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Events from the year 1833 in the United Kingdom.

3 January - British forces re-establish British rule on 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 is launched.
29 August - The Factory Act makes it illegal to employ children less than 9 years old in factories and limits child workers of 9 to 13 years of age to a maximum of 9 hours a day.
December - Edwin Chadwick introduces the Ten Hours Bill in Parliament.

Parliament passes the Slavery Abolition Act giving all slaves in the British Empire their freedom.
Bank Notes Act gives Bank of England notes over £5 in value the status of "legal tender" in England and Wales.

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)
26 August - Henry Fawcett, statesman, economist and Postmaster General (died 1884)
28 August - Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Anglo-Welsh artist (died 1898)
11 December Francis Anstie, physician and medical researcher (died 1874)
date unknown - James James, harpist and composer of the Welsh national anthem (died 1902)

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)
- Bewick Bridge, mathematician (born 1767)
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)

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"Icons, a portrait of England 1820-1840". Retrieved 2007-09-12.
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