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1823
1823
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Undated
• Orford Parish of East Hartford, Connecticut separates and is incorporated as the Town of Manchester by a special act of the Connecticut General Assembly. • Francisco Goya finishes the painting Saturn Devouring His Son • Ferdinand VII revokes the Spanish Constitution of 1812 and restores absolute monarchy (See also Mid-nineteenth century Spain) • The word ’gallivant’ is officially adopted by Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary. • The Olbers’ paradox is described by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers. • Jackson Male Academy, precursor of Union University, is founded in Tennessee. • The Oxford Union is founded. • William Webb Ellis "invents" Rugby football.
1820 1821 1822 - 1823 - 1824 1825 1826
Year 1823 (MDCCCXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1823
• February 3 – Gioachino Rossini’s Semiramide is first performed. • April 13 – Eleven-year-old Franz Liszt gives a concert after which he is personally congratulated by Ludwig van Beethoven. • March 19 – Agustin de Iturbide, Emperor of Mexico, abidicate thus ending the short lived First Mexican Empire • June 5 – Raffles Institution, then the Singapore Institution, was founded by the founder of Singapore, Sir Stamford Raffles. • July 15 – The Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome is almost completely destroyed by fire. • September 10 – Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru. • September 22 – Joseph Smith, Jr. says that he was directed by God through the angel Moroni to the place where the Golden plates are stored. • September 28 – Pope Leo XII succeeds Pope Pius VII as the 252nd pope. • November 15 – Chief Lone Horn succeeds (probably) his father, and becomes chief of the Minneconjou Sioux; he will be chief until his death on 16 October 1875. • December 2 – Monroe Doctrine: The USA separates the spheres of influence between Europe and the Americas, forbidding any further European colonization.
Births
1823 in other calendars Gregorian calendar Ab urbe condita Armenian calendar Bahá’í calendar Berber calendar Buddhist calendar Burmese calendar Byzantine calendar Chinese calendar 1823 MDCCCXXIII 2576 1272 ?? ???? -21 – -20 2773 2367 1185 7331 – 7332
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1823
• June 21 – Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (d. 1873) • August 10 – Hugh Stowell Brown, Manx preacher (d.1886) • August 13 – Goldwin Smith, English historian (d. 1910) • December 6 – Friedrich Max Müller, German Orientalist (d. 1900) • date unknown – James Black, American temperance movement leader (d. 1893)
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Deaths
• January 21 – Gideon Olin, U.S. politician (b. 1743) • January 26 – Edward Jenner, English physician and medical researcher (b. 1749) • February 7 – Ann Radcliffe, English writer (b. 1764) • February 21 – Charles Wolfe, Irish poet (b. 1791) • March 1 – Pierre-Jean Garat, opera singer (b. 1764) • March 14 • Charles François Dumouriez, French general (b. 1739) • John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, British Royal Navy admiral (b. 1735) • March 18 – Jean-Baptiste Breval, French cellist (b. 1753) • June 1 – Louis Nicolas Davout, French marshal (b. 1770) • August 20 – Pope Pius VII (b. 1740) • August 22 – Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (b. 1753) • September 11 – David Ricardo, English economist (b. 1772) • September 23 – Matthew Baillie, Scottish physician and pathologist (b. 1761) • November 9 – Vasily Kapnist, poet and dramatist (b. 1758)
• January 1 – Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian poet and revolutionary (d. 1849) • January 8 – Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (d. 1913) • January 27 – Edouard Lalo, French composer (d. 1892) • February 27 – Ernest Renan, French philosopher and writer (d. 1892) • March 14 – Théodore de Banville, French writer (d. 1891) • March 20 – Ned Buntline, American publisher, writer, and publicist (d. 1886) • March 23 – Schuyler Colfax, Vice President of the United States (d. 1885) • April 3 – William Marcy Tweed, American political boss (d. 1878) • April 23 – Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1861) • May 22 – Solomon Bundy, American politician (d. 1889) • May 26 – William Pryor Letchworth, founder of Letchworth State Park • July 6 – Sophie Adlersparre, Swedish feminist (d. 1895) • June 13 David Breakenridge Read, Mayor of Toronto (d.1904)
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