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Events from the year 1833 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents- Monarch – William IV
- Prime Minister – Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (Whig)
- Parliament – 11th (starting 29 January)
Events- 3 January – reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands by British forces in the South Atlantic.
- 25 May – Royal Horticultural Society holds the first flower show in Britain.[1]
- 5 June – Ada Lovelace is introduced to Charles Babbage by Mary Somerville.[2]
- 14 July – John Keble preaches a sermon on "National Apostasy", launching the Oxford Movement within the Church of England.[3]
- 28 August – the Slavery Abolition Act receives Royal Assent, abolishing slavery in most of the British Empire. A £20 million fund is established to compensate slaveowners.
- 29 August – 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.[4]
- December – Edwin Chadwick introduces the Ten Hours Bill in Parliament.
Undated- Bank Notes Act gives Bank of England notes over £5 in value the status of "legal tender" in England and Wales.[5]
- Quakers and Moravians Act allows Quakers and Moravians to substitute an affirmation for a legal oath in accordance with their religious beliefs.
- The Preston Temperance Society is founded by Joseph Livesey, pioneering the temperance movement and teetotalism.[6]
- 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.[7]
- 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 – Sir Lewis Morris, Anglo-Welsh poet (died 1907)
- 28 January – Charles George Gordon, British army officer and administrator (died 1885)
- 27 July – Thomas George Bonney, geologist (d. 1923)
- 12 August – Aylmer Spicer Cameron, VC recipient (d. 1909)
- 26 August – Henry Fawcett, statesman, economist and Postmaster General (d. 1884)
- 28 August – Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Anglo-Welsh artist (d. 1898)
- 11 December Francis Anstie, physician and medical researcher (d. 1874)
- date unknown – James James, harpist and composer of the Welsh national anthem (d. 1902)
Deaths- 9 January – Sir Thomas Foley, admiral (b. 1757)
- 23 January – Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, admiral (b. 1757)
- 16 April – Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon (b. 1772)
- 22 April – 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 – Simon Byrne, prizefighter (b. 1806)
- 10 July – George Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover, man of letters (b. 1797)
- 29 July – William Wilberforce, abolitionist (b. 1759)
- 11 November – James Grant, navigator (b. 1772)
- 3 December – Adam Buck, Irish-born neo-classical portraitist and miniature painter (b. 1759)
See alsoReferences1. ^{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}} 2. ^{{cite book|first=Anthony|last=Hyman|title=Charles Babbage: pioneer of the computer|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1982|isbn=0-19-858170-X|pages=177–8}} 3. ^{{cite web|first=Perry|last=Butler|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15231|title=Keble, John (1792–1866)|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|edition=Online|accessdate=2014-05-16}} {{ODNBsub}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1820-1840|title=Icons, a portrait of England 1820–1840|accessdate=2007-09-12|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070922055840/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1820-1840|archivedate=22 September 2007|deadurl=yes}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/about/history.htm|title=A brief history of banknotes|accessdate=2007-10-08|author=Bank of England}} 6. ^{{cite book|last1=Gately|first1=Iain|title=Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol|year=2009|publisher=Gotham Books|location=New York|isbn=978-1-592-40464-3|page=248}} 7. ^{{cite book|last=Robson|first=John|chapter=The Fiat and Finger of God: The Bridgewater Treatises|editor=Lightman, Bernard |editor2=Frank Turner |title=Victorian Faith in Crisis: Essays on Continuity and Change in Nineteenth-Century Religious Belief|year=1990}}
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