1833

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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


[edit] 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.