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1823

This article is about the year 1823.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
  • 1820
  • 1821
  • 1822
  • 1823
  • 1824
  • 1825
  • 1826
1823 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1823
MDCCCXXIII
Ab urbe condita2576
Armenian calendar1272
ԹՎ ՌՄՀԲ
Assyrian calendar6573
Balinese saka calendar1744–1745
Bengali calendar1230
Berber calendar2773
British Regnal year3 Geo. 4 – 4 Geo. 4
Buddhist calendar2367
Burmese calendar1185
Byzantine calendar7331–7332
Chinese calendar壬午年 (Water Horse)
4519 or 4459
— to —
癸未年 (Water Goat)
4520 or 4460
Coptic calendar1539–1540
Discordian calendar2989
Ethiopian calendar1815–1816
Hebrew calendar5583–5584
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1879–1880
 - Shaka Samvat1744–1745
 - Kali Yuga4923–4924
Holocene calendar11823
Igbo calendar823–824
Iranian calendar1201–1202
Islamic calendar1238–1239
Japanese calendarBunsei 6
(文政６年)
Javanese calendar1750–1751
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4156
Minguo calendar89 before ROC
民前89年
Nanakshahi calendar355
Thai solar calendar2365–2366
Tibetan calendar阳水马年
(male Water-Horse)
1949 or 1568 or 796
— to —
阴水羊年
(female Water-Goat)
1950 or 1569 or 797

August 18: Demerara rebellion begins.

1823 (MDCCCXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1823rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 823rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 23rd year of the 19th century, and the 4th year of the 1820s decade. As of the start of 1823, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

January–March

April–June

July–September

  • July 1 – The Congress of Central America declares absolute independence from Spain, Mexico and any other foreign nation, including North America, and a republican system of government is established.
  • July – Robert Peel ensures the passage of five Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom, effectively abolishing the death penalty for over one hundred offences;[7] in particular, the Judgement of Death Act allows judges to commute sentences for capital offences (other than murder or treason) to imprisonment or transportation.[8] The Transportation Act of July 4 allows convicts transported to the colonies to be employed on public works.[7]
  • July 10 – The Gaols Act is passed by Parliament of the United Kingdom, based on the prison reform campaign of Elizabeth Fry.[7]
  • July 15 – The Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome is almost completely destroyed by fire.[9]
  • August 1 – William Pitt Amherst arrives in Calcutta with Lady Amherst, to become the new Governor-General of India.[10]
  • August 4 – Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop, the Mexican government administrator in charge of Anglo-American immigration into Mexico's state of Coahuila y Tejas, allows Stephen F. Austin to put together an 11-man police force, that will later be expanded to become the Texas Ranger Division.[11]
  • August 5 – The Royal Hibernian Academy is founded in Dublin.[12]
  • August 16 – Tsar Alexander I of Russia draws up a secret "manifesto", designating his second younger brother Nikolai to succeed him, bypassing Nikolai's older brother, Grand Duke Konstantin. The existence of the manifesto is revealed on Alexander's death in 1825.[13]
  • August 18 – Demerara rebellion of 1823: In British Guiana (South America), an insurrection of 10,000 black slaves begins; it is suppressed after three days, but hundreds of suspects are executed in the reprisals that follow.[14]
  • August 20 – Pope Pius VII dies after a reign of more than 23 years that began on March 14, 1800; he is remembered for crowning Napoleon Bonaparte as Emperor of France.[15]
  • August 24 – Hugh Glass gets mauled by a sow grizzly while on a fur trapping expedition in the Missouri Territory.[16]
  • August 31 – Battle of Trocadero: French infantry of the "Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis" capture the fort of Trocadero and turn its guns on Cádiz.
  • September 10 – Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.
  • September 22 – Joseph Smith first goes to the place near Manchester, New York, where the golden plates are stored, having been directed there by God through an angel (according to what he writes in 1838).
  • September 23 – First Anglo-Burmese War: Burmese forces attack the British on Shapura, an island close to Chittagong.
  • September 28 – Roman Catholic Cardinal Annibale della Genga is elected Pope Leo XII.[15]
  • September 30 – Cádiz surrenders to the French and Ferdinand VII of Spain is restored to his throne, immediately repealing the liberal Spanish Constitution of 1812.

October–December

  • October 5 – Medical journal The Lancet is founded by Thomas Wakley in London.
  • November 3 – An explosion at the Rainton Colliery Company's Plain Pit mine at Chilton Moor in the north of England, kills 57 coal miners.[17]
  • November – According to tradition, William Webb Ellis invents the sport of rugby football at Rugby School in England.[7]
  • December 2 – James Monroe first introduces the Monroe Doctrine in the State of the Union address, declaring that any European attempts to recolonize the Americas would be considered a hostile act towards the United States.

Undated

  • The first Anglo-Ashanti War begins.
  • Olbers' paradox is described by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers.
  • Work begins on the British Museum in London, designed by Robert Smirke, and the Altes Museum in Berlin, designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
  • The Oxford Union is founded as a student debating society in England.

