1833 in the United Kingdom

1833 in the United Kingdom

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Sport

1833 English cricket season

Events from the year 1833 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch – William IV
• Prime Minister – Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (Whig)
• Parliament – 11th (starting 29 January)

Events

• 3 January – reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands by British forces in the South Atlantic.
• 18 April – over 300 delegates from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland travel to the office of the Prime Minister to call for the immediate abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire.[1]
• 25 May – Royal Horticultural Society holds the first flower show in Britain.[2]
• 5 June – Ada Lovelace is introduced to Charles Babbage by Mary Somerville.[3]
• 14 July – John Keble preaches a sermon on "National Apostasy", launching the Oxford Movement within the Church of England.[4]
• 28 August – the Slavery Abolition Act receives Royal Assent, abolishing slavery in most of the British Empire. A £20 million fund is established to compensate slaveowners.
• 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.[5]
• 31 August – chartered ship Amphitrite sinks off Boulogne-sur-Mer while undertaking the penal transportation of 108 British female convicts and 12 children from Woolwich to New South Wales with the loss of 133 lives; only 3 crew survive.[6]
• December – Edwin Chadwick introduces the Ten Hours Bill in Parliament.

Undated

• Bank Notes Act gives Bank of England notes over £5 in value the status of "legal tender" in England and Wales.[7]
• Quakers and Moravians Act allows Quakers and Moravians to substitute an affirmation for a legal oath in accordance with their religious beliefs.
• The Preston Temperance Society is founded by Joseph Livesey, pioneering the temperance movement and teetotalism.[8]
• Laying out of Moor Park, Preston, by the local authority as a (partly) public park begins.

Publications

• First of the Bridgewater Treatises, examining science in relation to God.[9]
• Serialisation of Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus in Fraser's Magazine.
• Charles Dickens' first published work of fiction, "A Dinner at Poplar Walk", first of what will become Sketches by Boz, appears unsigned in the Monthly Magazine (London, 1 December).
• Edward Bulwer's novel Godolphin.
• Mrs Favell Lee Mortimer's instructional text The Peep of Day, or, A series of the earliest religious instruction the infant mind is capable of receiving.
• Alfred Tennyson's collection Poems including "The Lady of Shalott".
• Publication of The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge edited by George Long begins.
• William Sandys' collection Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern.

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 (d. 1923)
• 12 August – Aylmer Spicer Cameron, VC recipient (d. 1909)
• 26 August – Henry Fawcett, statesman, economist and Postmaster General (d. 1884)
• 28 August – Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Anglo-Welsh artist (d. 1898)
• 11 December Francis Anstie, physician and medical researcher (d. 1874)
• date unknown – James James, harpist and composer of the Welsh national anthem (d. 1902)

Deaths

• 9 January – Sir Thomas Foley, admiral (b. 1757)
• 23 January – Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, admiral (b. 1757)
• 16 April – Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon (b. 1772)
• 22 April – Richard Trevithick, Cornish-born inventor, mechanical engineer and builder of the first working railway steam locomotive (b. 1771)
• 15 May
  • Bewick Bridge, mathematician (b. 1767)
  • Edmund Kean, actor (b. 1787)
• 2 June – Simon Byrne, prizefighter (b. 1806)
• 10 July – George Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover, man of letters (b. 1797)
• 29 July – William Wilberforce, abolitionist (b. 1759)
• 11 November – James Grant, navigator (b. 1772)
• 3 December – Adam Buck, Irish-born neo-classical portraitist and miniature painter (b. 1759)

See also

• 1833 in Scotland

References

1. Whyte, Iain (2011). Zachary Macaulay 1768-1838: The Steadfast Scot in the British Anti-Slavery Movement. Liverpool University Press.
2. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
3. Hyman, Anthony (1982). Charles Babbage: pioneer of the computer. Oxford University Press. pp. 177–8. ISBN 0-19-858170-X.
4. Butler, Perry (2004). "Keble, John (1792–1866)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 16 May 2014. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
5. "Icons, a portrait of England 1820–1840". Archived from the original on 22 September 2007. Retrieved 12 September 2007.
6. "Dreadful Shipwreck Off Boulogne". The Times. London, England. 4 September 1833. p. 5. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
7. Bank of England. "A brief history of banknotes". Retrieved 8 October 2007.
8. Gately, Iain (2009). Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol. New York: Gotham Books. p. 248. ISBN 978-1-592-40464-3.
9. Robson, John (1990). "The Fiat and Finger of God: The Bridgewater Treatises". In Lightman, Bernard; Frank Turner (eds.). Victorian Faith in Crisis: Essays on Continuity and Change in Nineteenth-Century Religious Belief.