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). [edit] 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.
- 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: The USA separates the spheres of influence between Europe and the Americas, forbidding any further European colonization.
[edit] Undated [edit] Births - 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)
[edit] 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
- 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)
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