1833

	1833 in topic:
	Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
	Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science
	Sports – Rail Transport
	Countries: Australia – Canada – France – Germany – Ireland – Mexico – Netherlands – New Zealand – Norway – South Africa – Spain – UK – USA
	Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
	Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
	Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

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

[edit] Events of 1833

January 23 – Britain retakes the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
March 4 – Andrew Jackson is sworn in for his second term as President of the United States.
May 6 – Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber obtain permission to build an electromagnetic telegraph in Göttingen.
May 13 – The Finnish parliament unsuccessfully attempts to pass a bill including a reindeer on its national postage stamp.
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 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).
August 1 – King William's College on the Isle of Man officially opens.
August 12 – The city of Chicago is 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 are a total of 19 Presidents of the United States (3 former, 1 current, and 15 known future) living; which is more than any other time period in U.S. history.
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.
November 12–13 – 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.

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
- Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio

January 10 – Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (b. 1752)
January 16 – Banastre Tarleton, British general and politician
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 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 23 – Anselmo de la Cruz, Chilean political figure (b. 1777)
July 29 – William Wilberforce – British Politician and Abolitionist (b. 1759)
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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