* 1823 – Joseph Medill, American editor, publisher, and politician ( d. 1899 )

* 1823 – Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian playwright ( d. 1886 )

* 1823 – Goldwin Smith, English-Canadian historian and journalist ( d. 1910 )

* 1823 – Gotthold Eisenstein, German mathematician ( d. 1852 )

* 1740 – Pope Pius VII ( d. 1823 )

Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS ( 8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913 ) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist.

* 1759 – Jacques Widerkehr, Alsatian composer and cellist ( d. 1823 )

* 1772 – David Ricardo, English political economist ( d. 1823 )

* Mike Fink ( c. 1770 / 1780 – c. 1823 ) called " king of the keelboaters ", was a semi-legendary brawler and river boatman who exemplified the tough and hard-drinking men who ran keelboats up and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

* 1823 – Hugh Stowell Brown, English minister ( d. 1886 )

During 1823 – 1931 the grown settlement was known as Ust-Abakanskoye, 1914 – 1925: Abakan, 1925 – 1931: Khakassk.

* 1743 – Edmund Cartwright, English clergyman and inventor of the power loom ( d. 1823 )

* 1823 – Jacques Charles, French chemist ( b. 1746 )

* 1889 – Youssef Karam, Lebanese nationalist leader ( b. 1823 )

* Pope Pius VII ( 1742 – 1823, r. 1800 – 23 )

The construction commenced around the courtyard with the East Wing ( The King's Library ) in 1823 – 1828, followed by the North Wing in 1833 – 1838, which originally housed among other galleries a reading room, now the Wellcome Gallery.

#** Constance Marie Bonaparte ( 1823 – 1876 )

One Pipiolo leader from the south, Ramón Freire, rode in and out of the presidency several times ( 1823 – 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830 ) but could not sustain his authority.

* Terence MacManus ( c. 1823 – 1861 ), leader in Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848

In eight years of active service as an officer, he served two and a half years in a surveying ship in the Mediterranean ( 1818 – 21 ), one and a half years in a surveying sloop in the English Channel and off the coast of Ireland ( 1823 – 24 ), and one and a half years as Surveyor of the frigate during a voyage ( 1824 – 26 ) to and from the Hawaiian Islands ( then known as the " Sandwich islands ").

* Davis, David Brion, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770 – 1823 ( 1999 ); The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture ( 1988 )

* Joseph Bloomfield ( 1753 – 1823 ), Captain in Revolutionary War, New Jersey Attorney General, Chief Justice of the New Jersey Vice-Admiralty Court, president of the first Society for the Abolition of Slavery, Mayor from 1795 to 1800, Governor of New Jersey ( 1801 – 1802 and 1803 – 1812 ), a Brigadier General in the War of 1812 and U. S. Representative from 1817 to 1821.

The first Anti-Slavery Society was founded in 1823 and was committed to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire, which was substantially achieved in 1838 under the terms of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

After 1823, when the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery ( later the Anti-Slavery Society ) was formed, Clarkson again travelled around the country.

He helped found the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery ( later the Anti-Slavery Society ) in 1823, and was editor of its publication, the Anti-Slavery Reporter.

Edward Coles and the Vote to Forbid Slavery in Illinois, 1823 – 1824.

* Elihu B. Washburn, Sketch of Edward Coles, Second Governor of Illinois, and the Slavery Struggle of 1823 – 24.

He helped found the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery ( later the Anti-Slavery Society ) in 1823.

In March 1823, Alcott wrote to his brother: " Peddling is a hard place to serve God, but a capital one to serve Mammon.

An English example is William Hazlitt's Liber Amoris ( 1823 ), a painful examination of the writer's love-life.

Another early reference reports that " base ball " was regularly played on Saturdays in 1823 on the outskirts of New York City in an area that today is Greenwich Village.

The latter name is derived from a hatter's shop which was situated in front of one of the first bus stations in Nantes, France in 1823.

* Margaret Maria Gordon ( 1823 – 1907 ) wrote a book on Brewster, which is considered the most comprehensive description of his life.

In December 1823, he wrote: " This is the last picture I want to paint, but I want to surpass myself in it.

The term feudalism is recent, first appearing in French in 1823, Italian in 1827, English in 1839, and in German in the second half of the nineteenth century.

He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1823, and the largest crater in the Moon's Mare Serenitatis is named Bessel after him.

The family moved to Ankershagen in 1823 ( today in their house is the museum of Heinrich Schliemann ).

It rises among the Ucayali highlands, and is navigable and unobstructed for a distance of 1133 miles ( 1823 km ) above its junction with the Amazon.

* May 24 is remembered and celebrated in Ecuador as the day of the Battle of Pichincha – May 24, 1823.

The Angel Moroni () is, in Mormonism, an angel that visited Joseph Smith, Jr. on numerous occasions, beginning on September 21, 1823.

The paradox is commonly attributed to the German amateur astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers, who described it in 1823, but Harrison shows convincingly that Olbers was far from the first to pose the problem, nor was his thinking about it particularly valuable.

This very brief description from 1823 is not an accurate depiction of the process.

William Webb Ellis is often credited with the invention of running with the ball in hand in 1823 at Rugby School when he allegedly caught the ball while playing football and ran towards the opposition goal.

The origin of rugby football is reputed to be an incident during a game of English school football at Rugby School in 1823 when William Webb-Ellis is said to have picked up the ball and run with it.

Thomas Young's work is acknowledged in Champollion's 1822 Lettre à M. Dacier, but incompletely, according to British critics: for example, James Browne, a sub-editor on the Encyclopædia Britannica ( which had published Young's 1819 article ), contributed anonymously a series of review articles to the Edinburgh Review in 1823, praising Young's work highly and alleging that the " unscrupulous " Champollion plagiarised it.

* 1823 – Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.

Pa. 1823 ), the federal circuit court held that privileges and immunities in respect of which discrimination is barred include

The current clad version is two layers of cupronickel ( 75 % Copper, 25 % Nickel ) on a core of pure copper giving a total composition of 8. 33 % Ni with the remainder Cu, weighs 5. 670 grams ( 0. 2000 avoirdupois oz, 0. 1823 troy oz ), diameter 0. 955 inches ( 24. 26 mm ), width 1. 75 millimeters ( 0. 069 in ) with a reeded edge.

* September 10, 1823 – Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.

* 1823 – Olbers ' paradox is described by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers.

* February 3, 1823 – Gioachino Rossini's Semiramide is first performed.