1823
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This article is about the year 1823.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
| Decades: | 1790s 1800s 1810s – 1820s – 1830s 1840s 1850s |
| Years: | 1820 1821 1822 – 1823 – 1824 1825 1826 |
| 1823 in topic: |
| Humanities |
| Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature – Music |
| By country |
| Australia – Canada – France – Germany – Mexico – South Africa – US – UK |
| Other topics |
| Rail Transport – Science – Sports |
| Lists of leaders |
| Colonial Governors – State leaders |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births – Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Works category |
| Works |
| Gregorian calendar | 1823 MDCCCXXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2576 |
| Armenian calendar | 1272 ԹՎ ՌՄՀԲ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -21 – -20 |
| Bengali calendar | 1230 |
| Berber calendar | 2773 |
| British Regnal year | 3 Geo. 4 – 4 Geo. 4 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2367 |
| Burmese calendar | 1185 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7331 – 7332 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬午年十一月二十日 (4459/4519-11-20) — to —
癸未年十一月三十日(4460/4520-11-30) |
| Coptic calendar | 1539 – 1540 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1815 – 1816 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5583 – 5584 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1879 – 1880 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1745 – 1746 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4924 – 4925 |
| Holocene calendar | 11823 |
| Iranian calendar | 1201 – 1202 |
| Islamic calendar | 1238 – 1239 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunsei 6 (文政6年) |
| Korean calendar | 4156 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2366 |
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Year 1823 (MDCCCXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–March
- February 3 – Gioachino Rossini's Semiramide is first performed.
- March 19 – Agustin de Iturbide, Emperor of Mexico, abdicate thus ending the short lived First Mexican Empire.
[edit] April–June
- April 13 – Eleven-year-old Franz Liszt gives a concert after which he is personally congratulated by Ludwig van Beethoven.
- June 5 – Raffles Institution, then the Singapore Institution, was founded by the founder of Singapore, Sir Stamford Raffles.
[edit] July–September
- July 1– The congress of Central America declares absolute independence from Spain, Mexico, and any other foreign nation, including North America and a Republican system of government is established.
- 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.
[edit] October–December
- December 2 – James Monroe first introduces the Monroe Doctrine in the State of the Union Address, declaring that any European attempts to recolonize the Americas would be considered a hostile act towards the United States.
[edit] Date unknown
- 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.
[edit] Births
[edit] January–June
- 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 I, 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)
- June 21 – Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (d. 1873)
[edit] July–December
- July 18 – Felix du Temple de la Croix, French Army Captain & aviation pioneer (d. 1890)
- August 5 – Eliza Tibbets, mother of the California orange industry (d. 1898)
- 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)
[edit] Date unknown
- James Black, American temperance movement leader (d. 1893)
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January–June
- 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)
[edit] July–December
- 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)
