Today in History for Year 1833

Months in Year 1833: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 52 of 52

Jan 1st - British government demands Falkland islands
Jan 1st - Curacao census: 2,602 whites, 6,531 free people & 5,894 slaves
Jan 2nd - Re-establishment of British rule on the Falklands.
Jan 3rd - Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic
Jan 8th - Boston Academy of Music, 1st US music school, established
Jan 10th - Felix Mendelssohn's "Die erste Walpurgisnacht," premieres in Berlin
Jan 15th - HMS Beagle anchors at Goeree Tierra del Fuego
Jan 19th - Charles Darwin reaches Straits Ponsonby, Fireland
Jan 23rd - Joseph Pease, a Quaker, admitted to Parliament on his affirmation
Jan 26th - Gaetano Dinozetti's opera "Lucrezia Borgia," premieres in Milan
Mar 16th - Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st US woman grad of a pharmacy college
Mar 17th - Phoenix Society forms (NY)
Mar 20th - US & Siam sign commercial treaty
Apr 9th - 1st tax-supported public library (Peterborough, NH)
Apr 24th - Jacob Evert & George Dulty patent 1st soda fountain
May 2nd - Czar Nicolas bans public sale of serfs
May 6th - John Deere makes 1st steel plow
May 11th - "Lady-of-the-Lake" strikes iceberg & sinks in N Atlantic; kills 215
Jun 3rd - 4th national black convention meets (Phila)
Inventor Charles Babbage Jun 5th - Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage
Jun 27th - Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury Conn
Jul 8th - Russia & Turkey sign defense treaty
Jul 23rd - Cornerstones are laid for the construction of the Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio.
Jul 24th - HMS Beagle departs Maldonado Uruguay
Aug 3rd - HMS Beagle reaches river mouth of Rio Negro
Aug 10th - Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200
Aug 12th - Chicago is founded.
Aug 24th - HMS Beagle reaches Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Aug 29th - Britain's Slavery Abolition Act becomes law
Sep 3rd - NY Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper)
Sep 4th - 1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty, 10 years old-NY Sun)
Sep 8th - Charles Darwin departs to Buenos Aires
Sep 19th - Charles Darwin visits Guardia del Monte, Argentina
Sep 20th - Charles Darwin rides horse to Buenos Aires
Deere & Company Founder John Deere Sep 27th - Charles Darwin rides horse to Santa Fe
Oct 1st - Charles Darwin reaches Rio Tercero Argentina
Oct 2nd - Charles Darwin rides through Corunda to Santa Fe Argentina
Oct 2nd - NY Anti-Slavery Society organized
Oct 5th - Charles Darwin moves with Parana to Santa Fe Bajada Argentina
Oct 12th - Charles Darwin begins return trip to Buenos Aires
Oct 20th - Charles Darwin reaches river mouth of Parana
Oct 29th - 1st US college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded
Nov 8th - Train derails at Hightstown NJ; 2 die
Nov 14th - Charles Darwin departs by horse to Montevideo
Nov 18th - Netherlands & Belgium sign Treaty of Zonhoven
Nov 20th - Charles Darwin reaches Punta Gorda, sees Rio Uruguay
Nov 28th - Charles Darwin rides through Las Pietras, returning to Montevideo
Dec 3rd - Oberlin College in Oh, 1st truly coeducational college opens
Dec 4th - American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan in Phila
Dec 6th - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin departs Rio de la Plata
Dec 13th - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port Deseado, Patagonia
Dec 25th - Charles Darwins celebrates Christmas in Port Desire, Patagonia

