b. 1757)
- July 5 - Nicéphore Niépce, French photography pioneer (b. 1765)
- September 27 - Roy, Ram Mohan, Hindu reformer (b. 1772)
- September 29 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain (b. 1784)
- November 23 - Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (b. 1762)
- Ninian Edwards, Governor of Illinois and Senator from Illinois (b. 1775)