1833 in the United States

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1833 Eagle map of the U.S.

Events from the year 1833 in the United States.

Incumbents[]

Federal Government[]

  • President: Andrew Jackson (D-Tennessee)
  • Vice President: vacant (until March 4), Martin Van Buren (D-New York) (starting March 4)
  • Chief Justice: John Marshall (Virginia)
  • Speaker of the House of Representatives: Andrew Stevenson (D-Virginia)
  • Congress: 22nd (until March 4), 23rd (starting March 4)

Events[]

March 4: Martin Van Buren becomes the eighth U.S. Vice President

January–March[]

  • January 1 – Haverford College, located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, is founded by Quakers of the Society of Friends.
  • March 2 – President Andrew Jackson signs the Force Bill, which authorizes him to use troops to enforce Federal law in South Carolina.
  • March 4 – Andrew Jackson is sworn in for his second term as President of the United States,[1] and Martin Van Buren is sworn in as Vice President of the United States.
  • March 16 – Parley's Magazine, a periodical for young readers, publishes its first issue in Boston.

April–June[]

  • May 11 – French-American farmhand Antoine le Blanc murders family of three.[2]
  • June 6 – Andrew Jackson becomes the first U.S. President to ride a railroad train.

July–September[]

  • July 29 – Old State Bank erected in Decatur, Alabama.
  • August 12 – The city of Chicago is established at the estuary of the Chicago River by 350 settlers.
  • August 20 – Future President of the United States Benjamin Harrison is born in Ohio. From this date until the death of former U.S. President James Madison on June 28, 1836, there are a total of 18 living presidents of the United States (2 former, 1 current, and 15 known future); more than any other time period in U.S. history.
  • September 2 – Oberlin College is founded in Oberlin, Ohio by John Shipherd and .

October–December[]

  • November 12–13 – Stars Fell on Alabama: A spectacular occurrence of the Leonid meteor shower is observed in Alabama.
  • November 24 – Psi Upsilon is founded at Union College, becoming the fifth fraternity in the United States.
  • December
    • American Anti-Slavery Society founded in Philadelphia by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan.
    • Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society is founded; founder members include Sarah Mapps Douglass, Charlotte Forten Grimké and Hetty Reckless.

Ongoing[]

  • Nullification Crisis (1832–1833)

Births[]

  • January 2 – Frederick A. Johnson, politician (died 1893)
  • January 18 – Joseph S. Skerrett, admiral (died 1893)
  • February 6 – J. E. B. Stuart, United States Army officer; Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War (died 1864)
  • February 11 – Melville Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (died 1910)
  • March 9 – Thomas W. Osborn, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1868 to 1873 (died 1898)
  • March 14 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor, dentist (died 1910)
  • March 17 – Charles Edwin Wilbour, Egyptologist (died 1896)
  • May 27 – Hester Martha Poole, writer, poet and art critic (died 1932)
  • June 10 – Pauline Cushman, born Harriet Wood, actress and Union spy in the American Civil War (died 1893)
  • June 19 – Mary Tenney Gray, editorial writer, club-woman, philanthropist and suffragette (died 1904)
  • August 7 – Powell Clayton, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1868 to 1871 (died 1914)
  • August 12
    • Lillie Devereux Blake, writer and reformer (died 1913)
    • Isaac L. Ellwood, businessman, rancher and inventor (died 1910)
  • August 16 – Eliza Ann Otis, poet, newspaper publisher and philanthropist (died 1904)
  • August 20 – Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States from 1889 to 1893 (died 1901)
  • September 21 – James Harvey, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1833 to 1873 (died 1894)
  • October 2 – William Corby, Catholic priest (died 1897)
  • October 8 – Edmund Clarence Stedman, poet, critic, essayist, banker and scientist (died 1908)
  • November 2 – Horace Howard Furness, Shakespearean scholar (died 1912)
  • November 12 – John Martin, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1893 to 1895 (died 1913)
  • November 13 – Edwin Booth, tragic actor (died 1893)
  • December 6 – John S. Mosby, Confederate army cavalry battalion commander in the American Civil War (died 1916)
  • December 20 – Samuel Mudd, physician implicated in John Wilkes Booth's assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865 (died 1883)
  • December 29 – John James Ingalls, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1873 to 1891 (died 1900)

Deaths[]

  • January 17 – William Rush, sculptor (born 1756)
  • May 19 – Josiah S. Johnston, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1824 to 1833 (born 1784)
  • May 23 – Francesca Anna Canfield, poet and translator (born 1803)
  • May 24 – John Randolph, planter and congressman, U.S. senator from Virginia from 1825 to 1827 (born 1773)
  • June 1 – Oliver Wolcott Jr., 2nd U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (born 1760)
  • July 12 – Samuel Sterett, politician (born 1758)
  • July 20 – Ninian Edwards, politician, Governor of and Senator from Illinois (born 1775)
  • July 27 – William Bainbridge, United States Navy officer (born 1774)
  • September 28 – Lemuel Haynes, clergyman and veteran of the American Revolution (born 1753)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States : from George Washington 1789 to George Bush 1989". avalon.law.yale.edu. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  2. ^ Martinelli, Patricia A. (2007). True Crime, New Jersey: The State's Most Notorious Criminal Cases. Stackpole Books. pp. 7–8. ISBN 9780811734288.

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