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1833

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s

Years: 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 - 1833 - 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Heads of State

Events

• January 3 - Britain seizes control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
• 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.
• 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.

Year in topic

• 1833 in literature
• 1833 in science
• 1833 in music

Births

• February 11 - Melville Weston Fuller 8th chief justice of the United States.
• February 28 - Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (+ 1913)
• May 7 - Johannes Brahms, composer (+ 1897)
• July 27 - Thomas George Bonney (+ 1923), Alps geologist
• October 21 - Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, creator of the Nobel Prize
• November 9 - Émile Gaboriau, writer (+ 1873)
• November 12 - Alexander Borodin, composer
• December 20 - Dr. Samuel Mudd, doctor to John Wilkes Booth

Deaths

• Roy, Ram Mohan
• July 2 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader
• September 29 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain

Heads of State

• China - Daoguang Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (September 2, 1820 to February 25, 1850
• Denmark - Frederick VI, King of Denmark (1808-1839)
• France - Louis-Phillippe, King of the French (August 1, 1830 to February 24, 1848
• Norway - Charles III, King of Norway (1818-1844)
• Ottoman Empire - Mahmud II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808-1839)
• Prussia - Frederick William III, King of Prussia (1797-1840)
• Russia - Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia (December 26, 1825 to March 2, 1855)
• Spain -
  1. Ferdinand VII, King of Spain (1813-1833)
  2. Isabella II, Queen of Spain (September 29, 1833 to September, 1868)
• United States - Andrew Jackson, President of the United States (March 4, 1829 to March 4, 1837)

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