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Revision as of 17:42, 27 February 2008
 1833 in the United Kingdom:
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| 1831 | 1832 | 1833 | 1834 | 1835 |
| Sport |
| 1833 English cricket season |
Events from the year 1833 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
- Monarch - William IV of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Tory
Events
- 3 January - British forces invades the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
- 25 May - Royal Horticultural Society holds the first flower show in Britain.
- 14 July - the Oxford Movement within the Church of England launched.
- 29 August - 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 in Parliament.
Undated
- Charles Babbage described his analytical engine. (see also history of computing hardware)
- Parliament passes the Slavery Abolition Act giving all slaves in the British Empire their freedom from August 1834.
Publications
- Serialisation of Charles Dickens' Sketches by Boz in the Morning Chronicle.
Births
- 23 January - Sir Lewis Morris, Anglo-Welsh poet (died 1907)
- 28 January - Charles George Gordon, British army officer and administrator (died 1885)
- 27 July - Thomas George Bonney, geologist (died 1923)
- 12 August - Aylmer Spicer Cameron, VC recipient (died 1909)
- 28 August - Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Anglo-Welsh artist (died 1898)
- Francis Anstie, physician and medical researcher (died 1874)
- date unknown - James James, harpist and composer of the Welsh national anthem (died 1902)
Deaths
- 9 January - Sir Thomas Foley, admiral (born 1757)
- 23 January - Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, admiral (born 1757)
- 16 April - Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon (born 1772)
- 22 April - Richard Trevithick, inventor, engineer and builder of the first working railway steam locomotive (born 1771)
- 15 May - Edmund Kean, actor (born 1787)
- 2 June - Simon Byrne, prize fighter (born 1806)
- 10 July - George Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover, man of letters (born 1797)
- 29 July - William Wilberforce, abolitionist (born 1759)
- 11 November - James Grant, navigator (born 1772)
References
- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- "Icons, a portrait of England 1820-1840". Retrieved 2007-09-12.