1833

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Events

• January 3 - Britain seizes control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
• June 6 - U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride a train.
• 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)
• July 2 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader
• September 27 - Roy, Ram Mohan, Hindu reformist (b. 1772)
• September 29 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain

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