1833
1833 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
EventsJanuary 3, Britain seizes control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.March 2, President Andrew Jackson signs the Force Act, which authorizes him to use troops to enforce Federal law in South Carolina.June 6, US President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride a train.May 11, French-American farmhand Antoine le Blanc murders family of three.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.December 14, assassination of Kaspar Hauser, dies three days later in December 17Charles Babbage described his analytical engine. (see also history of computing hardware)The dawn of biochemistry: discovery of the first enzyme, diastase, by Anselme PayenThe British Parliament passes the Slavery Abolition Act giving all slaves in the British Empire their freedom.
Births February 11, Melville Weston Fuller 8th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme CourtFebruary 28, Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (d. 1913)May 7, Johannes Brahms, German composer (d. 1897)July 27, Thomas George Bonney, geologist (d. 1923)October 21, Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite, creator of the Nobel Prize (d. 1896)November 6, Jonas Lie, Norwegian authorNovember 9, Émile Gaboriau, writer (d. 1873)November 12, Alexander Borodin, Russian composer (d. 1887)
DeathsApril 22, Richard Trevithick, English inventor (b. 1771)May 11, Sayers family, Morristown, New Jersey farmersJuly 2, Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leaderSeptember 6, Antoine le Blanc, French-American murderer (executed)September 27, Roy, Ram Mohan, Hindu reformer (b. 1772)September 29, King Ferdinand VII of SpainDecember 17, Kaspar Hauser, German foundlingNinian Edwards, Governor of Illinois and Senator from Illinois (b. 1775)
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