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Events from the year 1833 in the United Kingdom.
Events
- January 3, British invades the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
- August 29 - Child labor: Factory Act makes illegal to employ children less than 9 years old in factories and limits the child workers 9 to 13 years of age to maximum of 9 hours a day
- December - Edwin Chadwick introduces the Ten Hours Bill
- Charles Babbage described his analytical engine. (see also history of computing hardware)
- The British Parliament passes the Slavery Abolition Act giving all slaves in the British Empire their freedom.
Births
Deaths
- 22 April - Richard Trevithick, inventor, engineer and builder of the first working railway steam locomotive (born 1771)