1823

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).

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Events of 1823

January - March

April - June

July - September

October - December

Undated

Births

January - June

July - December

Deaths

January - June

July - December

Events of 1823

January - March

★ February 3 - First representation of Gioachino Rossini's ''Semiramide''

April - June

★ April 13 - Eleven-year-old Franz Liszt gives a concert after which he is personally congratulated by Ludwig van Beethoven.

July - September

★ 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.

October - December

★ 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 october1875.

★ December 2 - Monroe Doctrine: USA separates the spheres of influence between Europe and the Americas.

Undated

★ Ferdinand VII revokes the Spanish Constitution of 1812 and restores absolute monarchy (See also Mid-nineteenth century Spain)

★ 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.

Births

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, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1861)

★ May 22 - Solomon Bundy, American politician (d. 1889)

★ June 21 - Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (d. 1873)

July - December

★ 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)

★ James Black, American temperance movement leader (d 1893)
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Deaths

January - June

★ 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

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★ Charles François Dumouriez, French general (b. 1739)

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★ 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)

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)
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