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 83 of 83

Jan 1st - Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (d. 1902)
Jan 2nd - Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893)
Jan 21st - Norman Willis, union leader (Britain's Trades Union Congress)
Jan 23rd - John Randolph Chambliss Jr, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864
Jan 28th - Charles George Gordon, London, general (China, Khartoum)
Feb 1st - Henry McNeal Turner, black methodist bishop
Feb 3rd - Thomas T H Jorissen, Dutch historian
Feb 5th - John Watkinson, founder of British Chess Magazine (oldest chess mag)
Feb 6th - James Ewell Brown "JEB" Stuart, Major General (Confederate Army)
Feb 6th - José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist (d. 1906)
Feb 7th - Ricardo Palma, Peru, writer/poet (Tradiciones Peruanas)
Feb 11th - Melville Weston Fuller, 8th chief justice
Feb 13th - William Whedbee Kirkland, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1915
Feb 18th - James Deshler, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
Feb 22nd - Josef Foerster, composer
Feb 24th - Eduard earl von Taaffe, Austrian premier (1868..93)
Feb 25th - Clement Anselm Evans, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1911
Feb 25th - Julie Verstraete-Lacquet, Flemish actress
Feb 28th - Alfred von Schlieffen, Count/Prussian general-fieldmarshal
Mar 9th - Frederick A. Schroeder, tobacco industrialist and mayor of Brooklyn (d. 1899)
Mar 14th - John Sappington Marmaduke, Major General (Confederate Army)
Mar 14th - Lucy Hobbs Taylor, 1st US woman dentist (1866)
Mar 20th - Henry Southwick Perkins, composer
Mar 26th - Betsy Perk, [Christina E], Dutch journalist/writer/feminist
Apr 2nd - Thomas Howard Ruger, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Apr 6th - Johan H C Kern, Dutch linguist (Sanskrit, Old Javan)
Apr 10th - David McMurtrie Gregg, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Apr 10th - James Edward Rains, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
Apr 17th - Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (d. 1900)
May 5th - Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer/explorer
May 7th - Johannes Brahms, Hamburg Germany, composer
May 8th - Frank Wheaton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1903
May 9th - Boleslaw Dembinski, composer
Jun 1st - John Marshall Harlan, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1911)
Jun 4th - Garnet Joseph, 1st viscount Wolseley soldier
Jun 7th - Alexander Ritter, composer
Jun 9th - John Rogers Cooke, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
Jun 15th - Edward Moody McCook, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1909
Jun 20th - Leon-J-F Bonnat, painter
Jun 27th - Vladislav Ivanovich Zaremba, composer
Jul 1st - Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Bvt Major General (Union Army)
Jul 10th - Lucius Eugene Polk, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
Jul 19th - John Wesley Turner, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1899
Jul 22nd - Benjamin Hanby, composer
Jul 27th - Thomas George Bonney, English geologist (d. 1923)
Jul 28th - James Henry Lane, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) [or Jun 22 1814]
Aug 3rd - Auguste Schmidt, German teacher/feminist
Aug 5th - Carola of Vasa, Queen consort of Saxony (d. 1907)
Aug 7th - Powell Clayton, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)/(Gov-R-Ark)
Aug 11th - Robert Green Ingersoll, NY, author/politician/agnostic (Att Gen-R-Ill)
Aug 11th - Kido Takayoshi, Japanese politician (d. 1877)
Aug 12th - William Price Sanders, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
Aug 20th - Benjamin Harrison, North Bend Ohio, (R) 23rd Pres (1889-1893)
Aug 26th - Charles Jackson Paine, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Aug 28th - Edward Burne-Jones, England, Pre-Raphaelite painter/designer
Italian Pacifist Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (Sep 20th) Sep 20th - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Milan, Italy, journalist/soldier/pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1907), (d. 1918)
Sep 21st - Josef Richard Rozkosny, composer
Sep 22nd - Stephen Dill Lee, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1908
Sep 24th - Henry Alanson Barnum, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Sep 28th - James Deering Fessenden, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Sep 30th - Ferdinand von Saar, writer
Oct 2nd - Rev. William Corby, American Catholic priest (d. 1897)
Oct 5th - Cyrus Bussey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1915
Oct 15th - Klaas Kater, Dutch Christian Worker's Union Leader
Oct 18th - Johannes Habert, composer
Oct 21st - Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite & Peace Prizes, (d. 1896)
Nov 2nd - Mahendralal Sarkar, Indian doctor (d. 1904)
Nov 3rd - Edward Dorr Tracy, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
Nov 6th - Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (d. 1908)
Nov 10th - Dobri Voynikov, composer
Inventor/Nobel Prize founder Alfred Bernhard Nobel (Oct 21st) Nov 12th - Aleksandr Porfirievich Borodin, Russia, composer (Robert LeDiable)
Nov 13th - Edwin Thomas Booth, US, US Hall of Fame/actor (Hamlet)
Nov 14th - Antonius von der Linde, Neth/German librarian/chess player
Nov 19th - Wilhelm Dilthey, German philosopher (Das Leben Schleiermans)
Nov 24th - Antoine Labelle, Quebec catholic priest (d. 1891)
Nov 27th - Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (d. 1897)
Nov 29th - Louis Douglass Watkins, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
Dec 6th - John Singleton Mosby, Powhatan County, Virginia, lawyer/Col (Confederate Army), (d. 1916)
Dec 12th - Matthias Hohner, German manufacturer (harmonica)
Dec 17th - James Thadeus Holtzclaw, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1893
Dec 20th - Samuel A Mudd, doctor, convicted of giving medical aid to JW Booth
Dec 28th - Charles Miller Shelley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
Dec 29th - John James Ingalls, (Rep-Ks)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

