In the year 1823, the first worldwide carnival parade takes place in Cologne, Prussia (Feb 10), gold is found in Australia, predating the gold rushes from 1851 on (Feb 15), 11-year old Franz Liszt gives a concert and is personally congratulated by Beethoven (Apr 13), Demerara rebellion in British Guiana takes place (Aug 18), Simón Bolivar becomes President of Peru (Sep 10), the medical journal Lancet is founded in London (Oct 5), rugby is invented (Nov),James Monroe introduces the Monroe Doctrine in his State of the Union address (Dec 2), work begins on the British Museum in London - and all these fine people were born:
1823-0101 Sándor Petófi* (b Petrovics) Hungary’s national poet/liberal revolutionary - Kiskőrös, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (1849/26) 1823-0103 Robert Whitehead* engineer/inventor of the first effective self-propelled naval torpedo - Bolton, Lancashire, England (1905/82) 1823-0127 Édouard Lalo* composer - Lille, France (1892/69) 1823-0203 Spencer Fullerton Baird* ornithologist/ herpetologist/museum curator - Reading, PA USA (1887/64) 1823-0227 Rudolf Lagi* organist/ composer - Kuopio, GD of Finland (1868/45) 1823-0228 Ernest Renan* philosopher/philologist/historian - Tréguier, Brittany, France (1892/69) 1823-0228 Carl August Renvall* schoolteacher/ journalist/translator - Turku, GD of Finland (1853/30) 1823-0303 Gyula Andrássy* statesman/PM - Oláhpatak, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (1890/66) 1823-0323 Schuyler Colfax* journalist/businessman/ politician - New York City, NY USA (1885/61) 1823-0331 William Hart* Scottish-American painter/to U.S. at age 8 - Paisley, Scotland (1894/71) 1823-0404 William Siemens* German-British engineer/entrepreneur/brother of Werner von Siemens - Gehrden, Lower Saxony (1883/60) 1823-0416 Gotthold Eisenstein* mathematician - Berlin, Prussia (1852/29) 1823-0510 John Sherman* lawyer/ politician - Lancaster, OH USA (1900/77) 1823-0526 William Pryor Letchworth* businessman/ philanthropist - Brownville, NY USA (1910/87) 1823-0621 Jean Chacornac* astronomer - Lyon, France (1873/50) 1823-0628 Hanna Sofia Falkman* Finnish opera singer - Stockholm, Sweden (1882/) 1823-0706 Sophie Adlersparre* feminist/founder of the first women’s magazine in Scandinavia - Helgerum, Sweden (1895/71) 1823-0707 Robert Goodsir* physician/explorer/made two voyages to the Arctic in search of his brother who had disappeared there - Anstruther, Fife, Scotland (1895/71) 1823-0709 Phineas Gage* railroad worker/improbable survivor of a bizarre accident - Grafton County, NH USA (1860/36) 1823-0810 Francis Parkman* historian/writer - Boston, MA USA (1893/70) 1823-0811 Charlotte Yonge* novelist - Otterbourne, Hampshire, England (1901/77) 1823-0909 Joseph Leidy* anatomist/paleontologist/ parasitologist - Philadelphia, PA USA (1891/67) 1823-0916 Mihailo Obrenović* Prince of Serbia - Kragujevac, Principality of Serbia (1868/44) 1823-0925 Alexander Georg Weilin* Russian language teacher/co-founder of printing company Weilin+Göös - Savonlinna, GD of Finland (1889/65) 1823-1008 Ivan Aksakov* journalist/ Slavophile - Nadezhdino, Orenburg Governorate Russian Empire (1886/62) 1823-1023 Carl Gustaf Borg* teacher/ writer/translator - Vihanti, GD of Finland (1895/71) 1823-1108 Joseph Monier* gardener/co-inventor of reinforced concrete - Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie, France (1906/82) 1823-1121 Andrzej Jerzy Mniszech* Polish painter/art collector - Vyshnivets (1905/81) 1823-1209 Rosalie Olivecrona* feminist activist/writer - Stockholm, Sweden (1898/74) 1823-1213 Ferdinand Büchner* German flautist/composer - Bad Pyrmont, Lower Saxony (1906/82) Updated 15.12.2022-2 Search for another year here