1833 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1833 in the United Kingdom.
[edit] Events
- January 3, British invades the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
- August 29 - Child labor: Factory Act makes illegal to employ children less than 9 years old in factories and limits the child workers 9 to 13 years of age to maximum of 9 hours a day
- December - Edwin Chadwick introduces the Ten Hours Bill
- Charles Babbage described his analytical engine. (see also history of computing hardware)
- The British Parliament passes the Slavery Abolition Act giving all slaves in the British Empire their freedom.
[edit] Births
- 28 January - Charles George Gordon, British army officer and administrator (d. 1885)
- 27 July - Thomas George Bonney, geologist (d. 1923)
- Francis Anstie, physician and medical researcher (d. 1874)
[edit] Deaths
- 23 January - Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, admiral (b. 1757)
- 22 April - Richard Trevithick, inventor, engineer and builder of the first working railway steam locomotive (born 1771)
- 15 May - Edmund Kean, actor (b. 1787)
- 2 June - Simon Byrne, prize fighter (b. 1806)
- 29 July - William Wilberforce, abolitionist (b. 1759)