1823

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Years:	1820 1821 1822 - 1823 - 1824 1825 1826

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Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

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).

Contents 1 Events of 1823 1.1 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] 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
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• 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)

See also Category: 1823 births.

[edit] 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)
• February 21 - Charles Wolfe, Irish Poet (b. 1791)
• 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)

See also Category: 1823 deaths.