1833

1833 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).

Events

• January 3, Britain invades the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
• March 2, President Andrew Jackson signs the Force Bill, 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 17
• 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.

Births

• February 11 - Melville Weston Fuller 8th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1910)
• 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)
• 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)

Deaths

• January 10 - Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (b. 1752)
• April 22 - Richard Trevithick, English inventor (b. 1771)
• July 2 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (b. 1757)
• July 5 - Nicéphore Niépce, French photography pioneer (b. 1765)
• September 27 - Roy, Ram Mohan, Hindu reformer (b. 1772)
• September 29 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain (b. 1784)
• November 23 - Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (b. 1762)
• Ninian Edwards, Governor of Illinois and Senator from Illinois (b. 1775)