1823

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Year 1823 (MDCCCXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1823

  • February 3 - First representation of Gioachino Rossini's Semiramide
  • April 13 - Eleven-year-old Franz Liszt gives a concert after which he is personally congratulated by Ludwig van Beethoven.
  • July 15 - Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome almost completely destroyed by fire
  • September 10 - Simón Bolívar 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.
  • September 28 - Pope Leo XII succeeds Pope Pius VII as the 252nd pope.
  • November 15 - Chief Lone Horn, succeeds (probably) his father, and becomes chief of the Minneconjou Sioux; he will be chief until his death on 16 October 1875.
  • December 2 - Monroe Doctrine: USA separates the spheres of influence between Europe and the Americas.

Undated

  • Orford Parish of East Hartford, Connecticut separates and is incorporated as the Town of Manchester by a special act of the Connecticut General Assembly.
  • Ferdinand VII revokes the Spanish Constitution of 1812 and restores absolute monarchy (See also Mid-nineteenth century Spain)
  • Official adoption of the word 'Gallivant' by Merriam-Webster's Dictionary
  • The 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 credited with the birth of Rugby Union

Births

1823 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1823
MDCCCXXIII
Ab urbe condita 2576
Armenian calendar 1272
ԹՎ ՌՄՀԲ
Bahá'í calendar -21 – -20
Berber calendar 2773
Buddhist calendar 2367
Burmese calendar 1185
Chinese calendar 4459/4519-11-20
( 壬午年十一月二十日)
— to —
4460/4520-11-30
( 癸未年十一月三十日)
Coptic calendar 1539 – 1540
Ethiopian calendar 1815 – 1816
Hebrew calendar 5583 – 5584
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1878 – 1879
 - 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
  • 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, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1861)
  • May 22 - Solomon Bundy, American politician (d. 1889)
  • May 26 - William Pryor Letchworth, founder of Letchworth State Park
  • June 13 David Breakenridge Read,Mayor of Toronto,d.1904
  • June 21 - Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (d. 1873)
  • 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)
  • date unknown - James Black, American temperance movement leader (d. 1893)

Deaths

  • January 21 - Gideon Olin, US politician (b. 1743)
  • January 26 - Edward Jenner, English physician and medical researcher (b. 1749)
  • February 7 - Ann Radcliffe, English writer (b. 1764)
  • 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)
  • 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)
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