Oct 3rd - Composer Hector Berlioz marries actress Harriet Smithson

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 43 of 43

Jan 7th - Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba, composer, dies at 55
Jan 10th - Adrien Marie Legendre, dies
Jan 10th - Antoinio da Silva Leite, composer, dies at 73
Jan 12th - Marie-Antoine Carême, French chef (b. 1784)
Jan 14th - Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox saint (b. 1759)
Jan 17th - James Ball Antyne, Scot founder (Ball Antyne Press), dies at about 60
Jan 17th - William Rush, Indians sculptor (Spirit of the Schuylkill), dies
Jan 19th - Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold, French composer (b. 1791)
Jan 23rd - Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (b. 1757)
Feb 6th - Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (b. 1762)
Feb 18th - Georg Johann Schinn, composer, dies at 64
Feb 18th - Ignac Ruzitska, composer, dies at 55
Mar 7th - Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin, German author, dies at 61
Mar 11th - Fridolin Weber, composer, dies at 71
Apr 6th - Adamantios Korais, Greek humanist scholar (b. 1748)
Apr 7th - Antoni Henryk Radziwill, Lithuanian/Polish composer, dies at 57
Apr 22nd - Richard Trevithick, inventor (steam locomotive), dies at 62
May 10th - Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician, dies at 74
May 14th - Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, composer, dies at 88
May 15th - Edmund Kean, English actor (Shylock), dies at 46
May 28th - Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner, composer, dies at 74
May 29th - William Marshall, composer, dies at 84
May 30th - Josef Slavik, composer, dies at 27
Jun 2nd - Simon Byrne, Irish bare-knuckle prize fighter (b. 1806)
Jun 20th - Philip Knapton, composer, dies at 44
Jun 23rd - Nikolaus Paul Zmeskall, composer, dies at 73
Jul 2nd - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine politician (b. 1757)
Jul 5th - Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (b. 1765)
Jul 18th - Joseph Comb, missionary to Moluccas, dies at 63
Jul 27th - Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder/saint, dies at 26
Jul 29th - William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (b. 1759)
Aug 3rd - Stoffel Muller, Dutch sect leader, dies
Aug 14th - Luigi Cagnola, architect, dies
Aug 24th - Adrian H Haworth, English entomologist/botanist, dies at 65
Sep 28th - Lemuel Haynes, Revolutionary War veteran, dies at 88
Sep 29th - Ferdinand VII MF, king of Spain, dies
Oct 25th - Abbas Mirza, Persian governor/heir to the throne, dies at 44
Oct 27th - Ferdinand Franzl, composer, dies at 66
Oct 30th - Pieter G Witsen Geysbeek, historian/literary, dies at 58
Nov 8th - Maximilian Stadler, composer, dies at 85
Dec 10th - Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain, composer, dies at 79
Dec 16th - Friedrich August Kanne, composer, dies at 55
Dec 17th - Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel of Bathe, murdered at 21