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1832
 
    
Mendelssohn's concert overture The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) has its premiere in London's Covent Garden       
1832
 
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The paddle steamer Alburkah becomes the first ocean-going iron ship, completing the journey from England to the Niger      
1832
 
   
French painter Eugène Delacroix begins a five-month visit to north Africa, with profound effects on his future art      
1832
 
    
20-year-old English artist Edward Lear publishes Family of the Psittacidae, a collection of his paintings of parrots       
Lear Parrot: ‘Microglossus aterrimus’ (detail) c.1830
Cecil Higgins Art Gallery

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1833
 
    
27-year-old Isambard Kingdom Brunel wins his first major appointment, as chief engineer to the Great Western railway       
1833
 
    
30-year-old Robert Stephenson is appointed chief engineer to the London and Birmingham railway       
1833
 
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Britain ejects the Argentinians from the Falklands and begins the process of settlement with British farmers      
1833
 
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Civil war breaks out in Spain between supporters of Ferdinand VII's three-year-old daughter, Isabella II, and of his brother Don Carlos        
1833
 
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Antonio López de Santa Anna begins the first of five spells as president of Mexico      
1833
 
    
Under the leadership of William Lloyd Garrison a society is formed in the USA calling for the immediate abolition of slavery