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1833 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
Contents
Events
Carl Friedrich Gauß und Wilhelm Weber constructed in Göttingen an electromagnetic telegraph
January
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 labor
September
- 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).
Births
January
- 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)
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)
- 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)
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