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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 ).

EVENTS OF 1833

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January - March

January 3 - Britain Retakes The Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic .

March 4 - Andrew Jackson sworn in for his second term as President Of The United States .

April - June

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 - September

July 5 - The Battle Of Cape St. Vincent is a decisive victory for the forces of Queen Maria II Of Portugal in the Liberal Wars .

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 is officially opened.

August 12 - The city of Chicago was 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 were a total of 19 Presidents of the United States (3 Former, 1 Current, and 15 Future) living; which is more than any other time period in U.S. history.

August 29 - The British Parliament enacts 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

that was observed in Alabama .

November 25 - Major 8.7 Earthquake strikes Sumatra .

December 14 - Assassination of Kaspar Hauser , who dies three days later on December 17 .

Undated

The dawn of , Diastase , by Anselme Payen .

Carl Friedrich Gauß and Wilhelm Weber built an Electromagnetic Telegraph in Göttingen .

H.R.H. Prince Mongkut of Siam founds Dhammayut Buddhist reform movement.

Kalamazoo College is founded in Kalamazoo, Michigan .

Oberlin College is founded in Oberlin, Ohio .

BIRTHS

January - June

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 - December

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 - June

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 )

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 )

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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