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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

January 23 - 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.
May 13 - Finland parliament unsuccessfully attempts to ratify 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 - 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 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 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 biochemistry: Discovery of the first enzyme, 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 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 27 - Thomas George Bonney, English geologist (d. 1923)

August 3 - Auguste Schmidt, German educator and womans' rights activist

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) � See also .

Deaths

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 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)

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) � See also .

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