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The windy city in the year 1833[/caption]
In the year 1833, U.S. President Andrew Jackson is attacked in Alexandria, Virginia (May 6), Dubai gains independence from the United Kingdom (Jun 9), a mob destroys the Mormon printing office in Jackson County, Missouri (Jul 20), the city of Chicago is established by 350 settlers (Aug 12), the British Parliament limits child labor with the Factory Acts (Aug 29), the American Anti-Slavery Society is founded - and all these fine people were born:
1833-xxxx John Glenn* Calgary’s known earliest recorded European settler - Mayo County, Ireland (1883/c.50) 1833-0101 Robert Lawson* Scottish-New Zealandese architect - Newburgh, Fife, Scotland (1902/69) 1833-0105 Sophus Bugge* philologist/ linguist/runic inscriptions researcher - Larvik, Norway (1907/74) 1833-0107 Henry Roscoe* chemist - London, England (1915/82) 1833-0110 1833-0118 Joseph S. Skerrett* U.S. Navy officer - Chillicothe, OH USA (1897/63) 1833-0118 Kaarlo Slöör* poet/translator/ journalist - Viipuri, GD of Finland (1905/72) 1833-0119 William Alfred Freret* architect/ son of mayor William Freret - New Orleans, LA USA (1911/78) 1833-0126 Frans Mörtengren* soldier/ poet - Oulu, GD of Finland (1862/29) 1833-0128 Charles George Gordon* army officer/ administrator - London, England (1885/51) 1833-0131 1833-0201 1833-0203 Abu Bakar of Johor* the 1st Sultan of Modern Johor - Istana Lama, Singapore, Straits Settlements (1895/62) 1833-0206 J. E. B. Stuart* Confederate States Army general - Patrick County, VA USA (1864/31) 1833-0207 Ricardo Palma* author/ librarian/politician - Lima, Peru (1919/86) 1833-0210 1833-0219 Élie Ducommun* tutor/ journalist/peace activist/N - Geneva, Switzerland (1906) 1833-0223 Evert Wasastjerna* engineer/ railroad exectuive - Maalahti, GD of Finland (1930/97) 1833-0228 Alfred von Schlieffen* field marshal/strategist - Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Confederation (1913/79) 1833-0301 Johan Axel Gripenberg* officer/ statesman/governor - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1918/85) 1833-0304 William Henry Johnson* free African American/the personal valet of Abraham Lincoln - USA (1864/30) 1833-0310 Pedro Antonio de Alarcón* writer - Granada, Spain (1891/58) 1833-0314 Lucy Hobbs Taylor* school teacher/dentist - Constable, NY USA (1910/77) 1833-0323 Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal* psychiatrist - Berlin, Germany (1890/) 1833-0401 1833-0406 Luis Cordero Crespo* politician/14th President of Ecuador - Déleg, Cañar, Ecuador (1912/78) 1833-0411 Fredrik von Otter* Swedish naval officer/politician/PM - Fägred, Sweden-Norway (1910/76) 1833-0417 Jean-Baptiste Accolay* Belgian violinist/conductor/composer - Brussels (1900/67) 1833-0430 1833-0501 1833-0505 Ferdinand von Richthofen* explorer/ geographer/scientist - Carlsruhe, Prussian Silesia (1905/72) 1833-0507 Johannes Brahms* composer/pianist - Hamburg, Germany (1897/63) 1833-0512 Jaakko Länkelä* teacher/writer of schoolbooks/entrepreneur - Revonlahti, GD of Finland (1916/82) 1833-0520 1833-0526 Edward William Godwin* architect/ designer - Bristol, England (1886/53) 1833-0531 1833-0601 John Marshall Harlan* lawyer/ politician - Boyle County, KY USA (1911/78) 1833-0612 James B. Weaver* politician/ presidential candidate - Dayton, OH USA (1912/78) 1833-0620 Léon Bonnat* painter - Bayonne, Kingdom