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List of events
1833 Eagle map of the U.S. Events from the year 1833 in the United States .
Incumbents Events March 4: Martin Van Buren becomes the eighth U.S. vice president January–March April–June May 11 – French-American farmhand Antoine le Blanc murders family of three.[2]
June 6 – railroad
train. July–September July 29 – .
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 – . October–December November 12–13 – 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
Ongoing Nullification Crisis
(1832–1833)Births Benjamin Harrison 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 – 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 )[3]
March 17 – Charles Edwin Wilbour , Egyptologist (died 1896 )
May 24 – John Killefer , businessman and inventor (died 1926 )
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
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 – 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 External links
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