Events in year of 1823
- 01-27President Monroe appoints 1st US ambassadors to South America
- 03-111st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vermont
- 04-22Baltic Club (Exchange) forms in London
- 04-22R J Tyers patents roller skates
- 05-08"Home Sweet Home" 1st sung (London)
- 05-101st steamboat to navigate the Mississippi River arrives at Ft Snelling
- 06-16King Willem I opens shipyard at Rotterdam-Antwerp
- 07-019th Postmaster General: John McLean of Ohio takes office
- 07-01United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico
- 07-14Switzerland signs boundaries for fugitives
- 09-10Simon Bolivar named President of Peru
- 09-21Moroni 1st appears to Joseph Smith, according to Smith
- 10-05Weber visits Beethoven
- 10-12Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling raincoats (Macs)
- 11-12Great North Holland Canal (Amsterdam) opens
- 12-02President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine"
- 12-13Gioacchino Rossini arrives in London
- 12-19Georgia passes 1st US state birth registration law
- 12-20Franz Schuberts "Ballet-Musik aus Rosamunde, " premieres in Vienna
- 12-23"Visit from St. Nicholas" by C Moore published in Troy (NY) Sentinel
People born in year of 1823
- 01-03Jaak-Nikolaas Lemmens: Flemish composer
- 01-04Otto van Rees: Governor-General of Dutch-Indies (1884-88)
- 01-04Peter Joseph Osterhaus: Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1917
- 01-05William Rockstro: Composer
- 01-08Alfred Russel Wallace: British zoologist / co-discoverer (evolution)
- 01-21Alexandre Edouard Goria: Composer
- 01-27Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo: France -- Composer (Symphonie Espagnole)
- 01-29Franklin Gardner: Major General (Confederate Army)
- 02-07Richard Genee: Composer
- 02-15Li Hung-Tshang: Chinese rebel leader / Viceroy of Tsheli Canton
- 02-16John Daniel Imboden: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
- 02-27Ferdinand Van Derveer: Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
- 02-27William Buel Franklin: Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
- 02-28Ernest Renan: French philosopher / historian / Scholar of religion
- 03-12William Flank Perry: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
- 03-14Roswell Sabine Ripley: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1887
- 03-16William Henry Monk: Composer
- 03-19Cornelis A van Sypesteyn: Dutch Governor of Surinam (1873-82)
- 03-20John Echols: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
- 03-23Schuyler Colfax: (R) 17th VP (1869-73)
- 03-25William Thompson Martin: Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
- 03-27Samuel Kosciusko Zook: Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
- 03-30Joseph Farmer Knipe: Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1901
- 04-01Simon Bolivar Buckner: Lieutenant General (Confederate Army), died in 1914
- 04-03William Macy "Boss" Tweed: Corrupt political boss (NYC)
- 04-04Karl Wilhelm Siemens: Inventor (laid undersea cables)
- 04-04Robert Byington Mitchell: Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
- 04-06Joseph Medill: St. John, New Brunswick -- Newspaper editor (Chicago Tribune)
- 04-10Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb: Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
- 04-12Aleksandr Ostrovsky: Russian playwright (Artists & Admirers)
People died in year of 1823
- 01-17Zacharius Werner: German playwright, dies at 36
- 02-07Ann Radcliffe (Ward): English Poet / Author of horror novels, dies at 58
- 02-16Johann Gottfried Schict: Composer, dies at 69
- 02-26John P Kemble: English actor / director (Covent Garden), dies at 66
- 03-18Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Breval: Composer, dies at 69
- 03-24Cornelis van Foreest: Dutch mayor (Alkmaar), dies at 66
- 03-25Coelestin Jungbauer: Composer, dies at 75
- 05-15Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky: Composer, dies at 69
- 06-01Louis Nicholas Davout: French Field Marshal, dies at 53
