February – Robert Owen organizes the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union in the United Kingdom. March 6 – York, Upper Canada, is incorporated as Toronto. March 11 – United States Survey of the Coast transferred to the Department of the Navy. March 14 – John Herschel discovers the open cluster of stars now known as NGC 3603, observing from the Cape of Good Hope. March 27 – Andrew Jackson is censured by the Congress of the United States (expunged in 1837). April 14 – The Whig Party is officially named by United States Senator Henry Clay. August 1 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833). October 16 – The Palace of Westminster is destroyed by fire. Charles Babbage begins the conceptual design of an analytical engine, a mechanical forerunner of the modern computer. It will not be built in his lifetime. Thomas Davenport, the inventor of the first American DC electrical motor, installs his motor in a small model car, creating one of the first electric cars. The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad is chartered in Wilmington, North Carolina. Romanian language is banned in schools and government facilities in Bessarabia
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