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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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.

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

• 1833 in literature:

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)
• 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 states

• Ottoman Empire - Mahmud II Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808-1839)
• Prussia - Frederick William III King of Prussia (1797-1840)\n