- 08-03Jacob A Uitenhage de Mist: Dutch politician / colonial dir, dies at 74
- 08-20Pius VII [Luigi B Chiaramonti]: Pope (1800-23), dies at 83
- 09-17Abraham L Breguet: French clock maker, dies at 76
- 09-20Daniel Steibelt: Composer, dies at 57
- 10-26Josef Preindl: Composer, dies at 67
- 11-12Emmanuel Aloys Forster: Composer, dies at 75
- 12-03Joseph Pouteau: Composer, dies at 84
- 12-07Johann Gottlieb Schwencke: Composer, dies at 79
- 12-14Vincenzo Cuoco: Italian Historian (Naple revolution 1799), dies at 53
- 12-19Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel: Composer, dies at 67
- 12-24Philipp Christoph Kayser: Composer, dies at 68
Events in year of 1824
- 01-21Ashantees defeat British at Accra, West Africa
- 01-28William Kneass becomes 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40)
- 02-04J W Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to public
- 02-10Simon Bolivar named Dictator by the Congress of Peru
- 02-16Athenaeum founded
- 03-02Interstate commerce comes under federal control
- 03-07Meyerbeers opera "Il Crociati in Egitto, " premieres in Venice
- 03-11US War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs
- 03-17England and Netherlands sign a trade agreement
- 03-21Fire at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses
- 05-02Goethe visits Ettersberg (Buchenwald)
- 05-24Pope Leo XII proclaims a universal jubilee
- 05-26Brazil is recognized by US
- 06-08Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec
- 07-24Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson
- 08-14General Lafayette returns to US
- 08-15Freed American slaves forms country of Liberia
- 09-26Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) and lives
- 10-04Mexico becomes a Republic
- 10-21Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement (Yorkshire England)
- 10-231st steam locomotive is introduced
- 11-02Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Jackson beats J Q Adams
- 11-07St. Petersburg flood
- 11-15Series of fires kills 10 (Edinburgh Scotland)
- 11-19Storm causes St. Petersburg flood, killing 10,000
- 11-211st Jewish Reform congregation forms, Charleston, South Carolina
- 12-01House of Reps begins to end election deadlock between JQ Adams
- 12-01Jackson, WH Crawford and H Clay Adams eventually declared President
- 12-09Battle of Ayacucho (Candorcangui), Peru defeats Spain
- 12-16Great North Holland Canal opens
People born in year of 1824
- 01-07James Morrison Hawes: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1889
- 01-08Per August Olander: Composer
- 01-08William Wilkie Collins: English Novelist (Woman in White)
- 01-13Ignacy Marceli Komorowski: Composer
- 01-21Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson: Lieutenant General 2nd Corps (ANV, Confed)
- 01-22Josef Leopold Zvonar: Composer
- 01-29Karl von Perfall: Composer
- 02-03George Thomas "Tige" Anderson: Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
- 02-03Nathan George "Shanks" Evans: Brigadier General (Confederacy), died in 1868
- 02-07William Higgins: Discoverer (nature of spiral nebulae)
- 02-08Barnard Elliot Bee: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1861
- 02-10Samuel Plimsoll: Bristol, England -- Inventor (Plimsoll line for ships)
- 02-12Arya Samaj Maha Rishi Dayanand Sarsvati: Indian hindu leader
- 02-14Winfield Scott Hancock: Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
- 02-17William Farrar "Baldy" Smith: Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
- 02-19Constantine D Uschinsky: Russian educator
- 02-23Lewis Cass Hunt: Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
- 02-24John Crawford Vaughn: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1875
- 02-26Carlos Calvo: Arg diplomat / people rights Scholar (Calvo Clause)
- 02-28Charles Blondin: France -- Acrobat / aerialist
- 02-28John Creed Moore: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
- 03-02Bedrich Friedrich Smetana: Bohemian composer (Bartered Bride, Moldau)
