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What Happened in September 1833

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Historical Events

  • Sep 3 New York Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper)
  • Sep 4 1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty, 10 years old by the NY Sun)

Darwin Arrives in Buenos Aires

Sep 20 Charles Darwin arrives in Buenos Aires after travelling through the Argentine interior with guachos

Naturalist Charles Darwin
Events in 1833

Famous Birthdays

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (1833-1918)

Sep 20 Italian journalist, soldier and pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1907), born in Milan, Lombardy

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
  • Sep 21 Josef Richard Rozkošný, Czech composer, born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia (now Czech Republic) (d. 1913)
  • Sep 22 Stephen Dill Lee, American 1st president of Mississippi State University, Lt General in Confederate Army, born in Charleston, South Carolina (d. 1908)
  • Sep 24 Henry Alanson Barnum, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Jamesville, New York (d. 1892)
  • Sep 28 James Deering Fessenden, American lawyer, politician, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Westbrook, Maine (d. 1862)
  • Sep 30 Ferdinand von Saar, Austrian novelist, playwright and poet, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1906)
Born in 1833

Famous Deaths

  • Sep 27 Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu reformer who helped found Brahmo Sabha, a social-religious reform movement, dies at 61
  • Sep 28 Lemuel Haynes, American clergyman (1st black man ordained as a minister in the US) and Revolutionary War veteran, dies at 88

Ferdinand VII (1784-1833)

Sep 29 King of Spain (1808, 1813-33) who lost nearly all of Spain's possessions in Latin America, dies at 48

Ferdinand VII



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