Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century Decades: 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s Years: 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 - 1833 - 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 Table of contents 1 Events 2 Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Heads of states Events January 3 - Britain seizes control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. September 29 - The infant Isabella II becomes Queen of Spain, under the regency of her mother, Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. Her uncle Don Carlos, Conde de Molina challenges her claim, beginning the First Carlist War. Charles Babbage described his Analytical engine. (see also History of computing hardware) The dawn of biochemistry : discovery of the first enzyme, diastase, by Anselme Payen. The British Parliament passes the Slavery Abolition Act giving all slaves in the British Empire their freedom. Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy 1833 in literature: 1833 in science Births February 11 - Melville Weston Fuller 8th chief justice of the United States. February 28 - Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (+ 1913) May 7 - Johannes Brahms, composer (+ 1897) July 27 - Thomas George Bonney (+ 1923), Alps geologist October 21 - Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, creator of the Nobel Prize November 9 - Émile Gaboriau, writer (+ 1873) November 12 - Alexander Borodin, composer December 20 - Dr. Samuel Mudd, doctor to John Wilkes Booth Deaths Roy, Ram Mohan July 2 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader September 29 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain Heads of states Ottoman Empire - Mahmud II Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808-1839) Prussia - Frederick William III King of Prussia (1797-1840) This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.