- 03-02Henry Beebee Carrington: Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1912
- 03-05Elisha Harris: United States -- Physician / founder of the American Public Health Association
- 03-05James Merritt Ives: Lithographer (Currier & Ives)
- 03-09Leland Stanford: (Gov / Sen) / founder of Stanford University
- 03-10Thomas James Churchill: Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1905
- 03-12Gustav R Kirchoff: Prussia -- Physicist (spectral analysis)
- 03-15Branko Radicevic: Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising)
- 03-22William Henry Chase Whiting: Major General (Confederate Army)
People died in year of 1824
- 01-10Victor Emanuel I: King of Sardinia (1802-21), dies at 64
- 01-26Edward Jenner: Discoverer (vaccination)
- 01-29Louise MC Countess of Albany: Henegouws salon owner, dies at 71
- 02-01Maria Theresia von Paradis: Composer, dies at 64
- 02-08Rhijnvis Feith: Dutch mayor / writer (Zwolle, Julia), dies at 71
- 02-09Anna K Emmerick / Emmerich: German poet, dies at 49
- 02-22John Davy: Composer, dies at 60
- 03-03Giovanni Battista Viotti: Italian violist / composer, dies at 70
- 03-09Jacobus J Cramer: Priest of Holland / Zealand / Friesland, dies at 79
- 03-12Heinrich Carl Ebell: Composer, dies at 48
- 03-22Johann Melchior Dreyer: Composer, dies at 76
- 04-15Theodorus F van Capellen: Vice-admiral (Algiers), dies at 61
- 04-18Edward Jones: Composer, dies at 72
- 04-19George Gorden Noel "Lord" Byron: Poet, dies at 36
- 04-24Herman Muntinghe: Theologist (History of Mankind), dies at 71
- 05-15Alexander Campbell: Composer, dies at 60
- 06-18Ferdinand III JJ-B: Archduke of Austria / ruler of Toscane, dies at 55
- 07-20Joan M Kemper: Lawyer (layed-out Civil Code)
- 08-21John Taylor: Philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70
- 08-21Santiago Ferrer: Composer, dies at 62
- 09-16Louis XVIII SX: Earl of Province / King of France (1814-24)
- 09-17Giacomo Tritto: Composer, dies at 91
- 11-30Johann Georg Christoph Schetky: Composer, dies at 87
- 12-25Barbara Krudener: Mystic visionary who renounced nobility, dies at 60
Events in year of 1825
- 01-03Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community
- 01-19Ezra Daggett and nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans
- 01-251st US engineering college opens, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy, New York
- 02-03Dutch North Sea coast floods
- 02-05Hannah Lord Montague of New York creates 1st detachable shirt collar
- 02-09House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US President
- 02-12Creek Indian treaty signed. Tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the government and migrate west by September 1, 1826
- 02-22Russia and Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary
- 03-021st grand opera in US sung in English, New York City
- 03-04John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th President
- 04-101st hotel in Hawaii opens
- 04-1933 patriotic exiles return to Uruguay
- 05-20Charles X becomes King of France
- 05-21Prince Willem FK marries Louise AWA of Prussia
- 05-25American Unitarian Association founded
- 06-04Unseasonable hurricane hits New York City
- 06-13Walter Hunt patents safety pin
- 06-20Coronation of French King Charles X the Bourbon
- 07-21Java Princess Dipo Negoro / Mangkubumi declare war on all non-islamics
- 08-06Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day)
- 08-14Dutch King Willem I throws foreign students out
- 08-25Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day)
- 09-27Railroad transportation is born with 1st track (Stockton-Darlington)
- 10-171st French Liszts operette Don Sanche premieres in Paris
- 10-25Erie Canal opens, linking Great Lakes and Atlantic Ocean
- 10-26Erie Canal between Hudson River and Lake Erie opened
- 11-261st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY))
- 11-291st Italian opera in US, "Barber of Seville" premieres (NYC)
