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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades:	1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s
Years:	1830 1831 1832 - 1833 - 1834 1835 1836

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Events of 1833

January 23 - Britain retakes the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
March 4 - Andrew Jackson is sworn in for his second term as President of the United States.
May 6 - Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber obtain permission to build an electromagnetic telegraph in Göttingen.
May 13 - The Finnish parliament unsuccessfully attempts to pass a bill including a reindeer on its national postage stamp.
June 5 - Ada Lovelace is introduced to Charles Babbage by Mary Somerville. In this year, for the first time, Babbage describes his analytical engine.
June 29 - William Fraser Tolmie experiences an earthquake at Fort Nisqually. His journal entry records the first written eyewitness account of an earthquake in the Puget Sound region.
July 5 - Liberal Wars - Battle of Cape St. Vincent: The forces of Queen Maria II of Portugal win decisively.

The Last Day of Pompeii was first exhibited in 1833.

August - The British Parliament passes the Slavery Abolition Act, giving all slaves in the British Empire their freedom (enacted 1834).
August 1 - King William's College on the Isle of Man officially opens.
August 12 - The city of Chicago is established at the estuary of the Chicago river by 350 settlers.
August 20 - Future United States President Benjamin Harrison is born in Ohio. From this date until the death of Former U.S. President James Madison on June 28, 1836, there are a total of 19 Presidents of the United States (3 former, 1 current, and 15 known future) living; which is more than any other time period in U.S. history.
August 29 - The British Parliament enacts the Factory Acts limiting child labour (see also History of the United Kingdom).
September 29 - Three-year old 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.
November 12-13 - Stars Fell on Alabama: A spectacular occurrence of the Leonid meteor shower is observed in Alabama.
November 25 - A major 8.7 earthquake strikes Sumatra.
December 14 - Kaspar Hauser, a mysterious German youth, is shot, dying three days later on December 17.

The dawn of biochemistry: The first enzyme, diastase, is discovered by Anselme Payen.
Greece recaptures the Acropolis.
H.R.H. Prince Mongkut of Siam founds the Dhammayut Buddhist reform movement.
Foundation of:
- Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan
- Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio

January 10 - Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (b. 1752)
January 16 - Banastre Tarleton, British general and politician
January 23 - Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (b. 1757)
April 7 - Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish politician (b. 1775)
April 22 - Richard Trevithick, English inventor (b. 1771)
May 15 - Edmund Kean, British actor (b. 1787)
June 2 - Simon Byrne, Irish prize fighter (b. 1806)
July 2 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (b. 1757)
July 5 - Nicéphore Niépce, French photography pioneer (b. 1765)
July 20 - Ninian Edwards - Governor of Illinois and Senator from Illinois (b. 1775)
July 29 - William Wilberforce - British Politican and Abolitionist (b. 1759)
September 27 - Roy, Ram Mohan, Hindu reformer (b. 1772)
September 29 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain (b. 1784)
October 16 - Andrei Bolotov, Russian agriculturalist and memoirist (b. 1738)
November 23 - Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (b. 1762)

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