1833 facts for kids

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

Events

• January 3 – Britain invades the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
• March 2 – United States President Andrew Jackson signs the Force Act, which authorizes him to use troops to enforce federal law in South Carolina.
• March 4 – Ayya Vaikundar incarnated from the sea of Thiruchendur as the avatar of Kali Yukam.
• June 6 – U.S. President Jackson becomes the first President to ride a train.
• September 29 – The infant 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.
• December 14 – The assassination of Kaspar Hauser, who dies three days later on December 17.
• Charles Babbage described his analytical engine. (see also history of computing hardware)
• The dawn of biochemistry: discovery of the first enzyme, diastase, by Anselme Payen.
• The British Parliament passes the Slavery Abolition Act giving all slaves in the British Empire their freedom.
• Heard Island and the McDonald Islands discovered.