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1833 in other calendars
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 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.
The Last Day of Pompeii was first exhibited in 1833.
  • 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)
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