1833 in the United Kingdom

1833 in the United Kingdom:

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Sport

1833 English cricket season

Events from the year 1833 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch - William IV
• Prime Minister - Earl Grey (Whig)

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.
• 14 July - John Keble preaches a sermon on "National Apostasy", launching the Oxford Movement within the Church of England.
• 28 August - The Slavery Abolition Act receives Royal Assent, abolishing slavery in most of the British Empire.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Publications

• First of the Bridgewater Treatises, examining science in relation to God.
• 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, inventor, engineer and builder of the first working railway steam locomotive (b. 1771)
• 15 May
  • Edmund Kean, actor (b. 1787)
  • Bewick Bridge, mathematician (b. 1767)
• 2 June - Simon Byrne, prize fighter (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)