January 22 – By secret treaty signed at the
Congress of Verona, the
Quintuple Alliance gives France a mandate to invade
Spain for the purpose of restoring
Ferdinand VII (who has been captured by armed revolutionary liberals) as absolute monarch of the country.
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.
August 16 – Tsar
Alexander I of Russia draws up a secret "manifesto", designating his second younger brother
Nikolai to succeed him, bypassing Nikolai's older brother,
Grand Duke Konstantin. The existence of the manifesto is revealed on Alexander's death in 1825.[15]
August 18 –
Demerara rebellion of 1823: In British Guiana (South America), an insurrection of 10,000 black slaves begins; it is suppressed after three days, but hundreds of suspects are executed in the reprisals that follow.[16]
August 24 –
Hugh Glass gets mauled by a sow grizzly while on a fur trapping expedition in the Missouri Territory and has to crawl 200 miles for help.[18]
August 31 –
Battle of Trocadero: French infantry of the "Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis" capture the fort of Trocadero and turn its guns on
Cádiz.
November 3 – An explosion at the Rainton Colliery Company's Plain Pit mine at
Chilton Moor in the north-east of England, kills at least 57 coal miners.[19]
Ernest Renan, French philosopher, philologist, historian and writer (d. 1892)
March 3 –
John George Adair, Scots-Irish businessman and landowner; also known as "Black Jack" for his eviction of 244 people in 1861; financier of
JA Ranch (d. 1885)
^"Fires, Great", in Walford, Cornelius, ed. The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance. C. & E. Layton, 1876. p.71.
January 22 – By secret treaty signed at the
Congress of Verona, the
Quintuple Alliance gives France a mandate to invade
Spain for the purpose of restoring
Ferdinand VII (who has been captured by armed revolutionary liberals) as absolute monarch of the country.
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.
August 16 – Tsar
Alexander I of Russia draws up a secret "manifesto", designating his second younger brother
Nikolai to succeed him, bypassing Nikolai's older brother,
Grand Duke Konstantin. The existence of the manifesto is revealed on Alexander's death in 1825.[15]
August 18 –
Demerara rebellion of 1823: In British Guiana (South America), an insurrection of 10,000 black slaves begins; it is suppressed after three days, but hundreds of suspects are executed in the reprisals that follow.[16]
August 24 –
Hugh Glass gets mauled by a sow grizzly while on a fur trapping expedition in the Missouri Territory and has to crawl 200 miles for help.[18]
August 31 –
Battle of Trocadero: French infantry of the "Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis" capture the fort of Trocadero and turn its guns on
Cádiz.
November 3 – An explosion at the Rainton Colliery Company's Plain Pit mine at
Chilton Moor in the north-east of England, kills at least 57 coal miners.[19]
Ernest Renan, French philosopher, philologist, historian and writer (d. 1892)
March 3 –
John George Adair, Scots-Irish businessman and landowner; also known as "Black Jack" for his eviction of 244 people in 1861; financier of
JA Ranch (d. 1885)
^"Fires, Great", in Walford, Cornelius, ed. The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance. C. & E. Layton, 1876. p.71.