1823

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1790s  1800s  1810s  – 1820s –  1830s  1840s  1850s
Years:	1820 1821 1822 – 1823 – 1824 1825 1826

1823 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Sports – Rail Transport

Countries:     Australia – Canada – China – France – Germany – Ireland – Mexico – Netherlands – New Zealand – Norway – South Africa – Spain – UK – USA

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

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 – Gioachino Rossini's Semiramide is first performed.
• March 19 – Agustin de Iturbide, Emperor of Mexico, abdicate thus ending the short lived First Mexican Empire.
• April 13 – Eleven-year-old Franz Liszt gives a concert after which he is personally congratulated by Ludwig van Beethoven.
• June 5 – Raffles Institution, then the Singapore Institution, was founded by the founder of Singapore, Sir Stamford Raffles.
• July 1– The congress of Central America declares absolute independence from Spain, Mexico, and any other foreign nation, including North America and a Republican system of government is established.
• July 15 – The Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome is almost completely destroyed by fire.
• September 10 – Simón Bolívar is 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.
• December 2 – James Monroe first introduces the Monroe Doctrine in the State of the Union Address, declaring that any European attempts to recolonize the Americas would be considered a hostile act towards the United States.
• 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 "invents" Rugby football.

Births

1823 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1823 MDCCCXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2576
Armenian calendar	1272 ԹՎ ՌՄՀԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-21 – -20
Bengali calendar	1230
Berber calendar	2773
Buddhist calendar	2367
Burmese calendar	1185
Byzantine calendar	7331 – 7332
Chinese calendar	壬午年十一月二十日 (4459/4519-11-20) — to — 癸未年十一月三十日 (4460/4520-11-30)
Coptic calendar	1539 – 1540
Ethiopian calendar	1815 – 1816
Hebrew calendar	5583 – 5584
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1879 – 1880
- 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
• July 6 – Sophie Adlersparre, Swedish feminist (d. 1895)
• 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, U.S. 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)