Notable Historical Events - 1833
1833 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
British government demands Falkland islands |
Jan 1 |
Curacao census: 2,602 whites, 6,531 free people & 5,894 slaves |
Jan 2 |
Re-establishment of British rule on the Falklands. |
Jan 3 |
Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic |
Jan 8 |
Boston Academy of Music, 1st US music school, established |
Jan 10 |
Felix Mendelssohn's "Die erste Walpurgisnacht," premieres in Berlin |
Jan 15 |
HMS Beagle anchors at Goeree Tierra del Fuego |
Jan 19 |
Charles Darwin reaches Straits Ponsonby, Fireland |
Jan 23 |
Joseph Pease, a Quaker, admitted to Parliament on his affirmation |
Jan 26 |
Gaetano Dinozetti's opera "Lucrezia Borgia," premieres in Milan |
Mar 16 |
Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st US woman grad of a pharmacy college |
Mar 17 |
Phoenix Society forms (NY) |
Mar 20 |
US & Siam sign commercial treaty |
Apr 9 |
1st tax-supported public library (Peterborough, NH) |
Apr 24 |
Jacob Evert & George Dulty patent 1st soda fountain |
May 2 |
Russian Tsar Nicolas I bans public sale of serfs |
May 6 |
John Deere makes 1st steel plough |
May 11 |
"Lady-of-the-Lake" strikes iceberg & sinks in N Atlantic; kills 215 |
Jun 3 |
4th national black convention meets (Phila) |
Jun 5 |
Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage |
Jun 27 |
Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury Conn |
Jun 28 |
Three missionaries of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society obtain permission from Chief Moshoeshoe (Moshesh) to found a mission station in Basutoland (now Lesotho) |
Jul 8 |
Russia & Turkey sign defense treaty |
Jul 23 |
Cornerstones are laid for the construction of the Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio. |
Jul 24 |
HMS Beagle departs Maldonado Uruguay |
Aug 3 |
HMS Beagle reaches river mouth of Rio Negro |
Aug 10 |
Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200 |
Aug 12 |
Chicago is founded. |
Aug 24 |
HMS Beagle reaches Bahia Blanca, Argentina |
Aug 29 |
Britain's Slavery Abolition Act becomes law |
Sep 3 |
New York Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper) |
Sep 4 |
1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty, 10 years old-NY Sun) |
Sep 8 |
Charles Darwin departs to Buenos Aires |
Sep 19 |
Charles Darwin visits Guardia del Monte, Argentina |
Sep 20 |
Charles Darwin rides horse to Buenos Aires |
Sep 27 |
Charles Darwin rides horse to Santa Fe |
Oct 1 |
Charles Darwin reaches Rio Tercero Argentina |
Oct 2 |
Charles Darwin rides through Corunda to Santa Fe Argentina |
Oct 2 |
NY Anti-Slavery Society organized |
Oct 5 |
Charles Darwin moves with Parana to Santa Fe Bajada Argentina |
Oct 12 |
Charles Darwin begins return trip to Buenos Aires |
Oct 20 |
Charles Darwin reaches river mouth of Parana |
Oct 29 |
1st US college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded |
Nov 8 |
Train derails at Hightstown NJ; 2 die |
Nov 12 |
The great Leonid Meteor shower was recorded |
Nov 14 |
Charles Darwin departs by horse to Montevideo |
Nov 18 |
Netherlands & Belgium sign Treaty of Zonhoven |
Nov 20 |
Charles Darwin reaches Punta Gorda, sees Rio Uruguay |
Nov 28 |
Charles Darwin rides through Las Pietras, returning to Montevideo |
Dec 3 |
Oberlin College in Oh, 1st truly coeducational college opens |
Dec 4 |
American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan in Phila |
Dec 6 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin departs Rio de la Plata |
Dec 13 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port Deseado, Patagonia |
Dec 25 |
Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas in Port Desire, Patagonia |
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