1833

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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

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Australia – Canada – France – Germany – Mexico – Philippines – South Africa – US – UK

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Lists of leaders

Colonial Governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

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	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)