- 12-06President John Adams suggests establishment of a US observatory
- 12-14Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins
People born in year of 1825
- 01-10Alexander Travis Hawthorn: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
- 01-12Joseph Robert Davis: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
- 01-28George Edward Pickett: Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1875
- 02-07Crystobal Oudrid y Segura: Composer
- 02-26Hans Balatka: Composer
- 02-28Quincy Adams Gillmore: Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1888
- 03-05John Dunovant: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
- 03-05Joseph Albert: German photographer (albertotype)
- 03-08George William Martin: Composer
- 03-17Rodolphe Bresdin: French cartoonist / lithographer (Le Bon Samaritain)
- 03-20William Nelson Rector Beall: Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
- 03-23Edward Lloyd Thomas: Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1898
- 03-30Samuel Bell Maxey: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
- 04-03Adolf Rzepko: Composer
- 04-05David Rumph "Neighbor" Jones: Major General (Confederate Army)
- 04-11Ferdinand Lassalle: French politician / founder (Allgemeiner)
- 04-25Charles Ferdinand Dowd: United States -- Standardized time zones
- 04-28James Winning McMillan: Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
- 05-01George Inness: US landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap)
- 05-04Thomas Henry Huxley: Scientist / humanist / Darwinist
- 05-06Joseph Bailey: Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
- 05-10Rudolf Viole: Composer
- 05-20Antoinette Brown Blackwell: Clergy (1st ordained US female minister)
- 05-21George Lafayette Beal: Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
- 05-26Felipe Gutierrez y Espinoza: Composer
- 05-29David Bell Birney: Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
- 06-01John Hunt Morgan: Brigadier General (Confederate cavalry commander)
- 06-05Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry: Georgia, United States -- Educator (Rep-Ala, 1857-61)
- 06-07Richard D Blackmore: England, United Kingdom -- Author (Norie, Lorna Doone)
- 06-12John Cook: Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1910
People died in year of 1825
- 02-05Pierre Gaveaux: Composer, dies at 64
- 02-10Paul van Hemert: Dutch Theologist / philosopher (Kant), dies at 68
- 02-16George Gerson: Composer, dies at 34
- 02-24Thomas Bowdler: Self-appointed Shakespearean censor
- 03-24Giovanni Domenico Perotti: Composer, dies at 64
- 03-25Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck: Dutch patriot / earl, dies at 63
- 04-13Josef Gelinek: Composer, dies at 66
- 04-16John Henry Fuseli: Painter / art writer (Tracks in the Snow), dies at 84
- 05-07Antonio Salieri: Italian composer, dies at 74 in Vienna, Austria
- 05-12Elias Mann: Composer, dies at 75
- 05-12Stanislao Mattei: Composer, dies at 75
- 05-22Domenico Corri: Composer, dies at 80
- 06-09M Pauline Bonaparte: Corsican Duchess of Parma / Guastalla, dies at 44
- 06-11Daniel D Tompkins: 6th US Vice President (1817-25), dies at 54
- 06-13Johan Peter Melchior: German sculptor, dies at 82
- 07-20Joseph-Denis Doche: Composer, dies at 58
- 07-29Micah Hawkins: Composer, dies at 48
- 08-03Ambrogio Minoja: Composer, dies at 72
- 08-20Richard Wainwright: Composer, dies at 68
- 08-23Amos Bull: Composer, dies at 81
- 10-13Maximiliaan I Jozef: King of Bayern
- 10-17Peter Winter: Composer, dies at 71
- 11-01Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa: Composer, dies at 49
- 11-14Jean Paul: Writer, dies at 62
- 11-19Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek: Composer, dies at 34
- 11-22Ann Bailey: Pioneer
- 12-01Aleksandr I P Romanov: Czar of Russia (1801-25), dies at 47
- 12-29Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini: Composer
- 12-29Jacques-Louis David: French Painter (Death of Marat), dies at 77
- 12-30Peter Gronland: Composer, dies at 64