1833
1833 was a
common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
Carl Friedrich Gauß und
Wilhelm Weber constructed in
Göttingen an electromagnetic
telegraphJanuary
*
January 3,
British invades the Falkland Islands in the
South Atlantic.
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
*
August 12 - 350 settlers established the city of
Chicago at the
estuary of the
Chicago river*
August 29 -
UK:
Factory Act, limiting
Child laborSeptember
*
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.
October
November
*
November 12-
13 -
Stars Fell on Alabama: A spectacular occurrence of the
Leonid meteor shower that was observed in
Alabama.
December
*
December 14, assassination of
Kaspar Hauser, dies three days later on
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 (enacted
1834).
January
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January 1 -
Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (d.
1902)
February
*
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)
March
April
May
*
May 7 -
Johannes Brahms, German composer (d.
1897)
June
July
*
July 27 -
Thomas George Bonney, English geologist (d.
1923)
August
*
August 20 -
Benjamin Harrison, 23rd
President of the United States (d.
1901)
September
*
September 20 -
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1918)
October
*
October 21 -
Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite, creator of the
Nobel Prize (d.
1896)
November
*
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
Unknown
*
Francis Anstie, British physician and medical researcher (d.
1874)
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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)
*
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)
*
October 16 -
Andrei Bolotov, Russian agriculturalist and memoirist (b.
1738)
*
November 23 -
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (b.
1762)
*
Ninian Edwards, Governor of Illinois and Senator from Illinois (b.
1775)
