1833

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1800s  1810s  1820s  – 1830s –  1840s  1850s  1860s
Years:	1830 1831 1832 – 1833 – 1834 1835 1836

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  February 6: Prince Otto of Bavaria arrives at the newly-independent Kingdom of Greece, landing at its capital, the port of Nafplio, to become King Othon the First.

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  July 5: The Battle of Cape St. Vincent is fought off the coast of Portugal between the forces of King Miguel I and the former Queen Maria II.

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  Portrait of Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

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  Alfred Nobel

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  Elisa Lynch official portrait.

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  Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau

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  Painting of Richard Trevithick, the engineer, by John Linnell

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  Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

1833 (MDCCCXXXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1833rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 833rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 33rd year of the 19th century, and the 4th year of the 1830s decade. As of the start of 1833, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

• January 3 – Britain invades the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
• March 2 – United States President Andrew Jackson signs the Force Act, which authorizes him to use troops to enforce federal law in South Carolina.
• March 4 – Ayya Vaikundar incarnated from the sea of Thiruchendur as the avatar of Kali Yukam.
• June 6 – U.S. President 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 – The assassination of Kaspar Hauser, who dies three days later on 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.
• Heard Island and the McDonald Islands discovered.

Births

August 20 - Benjamin Harrison, twenty-third President of the United States (d. 1901)