1833

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[edit] Events of 1833

January 23 - Britain retakes the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
March 4 - Andrew Jackson sworn in for his second term as President of the United States.
May 6 - Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber obtain permission to build an electromagnetic telegraph in Göttingen.
May 13 - Finland parliament unsuccessfully attempts to ratify a bill including a reindeer on its national postage stamp.
June 5 - Ada Lovelace is introduced to Charles Babbage by Mary Somerville. In this year, for the first time, Babbage describes his analytical engine.
June 29 - William Fraser Tolmie experiences an earthquake at Fort Nisqually. His journal entry records the first written eyewitness account of an earthquake in the Puget Sound region.
July 5 - The Battle of Cape St. Vincent is a decisive victory for the forces of Queen Maria II of Portugal in the Liberal Wars.

The Last Day of Pompeii was first exhibited in 1833.

August - The British Parliament passes the Slavery Abolition Act giving all slaves in the British Empire their freedom (enacted 1834).
August 1 - King William's College on the Isle of Man is officially opened.
August 12 - The city of Chicago was established at the estuary of the Chicago river by 350 settlers.
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, there were a total of 19 Presidents of the United States (3 Former, 1 Current, and 15 Future) living; which is more than any other time period in U.S. history.
August 29 - The British Parliament enacts the Factory Acts limiting child labour. See also History of the United Kingdom.
September 29 - Three-year old 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.
November 12-13 - Stars Fell on Alabama: A spectacular occurrence of the Leonid meteor shower that was observed in Alabama.
November 25 - Major 8.7 earthquake strikes Sumatra.
December 14 - Assassination of Kaspar Hauser, who dies three days later on December 17.

The dawn of biochemistry: Discovery of the first enzyme, diastase, by Anselme Payen.
Greece recaptures the acropolis.
H.R.H. Prince Mongkut of Siam founds Dhammayut Buddhist reform movement.
Foundation of:
- Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan
- Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio