1833
Events
July–September
July 5 – Liberal Wars : The forces of Queen Maria II of Portugal win the Battle of Cape St. Vincent , defeating the supporters of her uncle, King Miguel , who usurped the throne in 1828.
July 8 – The Treaty of Hünkâr İskelesi creates an alliance between the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire .
July 14 – At Oxford University, John Keble preaches a sermon against the Church Temporalities (Ireland) Act 1833 . Keble's sermon, published afterwards published as National Apostasy , is traditionally considered as the beginning of the Oxford Movement of High Church Anglicans .
July 20 – A mob in Jackson County, Missouri , destroys the printing office of the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints containing what becomes known as The Doctrine and Covenants .
August 1 – King William's College opens on the Isle of Man .
August 12 – The settlement of Chicago is established by 350 settlers at the estuary of the Chicago River in the U.S. state of Illinois .
August 18 – The Canadian ship SS Royal William sets out from Pictou, Nova Scotia on a 25-day passage of the Atlantic Ocean, primarily under steam, to Gravesend in England.
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 , a total of 18 Presidents of the United States (2 former, 1 current, and 15 future) are living; which is more than any other time period in U.S. history.
August 26 – The Canton of Basel is partitioned by the Swiss Tagsatzung to create the two half-cantons of Basel-City and Basel-Country .
August 28 – The British Slavery Abolition Act 1833 , beginning the process of giving slaves in much of the British Empire their freedom, receives royal assent , with an effective date of August 1, 1834. A £20 million fund is established to compensate slaveowners.
August 29 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom votes to pass the Factory Acts , limiting child labour .
August 31 – The chartered ship Amphitrite sinks off Boulogne-sur-Mer while transporting 108 British female convicts and 12 children from Woolwich in England to New South Wales in what is now Australia . All of the passengers die, along with 13 of the 16 crew, leaving 3 survivors.
September 2 – Oberlin College is founded in the U.S. at Oberlin, Ohio .
September 6 – At least 6,000 people are killed when an 8.0 magnitude earthquake shakes the Chinese province of Yunnan destroying buildings, homes and temples.
September 29 – Three-year-old Isabella II becomes Queen of Spain, under the regency of her mother, Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies . Her uncle Don Carlos, Conde de Molina challenges her claim, beginning the First Carlist War .
Births
January–June
Johannes Brahms
January 1 – Robert Lawson , New Zealand architect (d. 1902 )
January 5 – Eugene W. Hilgard , German-American "Father of soil science" (d. 1916 )
January 7 – Sir Henry Roscoe , English chemist (d. 1915 )
January 18 – Joseph S. Skerrett , American admiral (d. 1897 )
January 28 – Charles George Gordon , British army officer, administrator (d. 1885 )
February 3 – Abu Bakar of Johor , Malaysian sultan (d. 1895 )
February 6 – J. E. B. Stuart , American Confederate general (d. 1864 )
February 11 – Melville Fuller , 8th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1910 )
February 19 – Élie Ducommun , Swiss journalist, activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1906 )
February 23 – Alfons Grotowski , Polish sanitary engineer (d. 1922 )
February 25 – John St. John , American temperance movement leader (d. 1916 )
February 28 – Alfred von Schlieffen , German field marshal (d. 1913 )
March 10 – Dimitrie Sturdza , 4-time prime minister of Romania (d. 1914 )
March 14 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor , American dentist (d. 1910 )
March 15 – Géza Fejérváry , 16th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1914 )
March 20 – Daniel Dunglas Home , Scottish medium (d. 1886 )
March 22 – Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla , Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1895 )
April 6 – Luis Cordero Crespo , 14th President of Ecuador (d. 1912 )
April 11 – Fredrik von Otter , 8th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1910 )
May 5 – Lazarus Fuchs , German mathematician (d. 1902 )
May 7 – Johannes Brahms , German composer (d. 1897 )
May 9 – Hermann von Spaun , Austro-Hungarian admiral (d. 1919 )
May 26 – Edward William Godwin , English architect (d. 1886 )
June 1 – John Marshall Harlan , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1911 )
June 4 – Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley , British field marshal (d. 1913 )
June 21 – Domenico Morea , Italian priest, educator and historian (d. 1902 )
June 24
July–December
Alfred Nobel
Eliza Lynch
Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau
July 7 – Félicien Rops , Belgian artist (d. 1898 )