Births

January–June

Abdülmecid I

July–December

  • July 9 (date uncertain) – Phineas Gage, improbable American head injury survivor (d. 1860)
  • July 18
  • July 23 – Coventry Patmore, English poet (d. 1896)
  • August 3 – Thomas Francis Meagher, American Civil War general (d. 1867)
  • August 4 – Oliver P. Morton, American politician (d. 1877)
  • August 5 – Eliza Tibbets, mother of the California orange industry (d. 1898)
  • August 10
    • Hugh Stowell Brown, Manx preacher (d. 1886)
    • Charles Keene, English artist, illustrator (d. 1891)
  • August 11 – Charlotte Mary Yonge, English author (d. 1901)
  • August 13 – Goldwin Smith, English historian (d. 1910)
  • August 14 – Karel Miry, Belgian composer (d. 1889)
  • August 15 – Orris S. Ferry, American Civil War general and politician (d. 1875)
  • August 23 – Nil Izvorov, Bulgarian Orthodox priest and venerable (d. 1905)
  • September 16 – Ludwik Teichmann, Polish anatomist (d. 1895)
  • November 1 – Lascăr Catargiu, 4-time Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1899)
  • November 8 – Joseph Monier, French inventor (d. 1906)
  • November 16 – Henry G. Davis, American politician (d. 1916)
  • November 18 – Charles H. Bell, American politician (d. 1893)
  • November 21 – Andrzej Jerzy Mniszech, Polish painter (d. 1905)
  • November 25 – Henry Wirz, Swiss-born American Confederate military officer, prisoner-of-war camp commander (d. 1865)
  • December 6 – Friedrich Max Müller, German Orientalist (d. 1900)
  • December 9 – Rosalie Olivecrona, Swedish women's rights activist (d. 1898)
  • December 13 – Ferdinand Büchner, German composer (d. 1906)
  • December 22 – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, American Unitarian minister, abolitionist (d. 1911)
  • December 27 – Sir Mackenzie Bowell, 5th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1917)

Undated

Deaths

January–June

July–December

  • July 8 – Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (b. 1756)
  • August 1 – Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier of Great Britain (b. 1758)
  • August 7 – Mátyás Laáb, Croatian writer, translator (b. 1746)
  • August 18 – John Treadwell, the fourth Governor of Connecticut (b. 1745)
  • August 20 – Pope Pius VII, Italian Benedictine (b. 1742)
  • August 22 – Lazare Carnot, French general, politician and mathematician (b. 1753)
  • August 30 – Pierre Prévost, French panorama painter (b. 1764)
  • September 11 – David Ricardo, English economist (b. 1772)
  • September 17 – Abraham-Louis Breguet, Swiss horologist, inventor (b. 1747)
  • September 23 – Matthew Baillie, Scottish physician, pathologist (b. 1761)
  • September 28 – Charlotte Melmoth, English-born American actress (b. 1749)
  • November 9 – Vasily Kapnist, Ukrainian-Russian poet, dramatist (b. 1758)
  • November 11 – Richard Richards, British judge and politician (b. 1752)
  • December 3 – Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Italian explorer, pioneer archaeologist of Egypt (b. 1778)

References

  1. ^ Aldhouse-Green, Stephen (October 2001). "Great Sites: Paviland Cave". British Archaeology (61). Retrieved July 16, 2010.
  2. ^ According to Gustav Schilling.
  3. ^ Bethell, Leslie (1985). Brazil: Empire and Republic, 1822-1930. Cambridge University Press. p. 49.
  4. ^ "Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov", in Encyclopædia Britannica 28 (1910) p. 213.
  5. ^ Hasty, Olga Peters (1999). Pushkin's Tatiana. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 14.
  6. ^ Robert Huish, The Memoirs Private and Political of Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P., His Times and Contemporaries (W. Johnston, 1836) p129
  7. ^ a b c d Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 252–253. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  8. ^ "Timeline of capital punishment in Britain". Retrieved March 3, 2012.
  9. ^ "Fires, Great", in Walford, Cornelius, ed. The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance. C. & E. Layton, 1876. p.71.
  10. ^ The Cambridge Modern History, Volume 11 (Macmillan, 1909) p727
  11. ^ Robert M. Utley, Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers (Oxford University Press, 2002)
  12. ^ Vaughn, W. E., ed. (1976). A New History of Ireland: Ireland Under the Union, 1870-1921. Clarendon Press. p. 423.
  13. ^ Donald J. Raleigh and A.A. Iskenderov, The Emperors and Empresses of Russia: Reconsidering the Romanovs (Routledge, 2015)
  14. ^ Gelien Matthews, Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement (LSU Press, 2006) p21
  15. ^ a b Charles A. Coulombe, Vicars of Christ: A History of the Popes (Citadel Press, 2003) pp393-397
  16. ^ As featured in the 2002 novel The Revenant and 2015 film of the same title.
  17. ^ Anderson, Maureen (2008). Durham Mining Disasters: c1700-1950s. Barnsley: Wharncliffe.
  18. ^ Youssef Bey Karam on Ehden Family Tree website

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