Significant Events
- Jul 2 Bahia Independence Day: the end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia
- Dec 2 President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine", a US foreign policy regarding Latin America
World Leaders in 1823
James Monroe
5th US President
Louis XVIII
King of France
Robert Jenkinson
British Prime Minister
Famous People in 1823
Franz Schubert
Composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer
Alfred Russel Wallace
Boss Tweed
Mackenzie Bowell
Mary Ann Shadd CaryFamous Deaths
- Jan 5 Major George Johnston, Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales (b. 1764)
- Jan 17 Zacharius Werner, German playwright, dies at 36
- Jan 21 Cayetano José RodrÃguez, Argentine cleric, journalist and poet (b. 1761)
- Jan 26 Edward Jenner, English physician, father of immunology, pioneered smallpox vaccinations, dies at 73
- Feb 7 Ann Radcliffe, English Gothic novelist (The Romance of the Forest), dies at 58