July 14 – Alfred Biliotti , Italian Levantine British consular officer and archaeologist (d. 1915 )
July 26 – Gheorghe Manu , 17th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1911 )
July 27 – Thomas George Bonney , English geologist (d. 1923 )
August 3 – Auguste Schmidt , German educator, women's rights activist (d. 1902 )
August 9 – Emily Pepys , English child diarist (d. 1877 )
August 16 – Eliza Ann Otis , American poet, newspaper publisher and philanthropist (d. 1904 )
August 20 – Benjamin Harrison , 23rd President of the United States (d. 1901 )
August 31 – Carlo Alberto Racchia , Italian admiral and politician (d. 1896 )
September 2 – Henry Hotze , Swiss American Confederate propagandist (d. 1887 )
September 20 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta , Italian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1918 )
September 22 – Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino , twice Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1913 )
October 2 – William Corby , American Catholic priest (d. 1897 )
October 20 – Mary F. Eastman , American educator, lecturer, writer and suffragist (d. 1908 )
October 21 – Alfred Nobel , Swedish inventor of dynamite, creator of the Nobel Prize (d. 1896 )
October 23 – Antonio Flores Jijón , 13th President of Ecuador (d. 1915 )
November 6 – Jonas Lie , Norwegian author (d. 1908 )
November 9 – Émile Gaboriau , French writer (d. 1873 )
November 12 – Alexander Borodin , Russian composer (d. 1887 )
November 13 – Edwin Booth , American tragedian (d. 1893 )
November 14 – Sir Hugh Gough , British general, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1909 )
November 19 – Eliza Lynch , First Lady of Paraguay (d. 1886 )
November 27 – Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (d. 1897 )
November 30 – Frederick Richards British admiral (d. 1912 )
December 7 – Rodrigo Augusto da Silva , Brazilian Senator, author of the Golden Law (d. 1889 )
December 13 – Petre S. Aurelian , 19th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1909 )
December 20 – Samuel Mudd , American doctor to John Wilkes Booth (d. 1883 )
December 25 – Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1916 )
Deaths
January–June
Richard Trevithick
January 10 – Adrien-Marie Legendre , French mathematician (b. 1752 )
January 16 – Princess Paula of Brazil (b. 1823 )
January 16 – Nannette Streicher , German piano maker, composer, music educator and writer (b. 1769 )
January 16 – Banastre Tarleton , British general, politician (b. 1754 )
January 23 – Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth , British admiral (b. 1757 )
March 13 – William Bradley , British naval officer, cartographer (b. 1758 )
April 6 – Adamantios Korais , Greek scholar (b. 1748 )
April 7
April 22 – Richard Trevithick , English inventor (b. 1771 )
May 5 – Sophia Campbell , Australian artist (b. 1777 )
May 15 – Edmund Kean , British actor (b. 1787 )
May 23 – Francesca Anna Canfield , American linguist, poet and translator (b. 1803 )
June 1 – Oliver Wolcott Jr. , American lawyer, politician, 2nd United States Secretary of the Treasury , 24th Governor of Connecticut (b. 1760 )
June 2 – Simon Byrne , Irish prizefighter (b. 1806 )
July–December
Nicéphore Niépce
July 2 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas , Argentine leader (b. 1757 )
July 5 – Nicéphore Niépce , French photography pioneer (b. 1765 )
July 11 – Yagan , Noongar indigenous Australian warrior (killed) (b. c. 1795 )
July 12 – Samuel Sterett , American politician (b. 1758 )
July 19 – George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland , British landowner (b. 1758 )
July 20 – Ninian Edwards , American politician, Governor of and Senator from Illinois (b. 1775 )
July 22 – Joseph Forlenze , Italian ophthalmologist (b. 1757 )
July 23 – Anselmo de la Cruz , Chilean political figure (b. 1777 )
July 26 – Thomas Knapton , English mariner, executed (b. c. 1816 )
July 29 – William Wilberforce , English politician, abolitionist (b. 1759 )
August 9 – Godfrey Higgins , English archaeologist (b. 1772 )
August 14 – Placidus a Spescha , Swiss mountain climber (b. 1752 )
September – James Farquhar , Scottish politician (b. 1764 )
September 7 – Hannah More , English religious writer, Romantic, and philanthropist (b. 1745 )
September 15 – Arthur Hallam , English poet (b. 1811 )
September 27 – Ram Mohan Roy , Hindu reformer (b. 1772 )
September 29 – King Ferdinand VII of Spain (b. 1784 )
October 3 – François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat , French general (b. 1754 )
October 4 – Maria Jane Jewsbury , English poet and literary reviewer (b. 1800 )
October 16
November 16 – John McMillan , Presbyterian minister, missionary in Pennsylvania (b. 1752 )
November 23 – Jean-Baptiste Jourdan , French marshal (b. 1762 )
December 17 – Kaspar Hauser , German youth of uncertain origin (stabbed) (b. 1812 ?)
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