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Historical Event(s)
– US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
– Wake Forest University is established.
– York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
– Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
– In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.
– Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.
– Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
– Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
– The Battle of Pinjarra is fought in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
– Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
Who Were Born On ?
– William John Wills, English explorer (d. 1861)
– Lord Acton, British historian (d. 1902)
– Robert R. Hitt, American politician (d. 1906)
– Edwin Klebs, German-born Swiss pathologist (d. 1913)
– Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and inventor (d. 1900)
– Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (d. 1890)
– Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie, French philosopher (d. 1895)
– Frans de Cort, Flemish writer (d. 1878)
– Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (d. 1904)
– Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (d. 1886)