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1833 in the United Kingdom

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1833 in the United Kingdom

Other years

1831 |1832 |1833 (1833) |1834 |1835

Constituent countries of the United Kingdom

England |Ireland |Scotland |Wales

Sport

1833 English cricket season

Events from the year1833 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

Monarch –William IV
Prime Minister –Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (Whig)
Foreign Secretary –Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Secretary of War –Earl of Ripon (until 3 April)Edward Smith-Stanley (from 3 April)

Events

3 January –Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands by British forces in theSouth 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]
14 July –John Keble preaches a sermon on "National Apostasy" (in part a protest against theChurch Temporalities (Ireland) Act 1833), launching theOxford Movement within theChurch of England.^[3]
August – Parliament begins annual grants for 50% of the cost of constructing new denominational schools.
28 August
- TheSlavery Abolition Act receivesRoyal Assent, abolishing slavery in most of the British Empire, coming into effect 1 August 1834. A £20 million fund is established to compensate slaveowners.
- Quakers and Moravians Act allowsQuakers andMoravians to substitute anaffirmation for a legaloath in accordance with their religious beliefs. As a result,Joseph Pease becomes the first Quaker to take his seat in Parliament.
29 August – TheFactory Act makes it illegal toemploy 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.^[4]
31 August – Chartered shipAmphitrite sinks offBoulogne-sur-Mer while undertaking thepenal transportation of 108 British female convicts and 12 children fromWoolwich toNew South Wales with the loss of 133 lives; only 3 crew survive.^[5]
December –Edwin Chadwick introduces theTen Hours Bill in Parliament.

Undated

Bank Notes Act givesBank of England notes over £5 in value the status of "legal tender" in England and Wales.^[6]
Francis Goldsmid is the first Jew to become an English barrister.^[7]
ThePreston Temperance Society is founded byJoseph Livesey, pioneering thetemperance movement andteetotalism.^[8]
Laying out ofMoor Park, Preston, by the local authority as a (partly)public park begins.

Publications

First of theBridgewater Treatises, examining science in relation to God.^[9]
Serialisation ofThomas Carlyle'sSartor Resartus inFraser's Magazine.
Charles Dickens' first published work of fiction, "A Dinner at Poplar Walk", first of what will becomeSketches by Boz, appears unsigned in theMonthly Magazine (London, 1 December).
Edward Bulwer's novelGodolphin.
MrsFavell Lee Mortimer's instructional textThe Peep of Day, or, A series of the earliest religious instruction the infant mind is capable of receiving.
Alfred Tennyson's collectionPoems including "The Lady of Shalott".
Publication ofThe Penny Cyclopædia of theSociety for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge edited byGeorge Long begins.
William Sandys' collectionChristmas Carols Ancient and Modern.

Births

23 January – SirLewis 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 Cameron, VC recipient (d. 1909)
26 August –Henry Fawcett, statesman, economist and Postmaster General (d. 1884)
28 August – SirEdward Burne-Jones, Anglo-Welsh artist (d. 1898)
4 November –James James, harpist and composer of the Welsh national anthem (d. 1902)
11 December –Francis E. Anstie, physician and medical researcher (d. 1874)

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, politician and man of letters (b. 1797)
29 July –William Wilberforce, abolitionist (b. 1759)
27 September –Ram Mohan Roy, Bengali reformer (b. 1772)
11 November –James Grant, navigator (b. 1772)
3 December –Adam Buck, Irish-born neo-classical portraitist and miniature painter (b. 1759)

References

^Whyte, Iain (2011).Zachary Macaulay 1768-1838: The Steadfast Scot in the British Anti-Slavery Movement. Liverpool University Press.
^Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006.ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
^Butler, Perry (2004)."Keble, John (1792–1866)".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15231. Retrieved16 May 2014. (Subscription orUK public library membership required.)
^"Icons, a portrait of England 1820–1840". Archived fromthe original on 22 September 2007. Retrieved12 September 2007.
^"Dreadful Shipwreck Off Boulogne".The Times. London, England. 4 September 1833. p. 5. Retrieved27 April 2018.
^Bank of England."A brief history of banknotes". Retrieved8 October 2007.
^Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911)."Goldsmid" .Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 214.
^Gately, Iain (2009).Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol. New York: Gotham Books. p. 248.ISBN 978-1-592-40464-3.
^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. Stanford University Press.ISBN 978-0-8047-1602-4.

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