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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.
– 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.
– Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
– The Zollverein (German Customs Union) begins the first regular census in Germany.
Who Were Born On ?
– Samuel Arza Davenport, American politician (d. 1911)
– George D. Robinson, 34th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
– William Morris, English writer and designer (d. 1896)
– Artemus Ward, American comic writer (d. 1867)
– Viktor Hartmann, Russian architect and painter (d. 1873)
– Charles Spurgeon, English preacher (d. 1892)
– Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet (d. 1908)
– Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer (d. 1906)
– Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author (d. 1872)
– Léon Walras, French economist (d. 1910)