of France (1922/89) 1833-0624 Gustaf Åkerhielm* landowner/ politician/PM - Stockholm, Sweden (1900/66) 1833-0630 1833-0701 Anders Herman Chydenius* journalist/ politician - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1896/62) 1833-0711 Gustaf Reinhold Granqvist** father of Olga Olivia Kivi - GD of Finland (1880/46) 1833-0726 Gheorghe Manu* Romanian Army general/artillery inspector/statesman/PM - Bucharest, Wallachia (1911/77) 1833-0727 Thomas George Bonney* geologist - Rugeley, Staffordshire, England (1923/90) 1833-0801 1833-0816 Eliza Ann Otis* (b Wetherby) journalist/ philanthropist/co-founder of the Los Angeles Times - Walpole, NH USA (1904/71) 1833-0820 Benjamin Harrison* politician /23usp - North Bend, OH USA (1901/67) 1833-0828 Edward Burne-Jones* painter/ designer - Birmingham, England (1898/64) 1833-0830 1833-0902 Henry Hotze* Swiss-American propagandist for the Confederate States of America - Zug, Switzerland (1887/53) 1833-0910 Émile Duployé* author of the Duployan shorthand technique - Liesse-Notre-Dame, Kingdom of France (1912/78) 1833-0919 Johan Björkman* (b Juho Pirttimaa) carpenter/photographer - Tornio, GD of Finland (1892/58) 1833-0920 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta* journalist/revolutionary soldier/ peace activist/N - Milan, Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia (1918/84) 1833-0922 Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino* Romanian lawyer/politician/PM - Romania (1913/79) 1833-0930 Matthew Quay* politician - Dillsburg, PA USA (1904/70) 1833-1001 1833-1002 William Corby* Catholic priest/president of the University of Notre Dame - Detroit, MI USA (1897/64) 1833-1002 Lars Johan Hammarén* wholesale merchant/industrialist/politician - Loimaa, GD of Finland (1906/72) 1833-1020 Mary F. Eastman* educator/ writer/suffragist - Lowell, MA USA (1908/75) 1833-1021 Alfred Nobel* Swedish chemist/ inventor of dynamite/bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prize - Stockholm, Sweden-Norway (1896/63) 1833-1023 Antonio Flores Jijón* politician/13th President of Ecuador - Quito, Ecuador (1915/81) 1833-1030 1833-1104 Stephen Wäkevä* Finnish silversmith/Fabergé workmaster -Säkkijärvi, Russian Empire (1910/c.77) 1833-1106 Jonas Lie* novelist/poet/ playwright - Hokksund, Eiker, Norway (1908/74) 1833-1112 Alexander Borodin* composer/doctor/chemist - Saint Petersburg, Russia (1887/53) 1833-1113 Edwin Booth* actor/ brother of JWB - Bel Air, MD USA (1893/59) 1833-1115 1833-1119 F. L. Calonius* architect - Porvoo, GD of Finland (1903/70) 1833-1119 Eliza Lynch* the mistress-wife of Francisco Solano López, president of Paraguay - Cork, Ireland (1886/52) 1833-1121 Eugène Manet* painter/brother of Édouard Manet - Paris, Kingdom of France (1892/58) 1833-1130 1833-1201 1833-1207 Rodrigo Augusto da Silva* journalist/ lawyer/politician - São Paulo, Empire of Brazil (1889/55) 1833-1210 Ellen Anckarsvärd* women’s rights activist - Sweden (1898/64) 1833-1220 1833-1222 Marko Vovchok* (b Mariya Vilinskаya) Ukrainian writer - Yekaterininskoye Selo, Russian Empire (1907/73) 1833-1227 Larin Paraske* (b Paraskeva Nikitina) Izhorian oral poet/Jean Sibelius being one of her listerners - Lempäälä, Ingria, Russian Empire (1904/70) 1833-1228 Hilda Stadius* opera singer/teacher - Sortavala, GD of Finland (1924/90) 1833-1231 1833-0 1833-0 1833-0 Updated 2025-0501 Helsinki Search for another year here