1833 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1833 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
- Monarch â William IV
- Prime Minister â Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (Whig)
- Foreign Secretary â Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
- Home Secretary â William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
- Secretary of War â Earl of Ripon (until 3 April) Edward Smith-Stanley (from 3 April)
Events
- 3 January â Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands by British forces in the South Atlantic.
- 31 January â Francis Goldsmid is the first Jew to become an English barrister.[1][2]
- 18 April â 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.[3]
- 25 May â Royal Horticultural Society holds the first flower show in Britain.[4]
- 14 July â John Keble preaches a sermon on "National Apostasy" (in part a protest against the Church Temporalities (Ireland) Act 1833), launching the Oxford Movement within the Church of England.[5]
- August â Parliament introducess annual grants for 50% of the cost of constructing new denominational elementary schools.
- 28 August
- The Slavery Abolition Act receives Royal 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 allows Quakers and Moravians to substitute an affirmation for a legal oath in accordance with their religious beliefs. As a result, Joseph Pease becomes the first Quaker to take his seat in Parliament.
- Bank Notes Act gives Bank of England notes over £5 in value the status of "legal tender" in England and Wales.[6]
- 29 August â 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.[7]
- 31 August â 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.[8]
- December â Edwin Chadwick introduces the Ten Hours Bill in Parliament.
- Undated â 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 â Sir Lewis Morris, Anglo-Welsh poet (died 1907)
- 28 January â Charles George Gordon, British army officer and administrator (died 1885)
- 27 July â Thomas George Bonney, geologist (d. 1923)
- 12 August â Aylmer Cameron, VC recipient (d. 1909)
- 26 August â Henry Fawcett, statesman, economist and Postmaster General (d. 1884)
- 28 August â Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Anglo-Welsh artist (d. 1898)
- 4 November â James James, harpist and composer of the Welsh national anthem (d. 1902)
- 11 December â Francis E. Anstie, physician and medical researcher (d. 1874)
Deaths
- 9 January â Sir Thomas Foley, admiral (b. 1757)
- 23 January â Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, admiral (b. 1757)
- 16 April â Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon (b. 1772)
- 22 April â 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 â Simon Byrne, prizefighter (b. 1806)
- 10 July â George Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover, politician and man of letters (b. 1797)
- 29 July â William Wilberforce, abolitionist (b. 1759)
- 27 September â Ram Mohan Roy, Bengali reformer (b. 1772)
- 11 November â James Grant, navigator (b. 1772)
- 3 December â Adam Buck, Irish-born neo-classical portraitist and miniature painter (b. 1759)