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

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 - First representation of Gioachino Rossini's Semiramide
• April 13 - Eleven-year-old Franz Liszt gives a concert after which he is personally congratulated by Ludwig van Beethoven.
• July 15 - Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome almost completely destroyed by fire
• September 10 - Simón Bolívar 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 october1875.
• December 2 - Monroe Doctrine: USA separates the spheres of influence between Europe and the Americas.

Undated

• Orford Parish of East Hartford, Connecticut separates and is incorporated as the Town of Manchester by a special act of the Connecticut General Assembly.
• Ferdinand VII revokes the Spanish Constitution of 1812 and restores absolute monarchy (See also Mid-nineteenth century Spain)
• Official adoption of the word 'Gallivant' by Merriam-Webster's Dictionary
• 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 credited with the birth of Rugby Union

Births

1823 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1823 MDCCCXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2576
Armenian calendar	1272 ԹՎ ՌՄՀԲ
Assyrian calendar	6573
Bahá'í calendar	-21–-20
Bengali calendar	1230
Berber calendar	2773
British Regnal year	3 Geo. 4 – 4 Geo. 4
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
- Vikram Samvat	1879–1880
- Shaka Samvat	1745–1746
- Kali Yuga	4924–4925
Holocene calendar	11823
Igbo calendar
- Ǹrí Ìgbò	823–824
Iranian calendar	1201–1202
Islamic calendar	1238–1239
Japanese calendar	Bunsei 6 (文政6年)
Juche calendar	N/A (before 1912)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4156
Minguo calendar	89 before ROC 民前89年
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
• 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, US politician (b. 1743)
• January 26 - Edward Jenner, English physician and medical researcher (b. 1749)
• February 7 - Ann Radcliffe, English writer (b. 1764)
• 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)