1833 - Definition and Overview

Events

• January 3, Britain seizes control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
• 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
• 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 6, Jonas Lie, Norwegian author
• November 9, Émile Gaboriau, writer (+ 1873)
• November 12, Alexander Borodin, composer
• December 20, Dr. Samuel Mudd, doctor to John Wilkes Booth

Deaths

• April 22, Richard Trevithick, English inventor (b. 1771)
• May 11, Sayers family, respected Morristown, New Jersey farmers
• July 2, Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader
• September 6, Antoine le Blanc, French American murderer executed
• September 27, Roy, Ram Mohan, Hindu reformist (b. 1772)
• September 29, King Ferdinand VII of Spain
• December 17, Kaspar Hauser, German foundling