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Historical Event(s)
– US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
– 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.
– The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.
– Joaquim António de Aguiar issue a law extinguishing “all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses of the regular religious orders”, earning him the nickname of “The Friar-Killer”.
– 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.
– 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 ?
– Wilhelm von Scherff, German general and military writer (d. 1911)
– Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist and philosopher (d. 1919)
– James Hector, Scottish geologist (d. 1907)
– John Wesley Powell, American explorer and environmentalist (d. 1902)
– Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (d. 1890)
– Jan Neruda, Czech poet (d. 1891)
– Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (d. 1903)
– Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (d. 1924)